My contribution to Hydra Trash Anthology book 2016.
‘Memory’ chronicles decades of the Winter Soldier’s brainwashing. Reality and memory are blurred, twisted and snuffed out only to surface again when the Winter Soldier encounters the Man on the Bridge.
GUYZ I don’t usually reblog nsfw stuff here, but this comic is so amazing I just… wow. If you don’t like nsfw just sort of … let your eyes glaze over pg 3?
But like, check out all the fractured panel lines on the electroshock page. And Steve being slowly wiped out on pg 5. HEARTBREAKING. And just … all the echoes of Steve on every single page.
And the last panel! So hopeful! And omg Steve’s silhouette is still at the bottommmmmm!!!
When Bucky was missing in action, Steve thought he was dead. But it’s interesting to consider that Steve went missing, too, and Bucky didn’t know what had happened to him.
Steve signed up for a secret government experiment. I doubt they let him have contact with anyone he knew, or tell anyone where he was going. And when he became Captain America, his real identity was hidden. So Steve Rogers just disappeared. Letters from Steve must have abruptly stopped. Bucky would have thought something terrible had happened to Steve, like he was arrested for forging documents, or he picked a fight with the wrong person. Maybe Steve wrote Bucky once, to say he was accepted into the army, and then Bucky never received another letter. He would have assumed the worst.
In this moment, it looks like Bucky is realizing Steve is really alive.
Everyone writes Sam as the replacement Bucky but guys, Bucky is trying to go into hiding because there are now TWO Steves on the loose.
TWO of them.
The only thing that makes him seem relatively sane is the lack of super abilities but anyone who thinks it’s a reasonable idea to attach a LIVE JET ENGINE ten inches from his asshole is nOT SANE.
Bucky went into cryogenic sleep because there were two Steves on the loose. He spent an hour or two with Sam, saw where this was going, and was just like “I’m out.”
Those two are probably giving Clint an ulcer right now. And being a terrible influence on Scott and Wanda.
I wonder if anyone ever told Clint who T’Challa is. T’Challa seems like he actually would be a Responsible One, but he’s got his own country to deal with so he doesn’t usually get involved unless it’s potentially world ending.
They fix up Bucky within months of putting him under because Sam and Steve haven’t sat still for even like, ten??? minutes?
T’Challa raises him from the artic like uhm, you gonna need to go collect ya mans.
Bucky is like “Oh gOD what did Steve do????”
“No not that one, he’s been too Sad and Lost™ without you but the cute one has decided to try his hand at decentralizing the corrupt governance of Klaegia like, four hours plane ride south. Come on the jet’s already packed”
The Dora Milaje have to keep Bucky from smashing the refrost button to go back under he’s Done.
Sam Wilson met Steve THREE TIMES and was like, “oh you want to overthrow the American government great LET’S DO THIS.” Sam Wilson’s first act in that effort was to suggest that they steal his backpack jet, right from where he KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE, almost as if he’d kept his eye on it the whole time and was maybe, y’know, planning to nab it himself at some point. Sam Wilson never met a superassassin or a king or a government agent that he didn’t want to sass and antagonize.
Sam Wilson is not the Sane One. You have been lied to.
“no not that one”
L M A O ACTUALLY I HAVE AN ENTIRE SOULMATE AU THEORY BASED ON THE FACT THAT SAM AND STEVE ARE BASICALLY TWINSIES AND BUCKY SPENDS HIS ENTIRE LIFE LIKE “WHAT IF THAT RILEY GUY HAD SURVIVED AND I HAD SOMEONE TO HELP ME RUN HERD ON THESE DUMB ASSES”
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