One of my ALL TIME favorite Captain America comics is “Man Out of Time” – a fantastically written miniseries by Mark Waid and GORGEOUSLY illustrated by Jorge Molina ( @jorgemolinam ) that retells the story of Cap coming out of the ice. It deals with the weight of loss of his removal from his own time, greiving over Bucky’s loss (and remembering him after the Brubaker soft retcon of being about 20 when he “died”).
One of the most striking moments to me is at one point in a flashback, Cap is talking to Bucky about what they want to do after the war is over. Bucky says that he always wanted to visit the Grand Canyon – he never saw it – and it is a part/represents of what they’re fighting the war for.
At the end of the comic, as Cap has some time to himself, he travels to the Grand Canyon for Bucky, as a way to deal with his loss, and this moment happens:
And, well, this moment always gets me. Steve going there, drawing Bucky, and “showing him” the Grand Canyon in the only way he can. It’s his way to try to start to move forward.
It was always a dream of mine to see an epilogue, of Steve being actually able to take him there in person after he finds out he’s still alive. This weekend, I was able to make that a reality.
I had the distinct privilege to be able to commission Jorge Molina himself (the original artist of Man out of Time), at Wizard World New Orleans for just that scene, and here it is:
I am BLOWN AWAY by the work he did – this is a traditional media piece, done in inks and copic markers, and the values he worked in, the expressions, the dynamic pose that conveys the awe of the location, and yet still have it be a tender, quiet moment between the two of them. in the Grand Canyon, Steve with the sketchbook, hand squeezing Bucky’s shoulder, both masks off and taking in the natural majesty of the canyon.
And God, to see Bucky looking honest-to-god /HAPPY/.
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Thank you SO much, Jorge, this is everything I could have wanted and more.
Maybe I’ll be able to (ditigally) color this some day 🙂
This is incredibly beautiful and so damn uplifting that I could cry. The amount of detail for a con commission is stunning. It’s like he always had that picture in his head, and was just waiting for an opportunity to create it.
Bucky Barnes discovers sugar, demands coffee, makes a variety of
involuntary noises, cuddles up to Steve Rogers, regrows a limb, and
fakes it ‘til he makes it at being a person.
Hey, I’ve been recced! Thank you to @hurtcomfortbucky
“All her life she has wanted to run and run and run, but only now does
she have the body to do it.”
Peggy Au where she gets the serum and having another Super Soldier along changes things. Explicit, Peggy/Steve and Peggy/Steve/Bucky
1st is Steve, Bucky and Peggy during the war and the 2nd is the three of them in Avengers timeline before the battle of New York. Coulson had some input in the costumes. Buck is not happy AT ALL.
I have been waiting for this one to go live for a while. I adore the fic and want so much more in this universe. Shadow very patiently waited for me to finish these artworks before posting. I have more I want to do but health and other deadlines are getting in the way so when I do get around to them they’ll be added to the series on AO3 and posted here.
My not-a-bang fic is live! I’ve been working on this one since January, and kath_ballantyne made me gorgeous art to go with it! If you like super soldier Peggy punching Hydra in the face and banging Steve like a barn door, this is the fic for you!
Welcome to the twelfth Civil War Summer Read Along summary post. It’s the place to be if you’re not reading along, if you couldn’t find all the comics, or if you just want my take on the Civil War.
This week we read six comics: Captain America #24, Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War, Fantastic Four #541, Winter Soldier: Winter Kills, Moon Knight #8, and KEY COMIC Civil War #6.
Fear not about potential Steve/Bucky being underage. This is the Brubaker run. Bucky is sixteen in March of 1941, and in August of that year, he meets Steve for the first time at Camp Lehigh. The dance hall in Winter Kills is Christmas 1944. He’s nineteen; nearly twenty. Steve is twenty-four. If gay sex was legal where they were and Steve wasn’t his C.O., it’d be perfectly fine. I studied these particular comics A LOT in the last few weeks to help with my marvel bang story. If you want to know the particular issues, there’s Winter Kills, obviously, but there’s also Captain America 012 (The Winter Soldier Part 4) and Captain America & Bucky 620 (which has Bucky’s view of 012’s events).
[Image: Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers, and Sam Wilson sitting with their backs to the viewer; Bucky, Steve, and Sam are wearing shirts that say “if lost return to Natasha” and Natasha is wearing a shirt that says “I am Natasha.”]
honestly i was just planning on doing this with steve and bucky but then i was like “let’s be serious they would both get lost and sam would be dragged along somehow and natasha would have to bail them out” so then this happened
knitting in the dark 