To me there is no question who is currently doing the most powerful and innovative art in comic books. It is Marco Rudy. I raved about his work on New Avengers Annual #1. Now he is teamed with rising star writer Ales Kot on the new Winter Soldier title, Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier.
I don't know if it is merely crass commercial desire on the part of Marvel's editors to cash in on the success of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), but the former sidekick of the star-spangled Avenger is recast as a special agent in charge of protecting Earth from outer-space threats; or, as Bucky Barnes partner Daisy "Quake" Johnson asks, "Man on the wall, guarding Earth against all known threats by murdering them before they murder us?"
Kots crafts a complex narrative featuring underwater smuggling of a potent drug imported from a planet in a far-off galaxy, Namor, Loki, "bad trip" psychedelia and life in outer space. Marco Rudy's art brings the story to life.
The scenes aboard orbiting satellite stations located above Earth and Mars (seen in the first few scans below) remind me of "Winnie-ther-Pooh Acres" in Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964).
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