Post #46: Captain America: The Winter Soldier COMIC BOOK EDITION

Heads up: I'm devoting the following post to the Captain America: The Winter Soldier comic book, Captain America: The First Avenger movie, The Marvel Civil War saga, and various animated specials and TV episodes. This post contains spoilers. Big ones.

I just finished reading The Winter Soldier saga by Ed Brubaker, and I'm a little concerned about the movie. In the comics, Bucky is a.) a kid they get off a military base at age 16,
b.)  Captain America's partner
and, most importantly and blatantly ignored in First Avenger,
c.) is killed when he and The Cap escape being held prisoner by Nazis. He is blown up with the ship because his arm gets stuck and he can't fall off into the ocean with The Cap.
HE DOES NOT FALL OFF A SPEEDING TRAIN INTO AN ICY ABYSS! THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS!
The Russians find him, missing his left arm and frozen, and go "awesome we found Captain America's partner! He probably has super serum we can replicate! Yay!" Bucky is 100% human. No super soldier here. So, instead, they make him a (bad ass) prosthetic arm and brainwash him, which isn't hard, because he doesn't remember who he is, but remembers all of his combat skills (because Bucky was more than an icon. He was a legitimate soldier with intense training.) and becomes Codename: Winter Soldier, an assassin for the KGB.
This story arc is part of a much larger saga, and is also part of the Marvel Civil War storyline, in which Steve Rogers/Captain America is killed in cold blood, and Bucky takes his place as Captain America.
I looked at the Age of Ultron cast list and Chris Evans is there as Cap. Also, I can't imagine that Marvel Studios wants to touch the saga that pits Captain America against Iron Man in the battle against/for superhuman registration and being forced to work for the government. It's a constant theme in X-Men comics and movies, but not so much in the rest of the mainstream Marvel Universe.
Black Widow is nowhere to be found in the Winter Soldier comics. Falcon plays a pretty minimal role. Important, but minimal.
More to come after I see the movie.
-D.