CHRIS SAMNEE ON CAPTAIN AMERICA...

If this is what we have to look forward to on the new CAP & BUCKY book, the comic book gods have smiled upon us.

RED SKULL by ~ChrisSamnee on deviantART

HERE'S... THE RED SKULL

Now that's more like it! This is about as good as anyone could hope for as a likeness to heir Skull. In fact, the mouth area is almost straight from a Jack Kirby drawing of the ruby red Nazi.


You'll notice that the Red Skull's uniform is less like the traditional jump suit that usually appeared as green in the comics from the early days.




At some point artists began putting Captain America's nemesis into something akin to the traditional Nazi uniform and this is what the movie folks seem to be going for...

BUCKY BARNES SHOOTS NAZIS FOR SPORT

A short break from the alphabetical sketches to bring you a peek into the forthcoming THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA film. A few more photos have made their way out of the secret files of the Allies...

Here we see the look Bucky will have in the film.


Now a note as to what what purpose Bucky serves in the mythos of Captain America. In CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS, James "Bucky" Barnes was the cheerleader for Cap, for sure. He was the classic sidekick, certainly. A great partner to Captain Amercia, but, first and foremost, he was a Nazi killing machine!


And, frankly, he was pretty liberal in his killing ways. He had few qualms when it came to dispatching foes during wartime and sometimes neither did Captain America:



And just who is this shadowy figure?