My Cover of the Week 05-06-2013

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Artist: Jason Latour

If it wasn’t for my surprise of how much I enjoyed Green Lantern this week Winter Soldier would have easily been my choice for Comic of the Week but it also quite clearly is the easiest choice I have had so far for Cover of the Week with this variant by the writer himself Jason Latour. With the sad news that this is the last issue of what has been a great arc from Jason Latour and Nic Klein, I still can’t quite work out why this book is ending after all it was Latour and Klein who managed to pull me back to Winter Soldier after getting thoroughly bored of the Brubaker lead title. The covers since Latour and Klein took over the book have consistently been up there as the best each month this book is released, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire doing some fantastic work, as they always do, on covers. But this issue it is Latour’s variant cover that is my cover of the week. This really was not a difficult choice, the moment the preview for this cover was released I knew I had to have a copy and this cover is just stunning, the embrace of Bucky and Tesla Tarasova, the Electric Ghost, falling to Earth makes a for a beautiful cover, to me almost seeming like a farewell cover from Latour to the characters that he has quite clearly so enjoyed writing. This was my standout for the week and I have to ask Marvel why this title has come to an end? At least for now we know Nic Klein will be on an issue of Thor: God of Thunder and I hope to hear Latour’s next Marvel project announced soon or at SDCC 2013.