Comicology Face Off: Sidekick battle

The similarities between Dick Grayson and James Buchanan Barnes are astonishing, especially given the fact that they are both currently holding their mentors’ mantles. They’re both great fighters from a young age and both were side kicks to each universe’s premiere martial artists. When they go up against each other, how would they do? Let’s see in this edition of Comicology: Face Off.

This is how we do Face Offs. We take an angle from each character’s life and compare them with one another, then we see who would come out on top based on that particular area.

Childhood:

Bucky was a troubled youth from the 1940’s who had  fire in his heart, but needed to get his head on straight. Dick was a naturally gifted althetic kid who was traumatized at his parents’ deaths. Both are orphans. Bucky’s dad was a soldier, Dick’s dad was a circus trapeeze.
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