After reading the recent issues of Captain America . . I had to get this series. If he's coming back . . I'm interested to see how that's going to happen. Plus, I thought Ed Brubaker did a fantastic job with the stories in the recent issues. I'm a fan of his other work, so . . I don't see a down-side to this. Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice will be doing the art. So, all-in-all . . this should be pretty amazing. My only concern is that it lives up to all the hype that it's received. Anyways, this book has everything in it. We've got stories of World War II, the New Captain America - Bucky Barnes, the Black Widow, SHIELD, HAMMER, the Red Skull and Arnim Zola, Nick Fury and of course Norman Osborn and his team of Avengers. Really though, the whole story comes down to Sharon Carter. At the time of Steve's death, Sharon was an agent of SHIELD. Apparently the Red Skull had exerted some kind of mind-control over some of them, including SHIELD, and in the process she's the one who shot Steve.
This, along with a lot of her memory, was lost to her . . until recently. When she got her memory back, she also remembered what she did with the gun. So now, her and the Falcon, along with the Vision, have gone to Hank Pym to try to figure out some answers. First of all, there's something special about the gun. And secondly, Sharon has some memories of when she was a captive of the Skulls. There was a project that he and Zola were working on and it involved one of Doom's time-platforms. She doesn't remember everything, but she does seem to remember Steve's body in the glow of the machine. Anyways, SHIELD came in a beat these guys and took all of their equipment and devices. They're currently in the hold of HAMMER's helicarrier . . it's base of operations. That's where Bucky and the Black Widow come it. They're also working with Sharon and the Falcon in trying to solve this mystery. With the help of Nick Fury, they infiltrate the base and attempt to get the devices that Hank needs to examine. However, they find that the Avengers . . specifically Ares and Venom, are there waiting for them. We also get a look at the conversation Zola has with Norman when he's trying to explain to him what he and the Skull had done. "Doom's platform locked his body in time and space. With both the platform and the constant, we were able to pluck him right out of the timestream . . where he lay dormant. But the woman damaged the machine during the process. Steve Rogers' body disappeared during the transfer . . . Steve Rogers has come unstuck in time." We then see him bouncing around during the days of WWII. He doesn't know how he got there, where 'there' is, or where he was before. All he knows is that he's caught up in the actions that are going on around him. I thought this was a fantastic opening-salvo for this story. We have a lot of unanswered questions, and daggling plot-threads, but . . this is only the first issue. We've got 4 issues to go. And even then, after this mini-series, we may not have all the answers. Not yet anyways. I thought Ed did a terrific job weaving this all together. I think this is going to be a very complicated story, but . . we got a pretty good picture of everything that's involved with it this issue. Although, I'm sure there's other stuff to be thrown in that we haven't seen yet. From the first issue alone I'm pretty excited about this. It should be a heck of a ride.
After reading the recent issues of Captain America . . I had to get this series. If he's coming back . . I'm interested to see how that's going to happen. Plus, I thought Ed Brubaker did a fantastic job with the stories in the recent issues. I'm a fan of his other work, so . . I don't see a down-side to this. Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice will be doing the art. So, all-in-all . . this should be pretty amazing. My only concern is that it lives up to all the hype that it's received. Anyways, this book has everything in it. We've got stories of World War II, the New Captain America - Bucky Barnes, the Black Widow, SHIELD, HAMMER, the Red Skull and Arnim Zola, Nick Fury and of course Norman Osborn and his team of Avengers. Really though, the whole story comes down to Sharon Carter. At the time of Steve's death, Sharon was an agent of SHIELD. Apparently the Red Skull had exerted some kind of mind-control over some of them, including SHIELD, and in the process she's the one who shot Steve. 
This, along with a lot of her memory, was lost to her . . until recently. When she got her memory back, she also remembered what she did with the gun. So now, her and the Falcon, along with the Vision, have gone to Hank Pym to try to figure out some answers. First of all, there's something special about the gun. And secondly, Sharon has some memories of when she was a captive of the Skulls. There was a project that he and Zola were working on and it involved one of Doom's time-platforms. She doesn't remember everything, but she does seem to remember Steve's body in the glow of the machine. Anyways, SHIELD came in a beat these guys and took all of their equipment and devices. They're currently in the hold of HAMMER's helicarrier . . it's base of operations. That's where Bucky and the Black Widow come it. They're also working with Sharon and the Falcon in trying to solve this mystery. With the help of Nick Fury, they infiltrate the base and attempt to get the devices that Hank needs to examine. However, they find that the Avengers . . specifically Ares and Venom, are there waiting for them. We also get a look at the conversation Zola has with Norman when he's trying to explain to him what he and the Skull had done. "Doom's platform locked his body in time and space. With both the platform and the constant, we were able to pluck him right out of the timestream . . where he lay dormant. But the woman damaged the machine during the process. Steve Rogers' body disappeared during the transfer . . . Steve Rogers has come unstuck in time." We then see him bouncing around during the days of WWII. He doesn't know how he got there, where 'there' is, or where he was before. All he knows is that he's caught up in the actions that are going on around him. I thought this was a fantastic opening-salvo for this story. We have a lot of unanswered questions, and daggling plot-threads, but . . this is only the first issue. We've got 4 issues to go. And even then, after this mini-series, we may not have all the answers. Not yet anyways. I thought Ed did a terrific job weaving this all together. I think this is going to be a very complicated story, but . . we got a pretty good picture of everything that's involved with it this issue. Although, I'm sure there's other stuff to be thrown in that we haven't seen yet. From the first issue alone I'm pretty excited about this. It should be a heck of a ride.
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