Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting kicked off the 2004-launching volume of CAPTAIN AMERICA with one of the biggest bangs in the hero’s long history. The first issue ended with someone shooting Red Skull through the heart and that would prove just the tip of the iceberg. In issues #1-6, #8-9 and #11-14, Cap, Nick Fury, and Agent 13 attempt to figure out who murdered the Skull and also what they plan to do with the cobbled-together Cosmic Cube.
The man behind the plan turns out to be General Aleksander Lukin, a protégé of Russia’s Vasily Karpov, the man who discovered Bucky Barnes’ body in the ice after he sacrificed himself to stop a drone bomb. At the same time, Steve Rogers fell into the water and became frozen in suspended animation only to resurface in AVENGERS #4. Unfortunately, Bucky proved far less lucky.
Instead, the one-time military mascot found himself brainwashed and made to murder targets at the direction of Karpov and his people as the Winter Soldier, thawed out from time to time to do their dirty work with the help of a cybernetic arm to replace the one blown off in the drone accident. In the modern day, Lukin unleashed Barnes, but the results did not quite fit with the General's plans.
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