I am kinda like "why does Falcon and Winter Soldier make it seem like Sam and Bucky haven't seen each other for a while when they're working together in Captain America"

I wonder if it was written at a weird time.

they're also working together in Hawkeye: Freefall

I don't think so because it definitely incorperates things from pretty recent comics

hmmm

I think it more has to do with "establishing a dynamic"

there's a lot of character choices in that comic that are not so much making sense, and the hoped-for audience is clearly MCU fans, so

anyway, what's going on in captain america

I think it's gotten better lately!

and this run has a lot of cool elements with kind of hit and miss plotting, but I am still interested in the current plot

anyway one weird thing about this comic is that peggy carter is alive, and brunette for some reason

and leading a girl gang

anyway there's kind of a new origin for peggy tied to this group:

it's VERY WEIRD that Peggy is a brunette now but still American, I am constantly thrown off by it

this also makes more sense if you use mcu!peggy's role in the story vs 616!peggy, since comics peggy is/was american volunteering with the french resistance who had a short affair with captain america but didn't interact with the invaders at all

now: if you want to say she was secretly trailing them they mostly didn't notice, because she's a spy, that could work? but she wasn't around for project: rebirth in comics so the mix of the two continuities is really throwing me off.

we won't explain this resurrection and I'm okay with that

anyway alexa lukin is the big bad in this comic, and she's resurrected her husband aleksander and possibly unwittingly the red skull with him

also apparently involved in brainwashing bucky, b/c why not:

and earlier, stole a bit of sharon's soul:

it's implied that maybe giving sharon her soul back will fix her aging, which doesn't 100% make sense but whatever it's magic, and artists clearly can't handle the older sharon thing

so they're going on a quest to find sharon's soul

selene works for the trump administration lmao

meanwhile misty knight and peggy are going to madripoor to check on a contact, but they're ambushed by crossbones instead

sin is also around because it's captain america v5 redux

and finally, while they are escaping, their contact shows up:

which took a long time for a cap v5 redux

anyway, it turns out general ross, who earlier, steve was framed for the murder of, is still alive?

I'm not sure if this is supposed to imply that Natasha was only ever sent to Madripoor for this mission— b/c she's been in Madripoor for a while. Though I guess that Invisible Woman appearance could be reasonably connected with the Daughters of Liberty thing, since Sue Richards is already connected with them

it doesn't matter because Natasha is moving to San Francisco next month!

curious how ross being alive squares with his literal actual corpse being in both immortal hulk and absolute carnage

it's a last page reveal, so

could be a fakeout!

the corpse is a clone clearly