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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"
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I wonder if it was written at a weird time.
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they're also working together in Hawkeye: Freefall
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I don't think so because it definitely incorperates things from pretty recent comics
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hmmm
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I think it more has to do with "establishing a dynamic"
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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
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anyway, what's going on in captain america
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I think it's gotten better lately!
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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
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anyway one weird thing about this comic is that peggy carter is alive, and brunette for some reason
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and leading a girl gang
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anyway there's kind of a new origin for peggy tied to this group:
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it's VERY WEIRD that Peggy is a brunette now but still American, I am constantly thrown off by it
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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
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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.
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we won't explain this resurrection and I'm okay with that
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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
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also apparently involved in brainwashing bucky, b/c why not: 
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and earlier, stole a bit of sharon's soul: 
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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
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so they're going on a quest to find sharon's soul
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selene works for the trump administration lmao
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meanwhile misty knight and peggy are going to madripoor to check on a contact, but they're ambushed by crossbones instead
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sin is also around because it's captain america v5 redux
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and finally, while they are escaping, their contact shows up:
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which took a long time for a cap v5 redux
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anyway, it turns out general ross, who earlier, steve was framed for the murder of, is still alive?
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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
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it doesn't matter because Natasha is moving to San Francisco next month!
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curious how ross being alive squares with his literal actual corpse being in both immortal hulk and absolute carnage
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it's a last page reveal, so
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could be a fakeout!
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the corpse is a clone clearly