Kind of feels like a come-down after the craziness of the Winter Soldier's debut. The trip to the UK is a nice change of pace, though. ( )

I really enjoyed this section of Ed Brubaker's Captain America run. In fact, I think Ed Brubaker may be my favorite writer in comics. He is able to balance enough realism to keep up my suspension of disbelief with the fantastic demands of the superhero genre. In this volume, I particularly liked the set up of Crossbones and the Red Skull's daughter. Some gritty scenes of torture but it made for good stakes and a form of baddie psychology you don't often find in comics. ( )

I really enjoyed this section of Ed Brubaker's Captain America run. In fact, I think Ed Brubaker may be my favorite writer in comics. He is able to balance enough realism to keep up my suspension of disbelief with the fantastic demands of the superhero genre. In this volume, I particularly liked the set up of Crossbones and the Red Skull's daughter. Some gritty scenes of torture but it made for good stakes and a form of baddie psychology you don't often find in comics. ( )