At last. Captain America #25!!

Well I'm now up-to-date with Captain America having just completed "Red Menace" Vols 1 (by Ed Brubaker Mike Perkins) and 2 and issue #25 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. It's good stuff too.

Red Menace was a great fast moving adventure and reprints issues 15-21 of the current series.

In volume 1, Crossbones and Sin, the Red Skull's daughter, leave a high body count as they cross the US to try to find out who killed the Skull. At the same time, Cap and Agent 13 are on the hunt for Bucky. The two groups nearly meet up in a small town in Iowa but Sin and Crossbones manage to escape with the vital information that Lukin was responsible for the death of the skull. Little do they know that the Red Skull has a special relationship with Lukin!

Thus in Volume 2 everybody heads off to London where Lukin's corporation ( he's taken over Roxxon no less) is opening a new office with a spectacular opening ceremony. Crossbones and Sin are there to get to Lukin but Cap and Agent 13 are also after him. Lukin, on the other hand, has audacious plans for a huge act of terrorism.

As it was set in London it was nice to see Cap teaming-up again with Union Jack and Spitfire in a really exciting adventure.

Although I've missed out issues 22-24, I still had to read (the infamous) issue 25.

Despite all the hype etc it was a really good read and I was still genuinely shocked at the end. Having read the previous issues it was good to still how Lukin, Sin and Crossbones fitted into the story and you could see that Brubaker had been planning something like this for a bit.

I certainly haven't been disappointed in any of his Captain America stories and am looking forward to getting Cap regularly each month.

The next Daredevil trade is due later this month too. Yay!