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Today's Uncanny Avengers And Captain America: Steve Rogers Are Direct Preludes To Secret Empire (SPOILERS)

Today's Uncanny Avengers #22 – and it is a belter of an issue for all sorts of reasons – begins with the Red Skull getting lobotomised. Or rather, the piece of Charles Xavier's brain that had been attached to his own to give him telepathic powers has been removed.  And just like a film star or TV writer  getting to write their own comic book straight off the bat… so the Beast is the ideal candidate to do so.

This powered-up Red Skull threat had been the focus of Uncanny Avengers of late – a team formed by Captain America to take him down. But how on earth was this to tie into Captain America and the upcoming Secret Empire.

Well, we get the answer, in today's Captain America; Steve Rogers. It was all part of the plan.

So when, in Uncanny Avengers, the Red Skull is taken away by SHIELD

The Red Skull won't be detaimned for long.

Although somehow, the Uncanny Avengers team themselves aren't aware at all that the Red Skull has been boosted, and go out for a night's drinking. More on where that leads later…. because it's time for a flashback to the first time Captain America, as a Hydra agent, met the Nazi commandant Red Skull. Who had imprisoned Helmut and taken over Hydra. And we know how this Captain America feels about Helmut.

Which corresponds to the conversation Captain America and the Red Skull have in the present day.

And a culmination of Captain America's plans for Hydra.

You remember all that talk about how the fascist Magneto could possibly join a fascist organisation like Hydra because of their association with the Nazis like Red Skull?

This looks like why. And, yes, you can see the Red Skull's remaining brains spilling out there. After The Beast spent such a long time fitting them in, properly as well. He might as well not even bothered.

And as to why the 1945 scenes seem to be set in a world where the Nazis and Hydra don;t seem to have lost the Second World War…

…well there are further spoilers for those out there somewhere.

Uncanny Avengers #22 by Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz and David Curiel – who do some remarkable work in this issue we'll highlight later – and Captain America: Steve Rogers #15 by Nick Spencer, Javier Pina, Andrews Guinaldo and Rachelle Rosenberg and published today. Secret Empire #0 is out in two weeks…

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