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The Return Of A Certain Someone In Secret Empire #8 – And Captain America #25 (SPOILERS)

Published Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:30:12 -0500

Whichever one of those titles you read today – Secret Empire #8 or Captain America #25 – it will spoil a reveal in the other. In Captain America it's a final page reveal, in Secret Empire it's a towards-the-end reveal, so basically you can choose your level of spoilerage. I'd recommend Captain America first, but it's your call.

Back in Thunderbolts, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, got continuity-blasted by Kobik, the living cosmic cube.

Before being handed over to Baron Zemo, to be strapped to a rocket ship, just like the one that originally killed Captain America and Bucky Barnes, after the even-more-original Hydra version that was recently revealed, in which the original Baron Zemo was killed by it instead.
Basically, whatever happens, Bucky Barnes always gets killed strapped to a rocket ship in one way or another.

Well, you know how it was as a result of Namor's rage, that the Avengers rescued the frozen body of Captain America? Oh go and read Avengers #4 again. Well, in recent issues of Secret Empire: Brave New World that seemed to veer away from the Secret Empire storyline, we've seen Namor with his advisers.

And in Secret Empire #4…

Just as Namor is handing over the segment of the cosmic cube…

In Captain America #25, we see his regrets at his collusion with Hydra…

…but hiding something from Captain America in plain sight.

Oh look, everyone. He was there all along. And Namor has just told him to take off all his clothes.

So in Secret Empire #8, will Namor cough to his regrets?

Well, he doesn't seem that reticent…

Of course, it was Namor's plan all along. not Bucky's. And apparently, that involved handing the cosmic cube fragment over. Hilarious. Oh Namor, you are such a one…

So it looks like it all kicks off (again) next issue.

Captain America #25 by Nick Spencer, Jesus Saiz, Joe Bennett, Joe Pimentel and Rachelle Rosenberg and Secret Empire #8 by Nick Spencer, Daniel Acuna, Rod Reis, Sean Izaakse and Javier Tartaglia are both published today.

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