Overall, I really liked this issue. I absolutely hate Hydra Steve Rogers and that Marvel has taken this path with him, but the writing in this issue solidified my feelings by showing him to be an arrogant ass, so in that, it was very successful. The art, as usual, is solid and I am looking forward to seeing how this team reacts to the coming changes. Roberto has been known to be three steps ahead of his opponents, and it's going to be interesting to see what happens when his opponent has been in front of him this whole time. Read Full Review

Out of the major Secret Empire books that hit this week, U.S.Avengers seems to be the only one really having fun with it. Read Full Review

Great art, great character moments, unfortunately connected to a less-than-stellar event. Read Full Review

While the art in this book is some of the best in Marvel's lineup, the book lets it down in this issue with setting up future storylines and the Secret Empire crossover. Instead of giving us actual progress in this book, we get set up. Granted, set up is important, but the issues that focus on it solely are never very entertaining. Read Full Review

This was real good. All the (many) flaws intrinsic to the Secret Empire Event get assumed by the story and are the only thing that affect the rating.

Hydra Cap is just so creepy to read lmao

Evil Cap sizes up the USAvengers as potential enemies. This is about the least amount of action you can cover in an issue and still deliver a great reading experience. Cap is full of menace and there's foreshadowing happening all over the place. Paco Diaz's art agrees with me in a lot of ways, and "a bunch of cool, insightful conversations scripted by Al Ewing" is exactly the sort of substitute I want to see in a comic that decides to forego action. And even for "no action," two of those cool conversations are backdropped by pretty awesome fight scenes. Mr. Ewing is really getting ambitious in embracing Secret Empire and positioning his team right in the path of the oncoming storm.

I'm not particularly looking forward to Secret Empire, but I did enjoy the mental joust between Cap and Roberto. This has been a fun series and continues to be.

I'm really enjoying this book. I hate the whole disgusting idea of "evil Captain America" and I've been able to avoid it entirely until this week. Now it has infected a book that I like, dragging it down into the gutter. I'm holding out a slim hope that the Danielle Cage Captain America from the future that was in this book recently will come in and help save the day. I'd LOVE that :)