Civil War

Captain America is at odds with his own government and with his friends, and the people nearest to him take the damage. His girlfriend, Agent 13, has her life pulled apart when her superiors turn her divided loyalties against her.

Away from that fight, a new villain steps forward and the Red Skull starts to make his presence known. The Winter Soldier meets Cap face to face again, and the question hanging over the encounter is which side he will take.

James Buchanan Barnes, once Cap's partner Bucky, spends his first Christmas in the 21st century. He must live with what he was forced to do as the Winter Soldier, and with how terrible those acts were.

This volume collects Captain America issues 22 to 24 along with Winter Soldier: Winter Kills. It reads as a superhero drama with a spy-thriller edge, and it follows the fallout of the Civil War conflict around Cap rather than the main battle. Cap can neither pick a side nor make sense of the conflict, and the open question is what move he has left to redeem himself.