But many fans took an instant dislike to Bart’s style—everybody was hulking the anatomical proportions were comically extreme—and most everyone was completely lost by the first issue’s story, which was my fault.

Only, Bart chose a page layout design that utterly confused even the most basic storytelling and completely derailed this dicey misdirect.

Ignoring instructions and warnings about how important it was to keep the lines straight and clear, Bart chose to insert—for no apparent reason—poster-shot images of Captain American and the Falcon on most every page.

He first attempted to join the United States armed forces after his girlfriend was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, but was rejected for health reasons.

in order to take part in a black op program designed to create a secret super operative to be used exclusively by the O.N.I.

[6] His superhuman strength and endurance comes from a drug named acetovaxidol which is regulated in his system via a computer grafted to his spine.

The Falcon has broken Leila Davis, an American journalist he has a past relationship with, out of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

He eventually finds him, taking shelter in the compound of the Rivas Family, an infamous drug cartel with CIA connections.

[7] Having captured Leila Davis and the Falcon, the "Anti-Cap" steals a cargo plane from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and begins to fly it back to the United States.

There they discover what Leila Davis found and what caused her to be locked up in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp taped to the back of the Falcon's Avengers ID and hidden behind a toilet.

[6] Days later Captain America meets with Nick Fury and Admiral Jimmy Westbrook - the man behind the project that created the "Anti-Cap."

While this is happening Admiral Westbrook and Nick Fury meet to discuss recent events surrounding Captain America, the Falcon and the "Anti-Cap."

Meanwhile, Captain America and the Falcon journey to Luke Cage's Harlem apartment in order to obtain a sample of the acetovaxidol from his blood stream.

This chaos is briefly stopped when the Scarlet Witch arrives with Henry Pym to reveal his final analysis of "WWIII in a Petri dish."

While the two main characters make their way through the streets of New York, a man named Damocles Rivas arrives offering a deal to Westbrook.

[11] Captain America and Admiral Westbrook meet for the "Anti-Cap"'s burial at sea aboard the aircraft carrier, U.S.S.

His conversation with the Falcon reveals to the reader that the "Bite Me" note contained a paralytic enzyme that helped to fake the "Anti-Cap"'s death.

With help from Nick Fury and Agent Ali Morales, Cap, the Falcon and the "Anti-Cap" make plans for an infiltration and attack on the U.S.S.

After a brief confrontation MODOK stands down, allowing Captain America to put on a nearby AIM helmet he thinks is a controlling unit.

From a secret AIM base MODOK in Damocles Rives' body holds the Falcon and the "Anti-Cap" hostage.

Before he can make his demands fully known Captain America manipulates the conversation in such a way that brings Damocles Rivas' mind partially to the surface to fight MODOK.

MODOK reveals at this point that he mentally manipulated Westbrook's people into creating DNA strands that would mutate within his blood to form a deadly virus.

Gaining control, Damocles Rivas transports MODOK's body and Captain America into the middle of one of the Hulk's rampages.

[14] Now in Singapore and still controlling MODOK's body, Damocles Rives does little to defend himself against the Hulk in an attempt to commit suicide.

Rivas uses MODOK's mental powers to bring Bruce Banner's personality to the surface of the Hulk's mind.

After contacting Henry Pym and Reed Richards via satellite, the three scientists begin to work on a way to neutralize the virus within MODOK's blood.

Without the knowledge of how to administer the cure Captain America relies on the Falcon and Agent Morales back in the Rivas Compound.

While this is happening, the "Anti-Cap" attacks the embassy of Baud Olan, a middle eastern country he accuses of harboring terrorists.