Didn't the flashback from Old Man Logan show Red Skull stand triumphantly over Captain America before killing him?

That and, you know, the whole major bit about Logan (not X-23, not already old Logan, but original, classic-style Wolverine) being responsible for the death of most of the X-Men.

silly comics fans, don't you know this brave new world of comics doesn't rely on antiquated concepts like continuity and characterization?

double plus ungood!

Agents of SHIELD did it better.

Winter Soldier did it better.

SUPERMAN 3 DID IT FREAKING BETTER THAN THIS.

STAR TREK TOS WITH EVIL KIRK FROM THE TRANSPORTER ACCIDENT DID IT BETTER.

Oy. Make mine anything but Marvel*, guys.

* only applies to comics. Still like the IP in MCU/TV.

But "good" Kirk never actually met "Bad" Kirk.
Though, there was that episode where some guy & his evil counterpart kept crossing from one universe to another and his "bad" version and he ended up in the middle and were said to be at each other throats for all eternity trapped in that place.

Still better then this Hydra-Cap story. And there is still the "Epilogue" issue that's coming out.

Alternative Factor. Second-to-last episode of S1. Great episode too.

"But what of Lazarus?"

"Agents of HYDRA" Ward made me like Ward again. I didn't think it possible. And I still miss Tripp.

Anyone read the whole "Why Nazi Cap could lift Mjolnir" explanation? My. God. Dumb. Writing. I won't leave spoilers, but its stupid guys. Colossally stupid.

Yes, yes it was. Smells of a back-pedal rewrite if you ask me

I didn't. Which issue? Or I guess what's the explanation?

That's... pretty stupid. But sadly, not without precedent that someone could do that with enough magickal power. Of course, it was pretty stupid before too.

Couldn't agree more!

First, I too am happy this is over.

This may be unpopular, but I still love Nick Spencer. The guy who wrote that Jimmy Olsen story at DC, Ant-Man at Marvel, and The Fix is still OK in my book, even if this particular story fell flat. I even liked most of the Sam Wilson Cap comic.

He wrote Secret Empire under the auspices of a company who has long-ago decided that their bread and butter is wholly dependent upon convoluted, over-extended crossover events. From what I can tell, it's expected that one title or another is going to step up every year to walk us through some ordeal, never again letting us get comfortable with any kind of status quo. Spencer tried and struck out, but he's hardly the first good writer to do so. These days, as a default, I just assume Marvel crossover events are going to be bad, which gives me a little room to be charmed when someone can actually pull one of them off. I hoped that would be the case with Nick Spencer, but even as a fan of his, I just got bored after a few issues and wanted it to be over. Like most folks, I didn't really feel like what we were drug through was worth it.

If this story had been a tiny, 2 or 3 part storyline, kept within Steve's own title, with a heads-up acknowledgement that it was an alternate reality or a temporary glitch in the timeline, I think it maybe would have been tolerable.