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In the same month's Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #13, the partnership of Bucky Barnes and the White Wolf'd dissolved.

The Wolf, transformed by his willing connection to Arnim Zola's Dimension Z, turned the monsters under his command into invaders of Earth.

Bucky, who'd only brought the White Wolf into his " bring down the Century Game, whose players moves' guide the world's currents " scheme because the Wolf had things he needed, confronted him.

( The Wolf didn't flinch in the face of the Century Game's Revolution. )

Cold War's the crossover between the two Cap books that began with an Alpha issue in April, where Bucky Barnes and the White Wolf'd taken control of Arnim Zola's Dimension Z.

They'd kidnapped Steve Rogers' adoptive son Ian to do so - Ian'd been fathered by Zola, and so had the material they needed in him.

Steve, Sam Wilson (who'd worked with Ian both in Symbol of Truth and 2014's All-New Captain America), Sharon Carter, and Misty Knight'd gone to Alaska to save him - where they'd been met by inhabitants of Dimension Z, coming out of portals in the liveries of the Revolution of the Century Game and the White Wolf.

Symbol of Truth #12 was largely action against those monsters - and soldiers of the Century Game's Outer Circle, who'd been wargaming amongst themselves when these other factions showed up.

( That action was unremarkably engaging. )

In issue #10, Roger Aubrey'd freed himself (and spearheaded the freeing of his fellow Invaders) from the clutches of the Mental Organism Designed Only for Control.

MODOC's master, the Power of the Century Game, had responded by flipping his Starpoint from " Control " to " Killing " - and MODOK had in turn killed Roger.

The resolution of the latest move in the world-spanning Century Game was now the Power and MODOK versus the Invaders - Steve Rogers going for the game player, and his comrades going for the chief pawn - in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

( The Power caught Steve's shield, thrown at him. )

Issue #7'd ended with AIM taking Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the next move in the world-spanning Century Game, the one that Bucky Barnes'd broken away from Steve Rogers to join, to end the way he wanted to.

Steve and friends, gathering to prevent that move, were caught off guard. Most of them (excepting Hawkeye and Black Widow, who either couldn't be claimed for multiple issues of a Captain America story or just weren't) were diverted to Baxter Springs, Kansas.

AIM's beekeepers went about their work in issue #8 as if no one'd even tried to forestall them.

( They were enthusiastic. )