Brubaker and Marvel continue to make the death of the original Captain America a touching on-going story in the Marvel universe by having Cap's former sidekick turned brainwashed-communist-hitman-for-a-while into the new Captain America. 
 The story works becasue the new Cap fully realizes that he's standing in a large shadow, and that he can't try to 'copy' the original. He can only try to honor him. And since he doesn't have the original super soldier formula working for him, he has to use his own skills as a former covert operative which means a new type of Cap. I even like the updated uniform.