New Red Skull's motivations revealed

Captain America writer Ed Brubaker has revealed the new Red Skull's significance to Fear Itself, as well as some of the character's motivations heading into the event's launch.

Sin, the Red Skull's daughter, took on her deceased father's mantle in the final pages of Captain America: Reborn, and will serve as one of the primary antagonists of Fear Itself when it begins next month.

"She's definitely the apocalyptic version of her father in a weird way," Brubaker explained to CBR. "She's crazier, she's more dangerous, and she's more destructive in a way because she feels she has some destiny to fulfill.

"Sin is like the Joker, where you just never know what she's going to do," the writer continued. "I've always played her that way, and now she's playing this bigger role.

"In Fear Itself she's given the opportunity and the ability to write her message in large block letters across the world in a way she hadn't had the opportunity to before and in a way that the Red Skull wasn't able to accomplish," Brubaker added.

Fear Itself launches with a prologue issue by Brubaker in March, followed by the main seven-issue miniseries by Matt Fraction which begins in April.