Invincible Iron Man #17

This is Part 10 of the 12-part story of Tony Stark's self-induced slow lobotomy, to keep the Superhero Registration Database out of the hands of Norman Osborn.

We find out next issue that Madame Masque here is really Pepper Potts. So it's even more astounding she easily found the communicator Masque threw away in the snow.

Tony thinks about what Captain America would think of him abandoning a comrade. He's almost certainly referring to Steve Rogers here, not Bucky Barnes. In real time this is partway through the CA: Reborn mini-series. Even though the chronology experts put that series happening between #13 and #14, Tony has been on the run and probably doesn't know about it. But he's also now probably forgotten that Cap is supposedly dead, and replaced by Bucky.

Dmitri Bukharin next appears in the Hulk: Winter Guard 1-shot where he retires as Crimson Dynamo to become supervisor of the WG. But he'll retake the CD armour partway through the Darkstar & Winter Guard mini-series and be with the team in Amazing Spider-Man #676 when they possibly die (at least most of them aren't seen again).

I don't think the intercepted email helps HAMMER find Maria Hill or Tony. I list Christopher Walsh here (and in a couple of earlier appearances) as a friend because he doesn't like working for HAMMER, and will turn against them (in a small way) next issue.

Cap/Bucky may be watching Maria and Black Widow get captured, but he obviously does nothing about it because they're in HAMMER custody next issue. He'll turn up again at the end of #19.

Cap/Bucky joined the New Avengers immediately after the end of Secret Invasion, and has been with them throughout Dark Reign, generally getting in Osborn's way. He appeared last in their Annual #3 rescuing Hawkeye after Norman Osborn captured him in Dark Reign: The List - Avengers. But recently before that he got involved with Black Widow in Cap/Steve's Rebirth. And Cap/Steve told Cap/Bucky he could keep the title and the shield in CA: Who Will Wield The Shield. After that he tangled with the 1950's Cap in his own #602-605.

Stark is wearing Model 2 armour this issue. Next month he'll go back even further.