Sub-Mariner (2007) #1: "Revolution"

Marvel Comics recently had a two-for-one (digital) sale. I took advantage of it to not only move forward with some of the books that I'd started gathering in the past but also to start some new ones, including a six-issue mini-series dedicated to Namor following the Civil War event. 

Here's a partial recap from what's gone on in Civil War. Namor's connected appearance in a Wolverine book was covered here.

The story begins with Iron Man and SHIELD overlooking a devastated (again) Atlantis in the present and some question as to whatever happened to Namor.

We begin to answer that questions with a flashback from eight days earlier. An explosive rocks a small town in Kansas. A great many citizens are killed and the resulting investigation seems to point the finger at Atlantis. 

Lordy. Haven't the surface world and Atlantis gone to war, or nearly come to it, a dozen times already over such sketchy evidence? When will everyone learn?

But asshole that he is, Iron Man makes the call.

This is an interesting approach. When Atlantis has been damaged, or some of its citizens injured or killed by the acts of unknown surface world residents, can Namor just call up whoever is president at that point and lay blame at his/her feet?

Namor first questions Nitro, which makes sense, but yields no results. He then checks in with his own council and finds out about rumours of an unaccounted-for sleeper cell that could very well be the cause of the Kansas explosion.

He later confronts an Atlantean named Timoran about it, a youngster he got a bad vibe from during the council meeting. It doesn't go extremely well for Tim.  

Namor then goes to speak to a mysterious "old friend".

Namor responds by suiting up for war but swears that if blood is spilled, it will be human blood.

SHIELD's "evidence" for blaming Atlantis for the attack on a Kansas town seemed a little thin but then they were surprised at the level of devastation that Atlantis had gone through so there would appear to be more  at play than just a scrap between that organization and the underwater city. Add in the mystery of Namor's mole within SHIELD (I have a theory...) and there's plenty here to keep one coming back. This was a good start.