Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (1998) #2

All right, back on track. I had planned on reading a few Captain America and/or Invaders books around the fourth of July or so and did, but with vacation and such I didn't get around to actually posting about them. I do so now, with the following book and its rather grandiose title.

I'd actually started working on it a while back but came across an odd challenge; Much of the art is vertical rather than horizontal so it is difficult to copy into a post. Let's see what we can do.

The book begins with the original Human Torch mysteriously making himself hot enough to dive into the ocean and attack Atlantis. The (literally) boiling Atlanteans get reinforcements from the Nazis, while Namor and Captain America look on, shackled.

What what what?? None of this makes any sense. We transition to flashback material for some answers.

The Invaders are battling Nazis attacking a shipyard but Cap-Am is suspicious at the lack of aircraft in the Nazi assault. It's as if destroying the facility is not their primary goal. Peculiar.

As if on cue, an airship appears and Namor decides to attack it. The move is ill-advised as he gets blasted out of the sky by the ship.

The Human Torch attempts to help Namor but is instead snared into an asbestos net cast from the aircraft. The airship reveals itself to be some sort of advanced spaceship-looking craft. It drags the Human Torch into the ocean. Namor follows...and neither return.

Until a few days later. On a military base, Captain America is fresh off a chewing out from a commanding officer over his team's poor performance during the Nazi attack when Namor shows up out of nowhere with a rather grim command to follow him. They set off to...Nazi-occupied Atlantis.

It isn't long until they are seen by Nazis and attacked.

And now we're caught up. The Human Torch arrives as Namor and Cap are subdued. The Nazis are controlling the Torch and using him as a fabricated threat to gain confidence from the Atlanteans.

As Captain America attempts to explain this to Namor, he is told to shut his pie-hole by a female newcomer.

Cap wonders why the normally hot-headed Namor doesn't just tell her to go stuff her gills. He gets his answer in short order.

Ah! Lady Fen (assuming she's the real deal)!

How about that? This is a rather personal story for Namor considering that it was the second issue of a Captain America series. Good deal, looking forward to the conclusion.