Steve Sadowski

During a fight against Nazis, the Invaders get time-traveled to present-day Earth 616, where they immediately start pounding on the Thunderbolts.

This attracts some attention and speculation. Namely, wtf is going on?!?

Soon after, Iron Man’s Avengers arrive and capture The Invaders. 

So, of course, the New Avengers decide to bust them out.  (Note: The title of the series, “Avengers/Invaders” isn’t specific about which Avengers team they mean–and now we see it’s both so…Nicely done!)

When the captive Invaders escape, Bucky and Captain America split up.  Bucky finds his way to Tony Stark, who confiscated Cap’s shield, and reclaims it–a nice touch paralleling the events in Brubaker’s Death of Captain America extended storyline.

While all that’s happening, Namor decides early on to leave his team-mates and go find Atlantis, where he gets his own adventure…Fighting himself!

Issue #4 has the big Avengers vs Avengers fight…

But also features Doctor Strange discovering that the mysterious green mists that brought The Invaders forward in time also enabled the Nazis to win World War 2.  We get a glimpse of Golden Age Vision, Invaders Bucky meets Cap-Bucky, and we’re left with an ominous warning…

And that’s billed as the end of “Act One.”

This is surprisingly good, and there are some great touches along the way.  The team meets Spider-Man, and when they first meet Spidey is hanging upside down, so the panel is drawn upside-down (from his perspective).  Captain America is “dead” in Earth 616, so that produces some interesting interactions–especially with present-day Iron Man.   I expected this to be a dumb stunt of a series, but I really like it!