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King in Black: Atlantis Attacks by Greg Pak

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thethirdcrouch's review

3.0

I really appreciate Wave taking a prominent role in this series. However, the conflict raised in this series doesn't make any sense. It's trying to be a a huge deal but it should not have been in the first place. Amadeus is suppossedly a genius but he can't figure out that Mike Nguyen is the cause of all these and an annoyingly stupid character too. Or maybe just poorly conceived because whatever he did raises tons of economic issues that should not have been that unchallenged. If he's part of a bigger conspiracy then fine. But acting on his own? Then he turned to an evil hypocrite then back to good. Then Amadeus blamed himself! I understand some point of Nguyen, him telling about things not black and white, but it's poorly executed. Choose your motivations, man.
I enjoyed the amount of characters here and the interactions of Silk and Amadeus. I think the main conflict should have been planned well. The dilemma didn't really feel like a dilemma. Amadeus could have just captured Nguyen for all of it. I'm not even convinced that the Sirenas planted the chip.
The art here is better especially with some facial expressions of Namor. The cover art, drawn mostly by Rock-Je Kim and Carlo Pagulayan and colored by different artists, is really good.