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A review by katereads2much
Aquaman, Volume 1: The Trench by Geoff Johns
4.0
I enjoyed "Aquaman: The Trench," and it was cool getting to know Aquaman better. I'm excited to have been divested of my incorrect assumptions regarding the nature of Aquaman's powers, and as an added bonus, I am entirely in love with Mara. There is little I love more than when the person who is sent as an assassin ends up in love with the person they're meant to kill. That is one of my absolute favorite tropes behind plots that revolve around "Fake Relationships."
The monsters are creepy as all hell and remind me of the nightmares I had as a kid about the Angular Fish that live in the deep, dark parts of the sea. Watching Aquaman battle to save both the humans who have been treated like food and the creatures who have exhausted their own food supply.
The cliffhanger at the end definitely made me want to find the next issue, so I'll likely be hunting down the next volume soon.
The monsters are creepy as all hell and remind me of the nightmares I had as a kid about the Angular Fish that live in the deep, dark parts of the sea. Watching Aquaman battle to save both the humans who have been treated like food and the creatures who have exhausted their own food supply.
Spoiler
I would have felt no particular compunction about the destruction of those creatures, mostly out of the fear that I would have had for them, but it made me love Aquaman a little bit that he did see it as a tragedy and perhaps even a crime that he destroyed them. He's compassionate, and he reminds me a great deal of Wonder Woman--a fierce warrior whose first instinct is to find a peaceful conclusion to any situation no matter how desperate things seem.The cliffhanger at the end definitely made me want to find the next issue, so I'll likely be hunting down the next volume soon.