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The second extra sized issue of Aquaman: Andromeda has arrived, and whilst we start to get some answers as to what's happening in this issue it also delivers more strangeness, and more of a foreboding sense of horror; leading this to be one of the more interesting entries in DC at the moment.
The mission to travel deep within the ocean to track down the mysterious ship continues as the crew of the Andromeda begin to get ready to board the mysterious sphere on the sea floor. We get some flashbacks that show how the captain got this mission, and how much of his career is riding on it. This sets up for some worrying things to come, as when the team enters the ship and things begin to go wrong, the captain keeps pushing onwards.
Luckily, Aquaman is there to help, though his presence is being kept a secret. His working from the shadows is echoed by Black Manta, who is also on the scene and is using stealth and fear in order to achieve his aims.
I really like this book, it feels like Aquaman was kind of always meant to be a horror series now, thanks to how well Ram V manages to merge the character with the horror themes in this book. The ocean is treated as terrifying here, the mysteries that the human crew are investigating feel eerie and sinister, and Aquaman himself feels strange, almost alien a lot of the times he's on the page.
This title makes me think of things like Sphere, The Abyss, and even Event Horizon, and it's taking small themes from each of these and blending them together nicely to create this really tense and unusual story.
I've not really read another Aquaman book like this, or even many DC books where we follow regular people and see the heroes as these larger than life, almost frightening beings. It's a refreshing change of pace to what we normally have, and I'm super interested in seeing where else this story goes.
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