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This was a series that I was having a little bit of trouble with. I wasn't sure that I liked the story, and there were times where the characters felt a little off to me. I'll admit that it wasn't something that was lighting me up when I read it. But, this final issue of this limited series not only turned out to be the best, but was thoroughly enjoyable throughout.
In this issue Auqaman and the Flash take the unfinished Atlantean spaceship, powered by the Speed Force, and fly it straight at the giant spaceship here to completely consume the Earth. Crashing the ship onto the surface of the planet sized construct, Arthur and Barry get separated.
Whilst Barry gets sucked into some strange kind of dreamworld (possibly similar to what the folks on Earth are experiencing), Arthur manages to come face to strange mechanised wall with whatever it is controlling everything. The entity and Arthur begin a dialogue, with the creature recognising Arthur as a fellow sovereign thanks to Arthur's absolutely awesome speech in which he tells the aliens that he is the king of the oceans, and that the Earth is 70% water, making him the King of Earth.
Whilst he's unable to get the creature to see things his way, he does figure out that the entity comes from a water planet, and has salt water running through its veins. Using his powers to command the oceans, Arthur literally begins ripping the monster apart; finding Barry in the process. Knowing that he's separated from the Speed Force, Arthur allows Barry to use him as a conduit to regain access, shutting the alien fleet down in the process.
As the ship falls apart around them the heroes and villains of Earth band together and destroy they invading ships.
I really loved pretty much everything about this issue. The moments with Barry in his dream world, realising that he could be a better husband are great, Arthur being an absolute bad-ass king as the last man standing to defend the Earth was pretty epic, and the genuine friendship that formed between the two of them was perfect. I loved the scene where they're floating above Earth, thinking they're going to die, and them getting pizza as part of their weekly friend-dates was a perfect epilogue for the story.
This was a book that definitely made the series worth reading because it absolutely stuck the landing. It ended up making me love the two characters and the friendship that they have, and left me wanting to read more. And that's just about everything you could want from a book like this.
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