4.0

Super short volume but pretty damn fun.

So Aquaman needs help taking the throne back. He goes to the Ninth, which are basically the ghettos of the underwater world, and ask for help. King Shark, which if you don't know about, is pretty much a big fucking talking shark, says nah bro we good. But then Aquaman goes to fight anyway because Mara is dying and he needs to take it, to break the spell, before she dies. So the war begins. Then we also have a one shot story of Aquaman and Mara much older living with their son in a perfect style world but we all know that can't be true...a what if almost style story.

Good: I think the art is fantastic. Like so damn good. My boy does his job. The pacing in this volume is perfect. Very quick and fun and the ending leads up to both Mara's solo mini-series and more aquaman love. The one shot, while I have issues, is actually pretty well done and I feel really bad for their life of the queen and king.

Bad: The art in the one shot is really bad in my opinion. Hard to take a lot of serious moments seriously.

Overall this was pretty great. It mostly is thanks to the fantastic art of the main story and of course the pacing a lot quicker than the start of this series. Hope it keeps up. A 3.5 out of 5, but I'll bump it to a 4.