This was much more serious in tone than the previous issue, which is perfectly fine considering that it was extremely well executed. I just hope that a median tone is settled on Post-Rebirth. Read Full Review

Ultimately, it doesn't feel like a lot happens in this issue, but what's there is good. Read Full Review

With sometimes lackluster art, Aquaman #51 is still worth the purchase for Dan Abnetts mysterious yarn. Read Full Review

It's not bad, that's for sure. Aquaman's new role as the leader of a dry land embassy continues to cull up intriguing story elements and Black Water continues to be an interesting bad guy. I'm not sure this issue does enough to entertain though, as the “heroes questioning their methods” element is understandable, but not very captivating and the detective work in play is more blind luck. Read Full Review

While I loved the art and the colors in this issue, this story just seemed to stop in its tracks while our heroes made wild conclusions about the villain without much of an explanation why.  This is very dialog heavy and the dialog we get isn't really interesting and this whole issue just seems to come off as a way to prolong this story because we don't get any real answers to anything we had in the previous story, besides for the subconscious motives that our villain might have had about murdering folk........... but damn, do the artwork and colors look nice. Read Full Review

I feel really bad for Jonah Payne. I'm assuming that we're suspending reality a bit with this dehydration chamber? This guy is going to get dehydrated and die without giving him water somehow. I like the ethical questions that this guy's imprisonment raises. So far Dan Abnett's run is promising, if you stopped reading Aquaman recently, I'd say jump on now, except that Rebirth is about to happen, so nevermind I guess? The timing is a little awkward here.