Patrick Gleason does a very effective job of selling the more disturbing elements of this issue, as the opening scene where a man is tortured by the main villain was nicely unsettling. The sequence where a criminal who objects to the main villain's authority is crushed by a force-field was also a great display of power, and I can't wait for Aquaman to run up against this element of the villain's ability. The sense of urgency when Aquaman races to the surface with the drowning infant was also well realized, as was the panel where the looter turns his gun on Aquaman's cetacean friend. The encounter with the force field wasn't conveyed as well as it could've been though. Read Full Review