Wow this was really well done this ish!

It starts off with a Japanese ship hunting dolphins with tuna nets and Aquaman describes the horrible experience the dolphins go through during their capture. A baby dolphin when it is born immediately jumps out of the water to breath fresh air. However the moment it is caught by a net sometimes it chooses to stop breathing essentially committing suicide.

The mother dolphin and the baby are thrown into the ship struggling for life and the Japanese crewman is about to end their lives and Aquaman stops it right on time.

He then goes on while writing up in his book why he feels he owes his life to the dolphins.

King Travis of Atlantis abandoned Arthur as a baby and left him on Mercy reef. Atlantean babies only able to breathe in water would lay in the water and eventually the water of the reef would recede and the air would suffocate the baby. This didn't kill Arthur being that he is half Atlantean and half human. A female dolphin found him and had a baby dolphin named Drin. Prome the mother was scorned by the lead Dolphin but she convinced the pack to hold onto the defenseless human baby.

Like Tarzan raised y apes or Romulus by wolves this was a brilliant and beautifully rendered myth come to life on these pages. We watch Arthur grow up with these dolphins barely surviving and barely fed until he adapts. He slowly learns if his super strength from a near death with a shark that tried to kill a female dolphin named Nera. And yeah he falls in love with her but he is told she is not for him and the dolphins help him discover other humans.

One day Drin and Arthur are pestering each other and Drin accidentally jumped onto the blades of a boat and dies. Arthur refuses to leave his body to the sharks but Prom makes him face the harsh reality by letting go, and from there he eventually leaves to find his own way.

Loved every page. 💕 more