I'll admit it, I struggled with this series but because I love Scott Snyder I stuck with it, hoping his talent would shine through and would redeem a story that at times seemed too much like a bad 80s film that was little more than an underwater rip-off of Alien. I loved the first two issues, nearly threw in the towel on issue through, but pressed on to issue five, where things seemed to get very interesting very fast. Five was the turning point for which I'd hoped. Or so I thought. At that point, though, the book changed from a bad 80s film to a worse 90s film, Waterworld. I slogged through, though, mildly intrigued and ever hopeful. But as the story progressed, my faith began to sour, and by the final issue I was quite disenchanted.

Issue ten was a mess. The amount of new information presented felt like Snyder woke up one morning and thought, "Oh crap, how am I going to wrap this up??? Better think of something and fast!" He wrote and wrote and wrote and came up with the most convoluted, rushed, and nonsensical finale I've ever read. It was too much, that somehow felt like too little, far FAR too late.

I'd skip this book completely and stick with Snyder's stronger works. The man is an amazing talent. Unfortunately he doesn't use it consistently here.

I will say that Sean Murphy's art was the only consistent and spectacular thing about the book. If I could rate the art alone I would easily and proudly give it a 10. Unfortunately that's not the case.

I gave it a 3.5 because that's about the total number of issues I thought were good and worth my time and money. more