Aquaman: Sea of Storms is the fifth story-arc of the Aquaman series in the New 52 relaunch. It was written by Jeff Parker and Paul Pelletier, and illustrated by Sean Parsons and Rain Beredo.
The storyline is preceded by Death of a King which is also written by Jeff Parker and Paul Pelletier, and followed by Maelstrom which is also written by Jeff Parker and Paul Pelletier.
Synopsis
After saving some Atlantean workers from lava vents an alert was triggered that a giant creature was attacking the coast. This creature turned out to be the Karaqan a legendary Atlantean guardian, despite this Aquaman killed the beast to halt it's rampage. Aquaman tracked a piece of the Karaqan's brain to an underwater facility called Triton Base (that had siphoned a piece of the brain from the Karaqan's corpse) where he proceeded to save a diver named Coombs from some sharks although he was critically injured in the attack.
On a trip to the surface world the Trident of Neptune was stolen by a researcher named Daniel Evans so he could learn more about ancient Atlantis, Aquaman was not able to stop him from accidentally unleashing the dreaded Giant-Born upon the world from an artifact. The beasts, who recognized Aquaman's Atlantean royal symbol, attacked him for associating with the ancient family who once imprisoned them.
Though he managed to fend off the Giant Born, also unleashed from that artifact was the ancient hero Hercules, whose mind had been warped after having such an extended stay in the hellish scape he was trapped in. He, too, was defeated by Aquaman, who sent him back into the artifact and swore that he would one day find a way to help the man reclaim his sanity. [1]
Tracking the escaped Giant-Born to Carcassonne in France, Aquaman enlisted the help of Wonder Woman who with the help of Daniel Evans put a stop to the evil abominations.[2]
An unstoppable Algae monster had began terrorizing the ocean, killing everything in it's way. Looking for a solution to the problem Aquaman and Ya'Wara went searching for the Swamp Thing in hopes of answers. However when confronting the Avatar of the Green no answers were given and he simply fled.[3]
When Aquaman returned to combat the monster Swamp Thing was trying to commune with it, he then had Swamp Thing eaten by Sea-cows before turning to the Algae monster. Aquaman called on his Atlantean forces to destroy the creature but then it fell apart. As it happened Swamp Thing had learned that it was a part of the uber-consciousness of all plant life that split off and formed a baby reality called Kreuzblütler, which Swamp Thing was able to destroy internally.[4]
Issues
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #26
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #27
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #28
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #29
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #30
- Aquaman Annual (Volume 7) #2
- Aquaman (Volume 7) #31
- Swamp Thing (Volume 5) #32
Recommended Reading
Links and References
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