And so what started out as New 52 Aquaman ends with not-New 52 labelled (but we’ll keep the numbering)-not-yet-Rebirth-Aquaman with Volume 8: Out of Darkness. Does Dan Abnett do any better than the quickly dismissed Cullen Bunn? Nope!
This book is so missable. Everything about the villain in this book is half-assed: it’s a fish monster called Dead Water. Oh, the imagination! Dead Water’s killing people because Abnett needed to fill pages and Aquaman’s gotta punch something! Can we say “Contrived Villain of the Week”?
Aquaman sets up Spindrift Station, Atlantis’ surface world embassy, which we see in the first Rebirth book so this is connected to that. But you really don’t need to read this to follow the events of Aquaman Rebirth, making this volume even more redundant. Mera decides to dress up like Aquaman and call herself Aquawoman (Dan Abnett once again proving to be Mr Imagination) but that bad idea thankfully didn’t make it to Rebirth.
Throw in some unfunny Jaws jokes, mediocre art, and the crummy first issue of Aquaman Rebirth and you’ve got a beached whale of a finale to a title that started so promisingly. Out of Darkness is a total waste of time even by Aquaman standards!
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