Aquaman #14 [Brad Walker / Andrew Hennessy Cover]

(Early March 2017)

The Deluge Act Three (Table of Contents: 1)

Aquaman / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Dan Abnett

Pencils

Philippe Briones

Inks

Philippe Briones

Colors

Gabe Eltaeb

Letters

Pat Brosseau

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Aquamarines [Great White [Major Rhonda Ricoh]; Orca [Sergeant Dean Toye]; Octo [Sergeant Adrian Ballard]; Stone [Specialist Marcel Ollie]; Lion [Specialist Gary Kaleho]; Barracuda [Specialist Cory Wilks]]; Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Lieutenant Joanna Stubbs [Jo]; Murk; Rowa (Atlantean Elder of Science); Commander Michael Patrick Stubbs (deceased); Mera; Carcharodor (Atlantean Mistress of the Fleet); unnamed Atlantean soldiers; Koah (Atlantean Elder of Law, death); Zeekil Neol (Atlantean High Lord of the Armies, death); Seneschal Kae; Jurok Byss (Atlantean Keeper of the Monsters); Atlantean citizens; The Widowhood [Reverend Mother Cetea; Sister Balene; Sister Elasmar]; Black Manta [the Fisher King]; Black Jack; unnamed N.E.M.O. members

Synopsis

The Aquamarines infiltrate Atlantis on their mission to assassinate Aquaman. Arthur, with the help of Mera and Jurok Byss, is able to capture them, but High Lord Zeekil Neol and Elder Koah are killed in the attack and Seneschal Kae is critically injured. Sentiment among the Atlanteans is to retaliate against the US. Aquaman addresses his subjects and says he will make one last attempt to avoid war, but if he fails he will accept that war is inevitable and will step down as king of Atlantis. Aquaman then tracks a N.E.M.O. signal to their base and discovers that they are led by Black Manta.

Reprints

• in Aquaman (DC, 2017 series) #2 - Black Manta Rising ([June] 2017)
• in Aquaman (ECC Ediciones, 2012 series) #18 (Julio de 2017)
• in Aquaman (Panini Deutschland, 2017 series) #3 - Die Flut (Oktober 2017)
• in Aquaman Rebirth (Urban Comics, 2018 series) #2 - Le déluge (juin 2018)