SUB-MARINER #6Written by Matt Cherniss & Peter Johnson
Art by Philippe Briones
This mini-series started with such promise, but the quality seems to have declined with each subsequent issue.
If you've been following this series at all, this last issue won't offer anything you haven't already guessed. As the first issue revealed, "Namor's" skeleton was found on the throne of a destroyed Atlantis sometime in the future. Well, with the introduction of Namor's son as the villain of this story, it was pretty easy to figure out it was actually his skeleton found on that throne and this issue show us all the details in a predictable fashion.
Basically, Namor decides that instead of letting SHIELD have an underwater military outpost on the outskirts of Atlantis, it would be smarter to blow the entire city up while sneaking his people out of the city in hidden, underground tunnels. The other option was destroying the surface world, so I guess we lucked out on this one. But, where are all these people going to go? Why, they'll all become sleeper cells, planting themselves in cities scattered all over the world. It's apparently a brilliant plan that makes no ssense, whatsoever, to me. As well, it took the entire issue to show him blowing up the city.
The only actual surprise or thing of note from this issue was the surprise ending. While Namor sent the entire population of Atlantis away, he kept the army with him and the issue ended by showing where he took that army - to ally with Dr Doom.
Verdict - Check It. I only say Check It because of the ending with Doom. I thought it was a great ending to an otherwise uneventful story and I hope this is building towards some event that would star Doom for a change.
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