Plunging Back In

A review of Sea of Sorrows #1–2

This is a quick review because there’s not a lot to say about the book. It’s one of the first random books I bought off the rack last year once I resolved to review comics again. I don’t check any preview sites because I like as few spoilers as possible. Besides, a book like this already wears it’s premise on its sleeve. I took my time with writing about the book partly because real world events kept me distracted, but also the book bothered me a little. Willing to admit the problem is me, but hear me out.

Writer Rich Doek’s premise is straightforward. There’s a shipment of gold at the bottom of the ocean in a downed German submarine from World War One. A German (proto-Nazi at best, so he can live for now ) is looking to retrieve it with a ship captain and his crew, complete with an expert diver who’s also a shell-shocked war vet. The diver finds the gold and also sees this mermaid like creature. The horror picks up from there at a nice pace all the way to and through the second issue.

It’s fun, but I also can’t help the feeling that I’m just reading an overwrought movie treatment.