Rating: 4/5
Maybe I'm being a bit generous with my rating on this one, but it is probably the best book I've read so far from Aspen. It shares some of the faults I've noticed with their other books, but not to the same extent.
Anyway, this book is about a group of super powered people working for the U.S. government. They are from a race of people living in the planet's oceans known as the Blue. They've been recruited to both stop other Blue from harming humanity and work toward creating peace between the two races. It starts off a bit clichéd and the characters take some time to truly become distinct. The story builds in a good way and while the book ends on a cliffhanger, it left some promise for this series to develop really well.
As mentioned, the characters were one of the issues I had with the book. They start off somewhat flat, but they develop personality as it goes on. Some of the tropes that are used in the beginning help bolster them rather than drag them down. For the most part I enjoyed the art. One thing Aspen tends to do is throw full page pinups of their female characters in skimpy outfits into the story at some point. Blue did not suffer from that problem nearly as much as their other books.
This is a slow building story, or at least it was for me. Part of that might be due to the writing/characters in the early portion of the book. It picks up steam though and definitely left me feeling like there is potential behind this story.
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