Straightforward story lines.
An underwater Antarctic scientific study team has gone missing, and its up to a specialized trio of US Navy-led deep sea divers to retrieve them. We get introduced to them and their mission is pretty straight forward. One suspects that there won't be any survivors but since there was radio contact right up to the end there's still a shred of hope. The divers get into their vessel deep under the Antarctic ice shelf to discover wonders quite unexpected.
What made me like this comic after the handful that I read before was its very concise and direct story telling. Frank avoided flashbacks, murky motivation, military or governmental conspiracies and just kept it a direct rescue/action story line (does anyone remember The Thunderbirds?).
A lot of writers could take a cue from this. When you're telling a story your reader is making their first baby steps in getting to know the characters, setting, conflict and hoped-for outcome. Too many times they get impatient and try to derail your enjoyment by throwing in too early something from their bag of surprises. They're hoping you'll like it, but usually it spoils the enjoyment by coming too soon.
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