A new story starts with this issue, as it opens with a large dinosaur-like creature cruising the ocean depths. Meanwhile, Aquaman is getting examined at S.T.A.R. Labs, where one of their doctors tells them that since he has been going for days and days without sleep, barely eating and under tremendous stress, he desperately needs rest. After much cajoling from the doctors and Arthur's U.N. contact, he reluctantly agrees to put himself in a sort of water-filled sleep chamber to get some enforced downtime. Of course, that's not gonna last...