The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.

Six months later, Uncle Paul gets ready to present the aquanaut (or so everyone thinks) to the world. Instead, he has hired a man to play the aquanaut while the real sea creatures attempt an escape in a new suit. Paul wears a red beanie with his suit in homage to Jacques Cousteau and manages to get Mr. Lula and some other people to go away by telling them he needs to check the animals’ health. Unfortunately, the man in the suit trips over his boot on the stage, and his helmet falls off. This exposes Paul as a fraud, and Mr. Lula is irate. He demands to know where the real aquanaut is, but the real one has already gone to find Sophia. Inside her father’s journal is an escape plan for Aqualand, and Sophia and the aquanaut use it to get past the guards.

Paul sits in an office with the angry Mr. Lula, who demands to have the aquanaut back. Paul doesn’t care if he loses his job anymore because he can always go back to being a marine biologist in