The premise of this story confuses me. A man discovers that another man craves his wife. So he takes his wife on a boat to confront the man on his sailboat. He then challenges the man on the sailboat to a swimming contest for the ownership (?) of his wife. Which is the bit that doesn’t make sense – why not just go somewhere else?

Logic is not strong with this one, as we find out on this page. He went on the dive, leaving his wife alone up top with at least one other man. She does not fare well and – in subsequent pages,- we are led to believe that she is raped and beaten. I think that even the level of violence we’re given on this page is a bit too much.

(Heavy Metal issue #158, September 1995 – Page 81 Versus: Playing Deep by Beroy)