Filed under: DC Comics | Tags: aquaman, dc, GeoffJohns, harryhill, ivanreis, joeprado, mera, rodreiss
On the subject of everyone’s favourite heir to Atlantis, I feel mightily conflicted. After enjoying the first two or three issues, mainly due to the excellently timed self deprecating humour, I found myself feeling frustrated at the pace the book was moving along at and therefore dropped the title. I’m crazy for Bendis’ Ultimate Spidey so I’m comfortable with heavily decompressed story telling and I have enjoyed books by Johns before. This leads me to wonder, is the problem with Aquaman or with me? Continue reading
Filed under: Comic Reviews, DC Comics | Tags: aquaman, DCNew52, Geoff Johns, Ian Reis
Issue #1 of Aquaman was hysterical and the main reason I decided to pick up issue #2, so it’s a little disappointing that this one didn’t live up to the first issue – so what’s the problem?
Filed under: Comic Reviews, DC Comics | Tags: aquaman, Batman, DCNew52, Geoff Johns, Green Lantern, Jim Lee, Justice League, Superman, The Flash, wonderwoman
Ok, so we probably got carried away with ourselves last month when we got the first glimpse of the first DCNew52, Justice League. DC’s hype-machine had been running for month’s ahead of the launch, we’d just come out of a Flashpoint high and we were ready to explode at the anticipation of a new world and new costumes. 51 issues later and we are in a much better position to see what JL#1 was really like – i.e. note quite the best of the bunch. But what does #2 do to try and improve on this?
Filed under: Comic Reviews, DC Comics | Tags: aquaman, DCNew52, GeoffJohns, ivanreis
Hands up who likes Aquaman? Calm down ‘AquamanShrine’, everyone knows you LOVE Aquaman. Anyone else? Anybody? C’mon somebody? No? Really?