A giant monster shows up and it’s totally uninvolving to see because you know Aquaman’s gonna beat him - and he does.
There are no real stakes, no consequences, no tension to anything that’s happening.
The problems lie in how flat the stories read. (Gets up, stretches, checks pulse to see if still alive) Some underwater Nazis try to assassinate Mera because she’s not of pure Atlantean blood to be their queen and Arthur fights some other sea monster. Sigh… ok…Īquaman goes looking for Swamp Thing because of something happening in his storyline which I’m not up on as I haven’t been reading Swampy’s recent issues (too much oxygen in the atmosphere? Algae in the sea?). Ok…Īrthur goes to his high school reunion, some nutbar steals his trident - which is just lying around in his house! - and summons forth Wonder Woman’s half brother, Hercules, along with some demons from Atlantis’ Hell or something. So, the book itself: Arthur fights the Kraken (or Karaqan as it’s referred to here), a giant kaiju-type monster that’s destroying Iceland for no reason. Well, so what? What am I supposed to think when I read that title? Because all I see is nothing. Can you think of a more unimaginative, bland title for an Aquaman book? How about “Ocean of Waves”? “Fish in Water”? Sea of Storms - storms happen in the sea every day. Let’s look at the subtitle because this encapsulates the main problem of this book, namely that it’s hella boring: “Sea of Storms”. Jeff Parker, the writer of the excellent Batman ‘66, takes over Aquaman after Geoff Johns’ four-volume run, and I wish I could say Parker’s Aquaman is the equal of Batman ‘66 - but unfortunately it really isn’t.
Anyways a meh, good one time read but the art was nice for the most part. The whole volume feels like a story with great ideas but poor execution and they could have used more character exploration rather than explaining threats so vaguely. honestly that part was super unnecessary now that I think about it but good to see Arthur interact beyond the tradition JL line up but that also had potential but was wasted upon. Arthur fights off against a Kraken and also dealing with people labelling him things after the last volume and well troubles in Atlantis too but when monsters from past start attacking called Giant-born he has to fight them and well knock them doing back to where they came from and there is also a part with Hercules and it was kinda bad and I didn't like that but then comes Diana and they fight more Giant-born and at that stage what was supposed to be a volume filled with potential it misses out big time but then again Arthur and Mera and Diana battling greek-myths were great and it also gives an insight into their friendship.Īnd then the part with Swamp thing was confusing and weird but good battle between the two.
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