
When I first heard that the book was changing title, storyline, and--gasp!--main character, I was admittedly very skeptical. Busiek's idea sounded like Savage Sword of Aquaman The Barbarian to me, in yet another vain effort to re-jigger a supposedly ailing character.
Almost a year in, I can now admit I was wrong--Busiek and Guice definitely had a long-range, thought-out plan in mind, and the story's been told very well to this point. I have always felt that Aquaman, for the last decade or so, has suffered from being--forgive the pun--neither fish nor fowl. He wasn't given all the standard trappings of a mainstream superhero character--secret identity, consistent base of operations, large Rogues' Gallery--yet all the things that made him different were sort of cut off at the edges, to make it more like a standard superhero book. Writers and editors never fully committed him to either approach, so I think as a character he's suffered mightily.
This time Busiek has decided to push Aquaman fully into the latter, seperating him almost entirely from the regular DCU and creating a whole other world for him to operate in. And while I wish Aquaman would get a shot to be in full-on Superhero Mode, I think Busiek's idea was good one. Aquaman: SOA doesn't look or feel like any other DCU book on the stands.
As for the new Aquaman? He's not a bad character at all, and I'm enjoying watching him assume the mantle. I do hope that the original Arthur Curry returns, and maybe there's room enough in the ocean for both of them. I still haven't yet figured out whether it's Aquaman I love, or Arthur Curry as Aquaman. I don't know what I'd do if I was a Flash fan...
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The next day, they did a nice little write-up about it on the Fun page of their company site, which you can see here! I'm so glad they liked what I wrote, because I sure do love the doll...more Aquaman products, please!
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That is one cool looking shark guy on the cover! And is Aquaman teaming up with The Spectre back there?
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