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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Beautiful...but i'm a Namor's Fan!
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Greg Kirkpatrick
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I don't know why people think of Aquaman as the "joke" of the JLA?
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I think that seems to stem from the Super-Friends cartoons where Aquaman contributed very little unless there was a body of water around. But he did ride a giant seahorse.
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Michael Arndt
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Love this Aquaman commission. I really would love to see JB see what he could do with the character. I have really enjoyed seeing some of these DC characters as commissions in the last few days. Brings back some wonderful memories of my childhood.
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Chad Carter
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Again, like with Barry Allen and Superman, it's not the character that is unremarkable and anachronistic and boring, it is the writers.
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Pedro Bouça
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Good piece, bu I must admit that not even JB is able to get me interested on Aquaman.
Love JB's Namor, though!
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Patrick T Ditton
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| Posted: 23 February 2007 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | 6
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JB --
Back to my question above - and for Pedro Bouca - what would you do with Aquaman to get people interested?
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Jason Fliegel
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Aquaman's current status quo is that the guy we all know and love has been missing since One Year Later, and there's a new Aquaman who is just learning the ropes -- so the hand issue has been mooted. It's a very enjoyable book, but it's not a superhero book, so if you're looking for a classic DC comic, it's not the book for you.
The problem with Aquaman in the JLA is that he's a character who works best in a specific environment (the sea), and none of the other JLA'ers really fit in there, so you've either got Aquaman out of his element or the rest of the JLA out of their element.
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Wallace Sellars
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I was expecting Namor as well, but this was a pleasant surprise. I don't like Aquaman as much as the Sub-Mariner, but I don't have anything against the character. In fact, I'd love to read a well-written/well-drawn Aquaman who has both of his hands!
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Carmen Bernardo
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Me, I'd like to know how that hair is staying in place. JB drew him like he was leaping out of water...
Good to see smiling superheroes, at any rate. I'm sick of these "dark & gritty" types laying their mitts on the characters. If anyone should be dark and gritty, it would be Wolverine, Namor (always has a bug up his ass), Jason Blood, Orion and (on a bad night) the Batman.
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Sam Karns
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He's one of my favorite character. Aquaman was THE one superhero I always wanted JB to handle. I hope it happens oneday. It's greeat to see a glimpse of what I dreamed the series could be.
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Andrew Hess
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wow, i've never seen any Golden Age Aquaman stories. That's a kick!
Where'd you find this, Nathan?
And I love the stories from Adventure and when he got his own series back, in the mid-70s. Micheline and Aparo at their finest, and the King of the Seas with his family. Brilliant stuff. I haven't been able to look at any of his stories in the last 30 years, including the JLA stuff. Too heart-breaking. Nobody seems to know what to do with him.
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Larry Bonds
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Unfortunately, Aquaman doesn't exist (in the OYL storyline) as we know and love him. They've turned him into some sort of squid-man and it's just creeping me out. I feel he deserved a better fate than that.
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