Quick thoughts on comics: Aquaman #1
Woo. Hurm. Um. So I actually kind of enjoyed this. And it’s embarrassing for me to admit this, not because I think Aquaman is lame, I thought Grant Morrison always wrote him well in JLA, so I always thought he had the potential to be a good character, but I have gone a long time absolutely hating everything Geoff Johns has written for some time.
My biggest complaint with Johns is that he really works too hard to make a lot of continuity matter, when it doesn’t always need to, and make goofy continuity from outdated comics seem important.
Grant Morrison is a good example of a write that takes goofy shit and re-invents it into something new, like what he did with shitty Batman stories from the 60s and turned them into hallucinations brought on by isolation experiments, and shit like that.
But Johns took away my biggest complaint about his writing style by having Aquaman actively walk away from his past and that was huge. I thought he leaned a little too hard on the “Aquaman is a joke” thing, but the other parts of the set up with the creepy undersea monsters was pretty good.
Ivan Reis is a pretty decent artist and does a good job with anything, though his work has never really excited me.
Still. I’m enjoying TWO comics by Geoff Johns in this relaunch. Granted, both do away with continuity to some degree, so Johns has that in his favour (at least in my eyes), but who would have thought. I may have to eat some crow over this.
