Aquaman doesn't get enough respect.
I know I said that about Superman too, but I don't have to explain the difference. Seriously, even you non-comic fans, when you hear the name Aquaman, isn't the very first word that pops into your head "lame"?
I blame SUPERFRIENDS. I really do. He would have been just another character to evolve and develop quietly within the comic book world if it weren't for that show reaching the general mainstream masses. As such, he's a pop culture icon of lameness.
And it's a real shame. This is a character who's the King of Atlantis, ruler of the seas! By that fact alone, the fucker
rules the Earth! A great Aquaman story should be like a combination of I, CLAUDIUS, THE ABYSS, THE TUDORS, ANIMAL MAN, LORD OF THE RINGS, and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, with magic, superheroics, political intrigue, environmentalism, classical mythology all wrapped in one orange chain-mail shirt!
Hell,
even Patton Oswalt knows how awesome Aquaman is! But no matter how many solid Aquaman stories there are, until we truly do see a James Cameron type pull a BATMAN BEGINS with a movie version, he's still going to be the guy who talks to fish.
Because, seriously. If you piss Aquaman off, he will
fuck your shit up.Would that I had the scans from the Alex Ross/Paul Dini story to prove that Aquaman will ride up on a fucking
whale, carrying a huge goddamn spear and surrounded by all the ocean's denizens he could summon, all for the express purpose of kicking some evil surface-dweller ass. But let me assure you, if you
really piss him off by, say, clubbing some baby seals, he won't stop there. Oh no.
He will throw a fucking polar bear at you. Possibly the polar bear from LOST, if he's really cheesed off. So show Aquaman some damn respect.
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