If You Wrote Comics: Aquaman

[Restingvoice]

Do it like New 52 Aquaman. They got it right except some timeline issue with Forever Evil.
Continue to explore the other kingdoms and write that Rise of The Seven Seas.

Oh and less throne takeover. I think I've got enough of those.

[Stanlos]

In honour of his debut on the big screen I decided to pull the trigger and make so welcome to another If You Wrote Comics thread. And topic on hand is Aquaman, the King of the Seas. As always the standard rules apply just imagine DC Comics gave full reign of Aquaman, his rogues gallery, and supporting characters and maybe even find a new direction for him. So as always let loose and live. And I will be throwing my hat into this and by simply changing Jackson Hyde into the Kaldurahm version because quite frankly the main version is very underwhelming and I can just reorganise ti so that Jackson was a junior apprentice of Silent School who Aquaman took on after Garth left.

I hope everyone's takes include NOT acknowledging any doofballs who joke about Aquaman. Johns early issues were soiled with this TryHard feel because of his doing that. Aquaman is awesome--deal with that as a given not a point of debate

[jorge17881]

Not sure about the story, but i want some of this stuff and the art. by Jorge Jimenez.

First issue, the wedding of mera and aquaman and everything begins and end good, they 2 marry and happy. King and Queen.

Then Atlanna return and become the queen of atlantis. Like in issue #10

More atlanteans.

New enemies.

A new weapon for Arthur.. with a cool name.

Lead a atlantean team ( aquaman, mera, dolphin, 3 new male characters, orm and tempest.

Queen clea and wonder woman make appearences.

More villains.. maybe poseidon, and more.

Edit: wait, i forgot to put more of arthur and diana friendship.

[Lee Stone]

When something is award winning shouldn't it set the sales charts on fire?

Not always.

From 2011 up to now-

2011:
Daredevil (best ongoing - Eisner; best ongoing/mini - Harvey) (sales: #1 - 64,866 (#6 - July); #2 - 40,990 (#32 - Aug.); #3 - 39,477 (#64 -Sept.); #4 - 40,311 (#61 - Sept.); #5 - 39,413 (#55 - Oct.); #6 - 38,302 (#58 - Nov.); #7 - 38,824 (#45 - Dec.)), Peak: #6
Criminal : The Last of the Innocent (best mini - Eisner) (sales: #1 - 14,849 (#148 - June); #2 - 13,453 (#150 - July); #3 - 13,265 (#166 - Aug.); #3 - 13,068 (#157 - Sept.)), Peak #148
Top Selling Comic: Justice League #1 - 230,100
Daredevil - Top 10 title, with peak sales of 65k
Criminal - Didn't break top 100, peak sales of 15k

2012:
Saga (best ongoing - Eisner; best ongoing/mini - Harvey) (sales: #1 - 37,641 (#40 - March) +9,641 (April) +4,484 (June); #2 - 36,885 (#48 - April) +6,252 (May); #3 - 38,895 (#57 - May); #4 - 41,143 (#47 - June); #5 - 40,556 (#44 - July); #6 - 40,584 (#46 - Aug.); #7 - 46,971 (#51 - Nov.) +6,296 (Jan.); #8 - 42,324 (#51 - Dec.) +6,641 (Feb.)), Peak: #40
Top Selling Comic: Walking Dead #100 - 353,200
Saga - Top 50 title, with peak sales of 47k before reorders

2013:
Saga (best ongoing - Eisner, best ongoing/mini - Harvey) (sales: #9 - 45,629 (#38 - Jan.); #10 - 48,388 (#36 - Feb.); #11 - 50,023 (#33 - Mar.); #12 - 53,339 (#27 - Apr.); #13 - 55,372 (#22 - Aug.) +5,079 (Sept.); #14 - 55,585 (#26 - Sept.); #15 - 54,816 (#30 - Oct.); #16 - 54,593 (#24 - Nov.); #17 - 53,264 (#29 - Dec.)), Peak: #22
The Wake (best mini - Eisner) (sales: #1 - 44,867 (#40 - May); #2 - 29,306 (#73 - June); #3 - 27,560 (#89 - July); #4 - 31,674 (#88 - Sept.); #5 - 30,463 (#69 - Nov.)), Peak: #40
Top Selling Comic: Walking Dead #115 - 329,300
Saga - Top 50 title, with peak sales of 56k before reorders
The Wake - Top 50 title, with peak sales of 45k

2014:
Saga (best ongoing - Eisner, best ongoing/mini - Harvey) (sales: #18 - 53,139 (#22 - Jan.); #19 - 55,422 (#21 - May); #20 - 56,497 (#19 - June); #21 - 55,893 (#30 - July); #22 - 55,803 (#21 - Aug.); #23 - 56,162 (#33 - Sept.); #24 - 55,534 (#27 - Oct.)), Peak: #19
Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland (best mini - Eisner) (sales: #1 - 11,883 (#167 - Aug.); #2 - 8,130 (#251 - Oct.); #3 - 6,320 (#265 - Dec.),) Peak: #167
Top Selling Comic: Amazing Spider-Man #1 - 559,217
Saga - Top 20 title, with peak sales of 56k
Little Nemo - Didn't break top 100, with peak sales of 12k

2015:
Southern Bastards (best ongoing - Eisner) (sales: #7 - 17,523 (#124 - Feb.); #8 - 17,473 (#171 - Apr.); #9 - 18,327 (#128 - June); #10 - 25,741 (#98 - July); #11 - 17,306 (#128 - Oct); #12 - 16,681 (#136 - Nov.)), Peak: #98
Saga (best ongoing/mini - Harvey) (sales: #25 - 55,972 (#19 - Feb.); #26 - 54,892 (#21 - Mar.); #27 - 54,897 (#30 - Apr.); #28 - 55,239 (#28 - May); #29 - 55,131 (#30 - June); #30 - 60,937 (#23 - July); #31 - 53,980 (#36 - Nov.); #32 - 51,850 (#41 - Dec.)), Peak: #19
The Fade Out (best mini - Eisner) (sales: #4 - 23,902 (#90 - Jan.); #5 - 22,303 (#134 - Apr.); #6 - 20,678 (#118 - May); #7 - 20,191 (#119 - June); #8 - 19,413 (#118 - Aug.); #9 - 18,201 (#121 - Sept.); #10 - 17,582 (#127 - Oct); #11 - 16,785 (#135 - Nov.)), Peak: #90
Top Selling Comic: Star Wars #1 - 1,073,027
Southern Bastards - Top 100 title, with peak sales of 26k
Saga - Top 20 title, with peak sales of 61k
The Fade Out - Top 100 title, with peak sales of 24k

2016:
Saga (best ongoing - Eisner) (sales: #33 - 50,415 (#26 - Jan.), #34 - 49,363 (#24 - Feb.); #35 - 48,845 (#28 - Mar.); #36 - 48,957 (#36 - Apr.); #37 - 50,016 (#57 - Aug.); #38 - 48,106 (#55 - Sept.); #39 - 46,749 (#55 - Oct.); #40 - 44,944 (#52 - Nov.); #41 - 43,628 (#49 - Dec.)), Peak: #24
The Vision (best mini - Eisner) (sales: #3 - 34,807 (#53 - Jan.); #4 - 19,070 (#113 - Feb.); #5 - 18,636 (#106 - Mar.); #6 - 19,028 (#110 - Apr.); #7 - 19,623 (#96 - May); #8 - 22,460 (#98 - June); #9 - 20,785 (#111 - July); #10 - 20,523 (#125 - Aug.): #11 - 20,142 (#114 - Sept.); #12 - 19,840 (#132 - Oct.)), Peak: #53
No Harvey Awards this year
Top Selling Comic: Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York #1 - 421,625
Saga - Top 50 title, with peak sales of 50k
The Vision - Top 100 title, with peak sales of 35k

Daredevil - 65k, ends period at 39k
Saga - 61k, ends period at 44k
The Wake - 45k, ends period at 30k
The Vision - 35k, ends period at 20k
Southern Bastards - 26k, ends period at 17k
The Fade Out - 24k, ends period at 17k
Criminal - 15k, ends period at 13k
Little Nemo - 12k, ends period at 6k

Btw, I'm expecting Mister Miracle to get an award for best mini from either the Eisners or the Harveys this year, although Black Panther could give it a challenge with the Eisner.
And Saga isn't being nominated for an ongoing series Eisner this year.

Here are the Eisner nominees for 2017 material:

Best Continuing Series-
Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and David Rubín (Dark Horse)
Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Liz Fleming (BOOM! Box)
Hawkeye, by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, and Mike Walsh (Marvel)
Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image) <- my guess

Best Limited Series-
Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)
Extremity, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)
The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC)
Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC) <- my guess
X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor (Marvel)

[Flash Gordon]

Do it like New 52 Aquaman. They got it right except some timeline issue with Forever Evil.
Continue to explore the other kingdoms and write that Rise of The Seven Seas.

Oh and less throne takeover. I think I've got enough of those.

I'd like to see Arthur actually governing. What are his platforms? How does he interact with everyday Atlantean society? I'd love seeing Mera and Arthur both dealing with "everyday" average Atlanteans.

I want much less of the Game of Thrones looking world, and a move towards a more socially advanced Atlantis with a holistic mixture of old world ruins and new age technology. Much more of a unique feel to the sea kingdom along with more thought put into the culture (clothing, diet, healthcare, education, social norms), and just the movement and existence of ocean dwelling humanoids.

Arthur actually creating policy and running a sovereign state apparatus while also adventuring/daring-do. Mera, Tula, Orm, Vulko, Garth, Murk (who can keep the hook but needs a little redesign), plus plenty of new characters.

Political intrigue of course would come with the territory for a superhero who is the head of state, but I'd try and steer clear of giant crown-seizing conflicts....for a while.

[Black Manta]

I'd like to see Aquaman as a typical superhero. I agree with the constant throne struggles. Sick of those. Shouldn't Atlantis (and Wakanda) be democracies by now anyway?