We are the Dora Milaje. We are the daughters of the 18 tribes of Wakanda. We are the teeth of the Panther God. Out of 10,000 years of sweat and bloodshed and battle are we born. We are the women of this ancient land. Deadliest of the species. And our time has come!
Another interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick:https://www.cbr.com/interview-kelly-...uaman-stories/
The dragging on too long is a common failing with current superhero arcs, so I see little reason to single out DeConnicks's run here. And while she has put aside elements that you judge important for now, it's not like she has unneeded subplots going on—two pages out of one hundred do not a subplot make. It's the flip side of bringing a razor focus on Aquaman as a person.
Maybe not affirmed to the "public" of the DC universe, but for us the readers, and for the mythic beings of the ocean, most definitely. And the "ridiculous cliffhanger" is very much a spirit quest thing. It's not similar to the Wally West situation at all, because we know what we see ain't necessarily so.
Abdication was done as a flashback to his prior runs, and he has abdicated or left the throne, lots of times. DeConnick simply acknowledges the history of the character.
Good read! I had drafted my line about DeConnick bringing a razor focus on Aquaman when I had already read it, and she really digs into those elements in the interview.
But then there was this other moment in the Johns run that I was really struck by, which was that his mother is this Atlantean princess, and his father is a human lighthouse keeper. And mom has to leave him to return to her duties. I just thought, "Abandonment. That's a great core wound." His dad takes him to the shore in the morning to look for mom. That's really like child abuse! But a mother's abandonment was really something I could play with. And I could tie it to his power set, because he can basically call every creature back to him except his mom. That's nice. There's something there, and going from there the idea of good mothers and bad mothers grew out of that notion.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
Yeah, these interviews are getting me waaaay more excited for what's coming than her earlier ones. It could be she has a better sense of Arthur's character now or maybe cause she got the "bring him back to land and throw some movie mojo in there" arc out of the way but I love how she talks about him. I didn't even dislike the first arc but I'm pumped.
Yeah that interview is not great for Aquaman and Mera fans. Looks like she's going for the long game with those two, but we'll see what this all entails. I'm a bit more uneasy about that going forward, but I'm still giving KSD a chance with those two. I'm also a touch worried that she didn't know that the plot with his mother was already resolved. Or that the editor didn't. It wasn't even five years ago.
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she said some things that left me very concerned, Tom Curry being abusive to his son? that ones home is determined by a dog not by who you are? as for mera and aquaman its was obvious with her being queen they cannot be together, it stands between them, she speaks of mistakes and consequences that makes me suspect who killed him was her. Probably also they are going to have also disagreements about Luthor's offer. She seems to have read only John's arc, as she had no idea about Atlanna and neither Aqualad
I recently just read that issue. The interior story is anything but cheese, it's one of the best Aquaman stories and the first appearance of Scavenger. It also had some crazy insane art of Aquaman summoning whales, something about the silver age Aquaman doing that just seems so much cooler than the current Aquaman doing it.
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The abuse comment seems more like Tom being unable to move on and bringing Arthur along on his hopeless pursuit is, in itself, abusive because he's not helping his son move on from trauma. In a sense, yes, that's abusive because his role as a father should supercede that as a abandoned lover, and yet he does not allow that wound to close for him or his son every day they visit the dock and look for her. The dog comment also is more along the lines of "it's where he chose to set up his family, ergo his truest home" and that was true for Arthur and Mera when they had a choice. She's not inherently wrong in coming to those conclusions, though the former comment seems a bit black-and-white.
I agree with you, however, that she seemed to ignore Parker's run and that's a real shame because I adored it. Arthur's reuniting with Atlanna was wonderful.
Jeff Parker's run was wonderful, much like all his work. Atlanna's return in that was powerful.
God I wish we were reading a new run by him on AQUAMAN.
I wouldn't be against that, certainly! Johns/Reis had such a good run on Aquaman and Parker/Pelletier rose to the impossible task of matching them. I'm a fan of Abnett too. Frankly, the only run I didn't enjoy since the New 52 was Bunn's. KSD hasn't been bad thus far, but I am tentatively worried going forward having read her interviews. We'll see how it pans out.
I truly hope KSD or her editor actually /has/ read the Parker run and knows of Atlanna's fate because I loved that take on her and her look was amazing.
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Sorry, but Atlanna is top marks for equal parts heroic, imposing and regal. Damn.
New interview with Kelly.
https://www.cbr.com/interview-kelly-...uaman-stories/