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Mother and Daughter
19 years makes you still a teen, whatever her age it was ridiculous and even more how their story ended in just two panels. PAD maimed Aquaman as few others, no wonder nobody followed on what he left. No wonder why DC had to resort to various reboots of the character after PAD until Johns appeared.
PAD Aquaman seemed like the soap operas of the 80's Dallas and Dynasty, with a son coming out from nowhere, who tries to overthrow his father, that father dated a girl who could be his daughter, who leaves him for a younger man, he also has an ex crazy wife and son who lives with her.
Since this is a Mera thread, PAD wasn't even able to see what potential Mera had.
Where was her age even stated?
Later writers not following up on what PAD did is not a mark against his run. DC has rebooted and retconned multiple beloved and iconic stories simply because they could. They did it with Perez and Rucka's Wonder Woman, with Cassandra Cain, with everything about Wally West. PAD was the reason anyone in the 90s even gave a damn about Aquaman and the character would have languished as a joke and relic from the Silver Age if not for him. Hell, he introduced the first main character of color into the Aquaman mythos years before Lorena and Jackson showed up so getting rid of everything he did isn't without its own unfortunate implications.
He brought Mera back eventually and there was nothing about his run that needed to be tossed out. Johns pretty much followed the same formula as David, the only major difference is he used Mera and other characters he was interested in instead of utilizing the rest of the cast. It's not as if Mera had anything interesting going for her at the time of the 90s. She's only an interesting character because of Johns.
Also, where was this ever stated?
Ah, glad she was just as old as his surrogate son who she later married. Not creepy at all to be dating someone your kid's age.
Well-drawn as that scene is, considering how much she hated being referred to as Aquawoman, I really didn't enjoy her putting the costume on. Glad that thread dropped in Rebirth.
Again, Garth was never Arthur's son. I am not exactly a Dolphin/Arthur shipper but this situation is not a Bruce/Barbara thing.
That is objectively not true. Regardless of your feelings about the run, it's the reason DC continued to see Aquaman as a viable comic IP well into the 21st Century.PAD's run did nobody any favors.