I Think Peter David's Aquaman Run Is Overrated

[kcekada]

It's been forever since I read that series, but I will say it lost much of its punch as PAD left. I ever saw Engeland as an answer to Image artist, but I thought he was a good, dynamic penciller who disappeared from the biz way too soon. I don't see much similarity between his work and McFarlane's. It looked like Arthur Adams may have been his main influence.

I'm guess PAD was given some direction about making Aquaman a lot different than he was in the Silver Age -- and that may be why Mera was kept out of it for most of the run (a mistake, IMHO). I know he was planning on bringing her back when he was removed from the title. There were some eye rolling moments in his run -- probably a relection of that era, but all in all -- I thought it was a good run.

[Hypestyle]

who was the mother of Arthur's eldest son? Where was she from, originally?

[Timber Wolf-By-Night]

who was the mother of Arthur's eldest son? Where was she from, originally?

Kako, an Inuit girl who, under PAD's pen, was his first love. She eventually was turned into a fire elemental named Corona. Johns probaby retconned her (and Koryak) out of continuity.
He certainly was the one who tossed a bunch of Aquaman-related characters and concepts into Atlantis during Infinite Crisis, including Koryak, just so a mad host-less Spectre could grow to giant size and literally stomp Atlantis into pieces, killing all those characters and concepts off in one fell swoop.