The Aqua(man) family Appreciation 2024

[dkrook]

What are you talking about? Atlantis (both DC and Marvel) and Themyscira have been a major topic of focus since their main leads debuted.

Relax, my suggestion wasn't an absolute. Lol, switch to decaf.

[Frontier]

Made any sense only in continuity where Death of a prince never happened.

Even without that he's basically a terrorist who has tried to kill her dad numerous times.

[lalalei2001]

[Frontier]

This is cute .

Kind of reminds me of that scene in the Thrones of Atlantis animated movie where he got in a fight to free some lobsters.

[marvelprince]

If this is true and Aquaman and Mera remember having a baby MURDERED by Black Manta, can we please have them act like it? Meaning no more of this crap where DC tries to paint Black Manta as an anti-hero. The dude MURDERED a baby of a super-hero couple. That Aquamen mini was ridiculous considering BM's past. No one in the DCU should ever give this guy a pass on his past.

I feel they’ve ruined the dynamic with Aquaman and Manta with Aquamen. The pure blood feud always on site nature of Manta and Arthur were somewhat unique and I really enjoyed that. I get wanting to mix things
Up but having them team up and working together feels so wrong.

[Mantis-Ray]

This stems from the issue that Chuck Brown for whatever reason wanted to turn Manta into a hero.

Luckily they have appeared to have largely ignored that since, with even Brown's recent Beast World Waller Rising special fully portraying Manta as a villain.

[marvelprince]

This stems from the issue that Chuck Brown for whatever reason wanted to turn Manta into a hero.

Luckily they have appeared to have largely ignored that since, with even Brown's recent Beast World Waller Rising special fully portraying Manta as a villain.

Yeah I could get behind that take more with him and other heroes,
But with Aquaman it should never be peace. Should be problems always.

[lalalei2001]

In Peter David's Aquaman run (Volume 5) #46, Aquaman deliberately gets himself killed by Triton so he can rescue Poseidon from Hades (the place). Hades (the god) agrees to let them both go, but on the condition that Aquaman owes him a favor (he deems it on par with the deal he made with Orpheus).

Was this favor ever called in before Hades' death in Wonder Woman Vol 2 #217?

[lalalei2001]

Drowning IS awfully inconvenient. XD

[married guy]

In Peter David's Aquaman run (Volume 5) #46, Aquaman deliberately gets himself killed by Triton so he can rescue Poseidon from Hades (the place). Hades (the god) agrees to let them both go, but on the condition that Aquaman owes him a favor (he deems it on par with the deal he made with Orpheus).

Was this favor ever called in before Hades' death in Wonder Woman Vol 2 #217?

Not to my knowledge it wasn't.

[married guy]

In fairness to Aquaman 2 making less, movies in general have been doing badly for a long while and its been hitting everyone. There have been some successes here and there, but the movie industry is doing really badly as a whole currently.

Amusingly Aquaman 2 at least made more than The Marvels, another movie that made far less than its billion dollar predecessor.

I didn't and still don't understand the hate for Aquaman 2.
I loved it, so did the kids and for a true barometer, so did my wife!
She also liked the first one but walked out the cinema saying this one was better.
(She also HATED the Marvels)

[Frontier]

Drowning IS awfully inconvenient. XD

Atlatean elitism .

[M@Bowers2014]

I feel they’ve ruined the dynamic with Aquaman and Manta with Aquamen. The pure blood feud always on site nature of Manta and Arthur were somewhat unique and I really enjoyed that. I get wanting to mix things
Up but having them team up and working together feels so wrong.

I totally agree. Aquaman teaming up with Orm might've been interesting but Black Manta? The guy that murdered Aquaman's son in cold blood should NEVER be considered an ally. At least not as casually as it was done in that mini. Plus it just wasn't that good of a story. If you are going to have them team up make it a good story at least. With the whole everything happened continuity now in play I want Aquaman and Mera to remember what happened. Then I want them to hunt Black Manta down no matter how long it takes.

[Riv86672]

Hey does anyone know what issue of Aquaman this is from?



I’ve had zero luck figuring it out. Any help would be appreciated.

[Bruce Wayne]

It looks like it's from the Sub-Diego period since it's drawn by Chris Batista.