Wow, Aquaman is sort of a bad ass now!

Back in the early days of the New 52 I was not the biggest fan of this series – I was tired of the consent jokes about Aquaman being lame and talking to fish and other repetitive and “by the numbers” beats that Geoff Johns seemed to be fascinated with giving us. It felt rushed. Passionless.

Needless to say I was not impressed but kept reading to see how things played out – plus that art was fucking gorgeous.

Then something started to happen – I started to get into the story Johns was telling. We’ve all heard the term “Slow Burn” many many times in comic book reviews, and never was that term more appropriate then here in Aquaman.

Johns has taken his sweet time in building a world around Aquaman that I want to read about and spend time in and see the characters that he has populated it with. I am now fascinated by it. There are multiple story-lines that give this book an EPIC feel and a must read for any DCU fan.

This is good stuff.

This title is vintage Geoff Johns. The same Geoff Johns that gave us Green Lantern Rebirth and the incredible JSA – not the Geoff Johns that gave us the New 52 Justice League. There is now a passion in this title was not there in the beginning.

And much like the characters in this comic that once made fun of the man that could talk to fish – I was wrong about Aquaman.