Aquaman #46
Recap
Arthur tries to rescue Callie from Namma the vengeful goddess of salt. Can he succeed or will Namma succeed in wiping out life on Earth?
Review
Wow! This arc really stepped into high gear these last two issues and became something insanely impressive. Normally I despise amnesia stories but I got so excited when Arthur inadvertantly sent out a telepathic distress call and Mera heard it, holy crap so cool! Not to mention Arthur literally rides a dragon how cool is that? Kelly Sue Deconnick has turned full 180 on this arc and that last page has me so excited for next issue!
I absolutely love the old gods feeling ashamed for sending Arthur and Callie instead of going themselves, I wasn’t sure if we were gonna spend much time back in the Village of Unspoken Water, the old gods contained were the most interesting part of the first two issues of this arc. So unsurprisingly they appear to be integral to the conclusion.
The art by Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques and Sunny Cho is just breathtaking, I seriously just love it on every page. The splash page dragon reveal is seriously some next level stuff I would love a poster of. There are some really interesting things being done with panel layouts as well that are noteworthy.
I do want to note that although the cover art is fine I despise the cover blurbs, they read like bronze age Marvel covers and it doesn’t fit the book at all.
Final Thoughts
This arc has evolved into a can't miss story worthy of far more praise than it's getting. Read it.
Aquaman #46: Battle
- Writing - 9/109/10
- Storyline - 9/109/10
- Art - 10/1010/10
- Color - 10/1010/10
- Cover Art - 8/108/10
User Review
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This is utter nonsense. This book has nothing of the traditional Aquaman trademarks. None of the characters we know and that have embellished the history of Aquaman throughout the years. Seems fans are not pleased either as the sales are dropping issue after issue. Whatever happened to Mera? reduced to a mere two panels. Either KellySue manages to fix things and don’t get any strange ideas of splitting Arthur from Mera, or cancellation is on the horizon.
You mean a story where the hero is taken out of his element (a literal fish out of water story) takes our hero out of his element? Shocker! In the wake of multiple middling crossovers and a whole lot of nothing this is a breath of fresh air.
Fresh of breath air? are you joking these are rehashed old Aquaman stories, nothing new. He fought new gods before. Nothing new and the characters are dull as rocks.
Not even a 1% of Geoff Jones epic run.
The sales indicated this and soon it can get cancelled especially if Mera is separated for good from Arthur, as it is hinted
Introducing new characters per se is not wrong, but these are old Aquaman stories retold. The hint they want to marry off Mera, is possibly the final nail in the coffin. Aquaman is much about Mera as about Arthur, one of them out, the book is doomed. I hope Kellysue won’t do the unthinkable because by November the book would be dropped by DC. Its on the drop watch list.
Introducing new characters per se is not wrong, but these are old Aquaman stories retold. The hint they want to marry off Mera, is possibly the final nail in the coffin. Aquaman is much about Mera as about Arthur, one of them out, the book is doomed.