I want to like this book. I want to feel excited for it when I pick it up. I want to be able to enjoy getting reintroduced to a character the way how Geoff Johns can get you excited for a character that you never knew you liked. Ultimately, I'm just bored.
Let's get everyone up to speed on this book. Aquaman has daddy issues. Aquaman isn't taken seriously. Aquaman gets attacked by a blogger. Then by some unknown sea creatures in need of food. Aquaman gets it on with Mera. Aquaman has a man who somehow trained him and taught him his powers even though the man knows nothing about Atlantis besides wanting to be taken there. Then Aquaman decides to go into The Trench where those unknown sea creatures came from. And he has a bad ass trident.
Excited? Feel the desire to keep on reading more? Well, you can't, because that's the whole story done so far. In three issues.
This comic is frustrating to me for several reasons that are in the previous reviews. I know Geoff Johns can be a slow burner when it comes to stories and he is best read in trade form, but he has the magic of being able to tell a complete story in one issue. He did it before when he would feature one of the Flash's rogues in a single issue of Flash and tell a complete story all within that one issue.
He didn't do that with Aquaman in the first issue. Kinda strange. You would think if they want to entice new readers to the character then you would do something like that with a company wide relaunch. So then I reasoned that since Justice League starting picking up in the third issue, and Green Lantern has been doing better (both written by Johns), then maybe the third issue would bring the bang that I've felt has been necessary since the beginning. And I'm still waiting.
The art has been one of the most consistent things about this book. Its good art, lots of details. It has a good story telling technique. It has been the only thing impressive with this book in all of the three issues. Reis is an artist that I've seen before and has worked with Johns on Green Lantern. What he could do with the space creatures in Green Lantern was amazing, and I'm sad to see that its taken Aquaman three issues before he goes into the sea and gives Reis something that would be amazing for a reader to see.
I just realized that. Aquaman has yet to be in water when we are three issues in. I think that just about says it all, doesn't it?
Averages for issues #1-3:
Words: 3.6/10
Pictures: 7/10 - solid consistency.
Overall Grade for issues #1-3: Get this for the pictures. No need to stay for a story. 4/10.
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