Aquaman #2

The art in Aquaman #2 doesn't quite live up to the art from the first one. Perhaps that's because they had more than a month deadline to get the first issue together. But a lot of the panels seem less worked than they should be, a little sketchy. And some just look downright goofy:



The art isn't bad at all. It's just very inconsistent. Some panels look polished while some look like they were quickly sketched out to get the page done.

As for the story, it's a lot more comic booky than the previous one. A bunch of people are killed by some hungry fish creatures who constantly make a weird sound effect.


I don't know what it's doing! HWAANK!

Aquaman and Mera do a lot of fighting and beating things up with a little bit of Aquaman's history fighting for space.

Aquaman and Mera's time at home is juxtaposed with their dealing with land dwellers later in the comic. Even though they just want to live quietly on land, Mera can't seem to stomach the way the military and authority figures treat Aquaman, King of Atlantis.

I was just complaining about the way the Justice League had to get beaten down before they could rise up and save the day and how that always seems to be the way. But Aquaman and Mera kick ass from the beginning of the fight with the fish men to the end. Okay, so it isn't completely over yet. But besides Aquaman getting bit by the Biggest of the Villain of the Month, it doesn't really faze him much. He also gets spit on and called food. But I think Aquaman hears much worse from gawkers on the streets of Boston.

And apparently Mera can do this with water:



Did she used to be able to do this in the old comics? Like I said in my preview of Aquaman, I really didn't follow him and his much.