For the whole week, I kept glancing at his cover in the stack and thinking it was a real cover for the issue. Now I'm disappointed!
Will somebody either make Cullen Bunn read this issue of Aquaman or at least roll it up and smack him on the head with it and say, "Bad! Bad writer!"? Because this is a good example of a story about Aquaman and not just about some pulp fiction character with every super power you can think of traveling through space and into fantasy worlds and battling invading forces while also having creepy sexual encounters who just happens to be named "Aquaman". This story also had Mera in a towel for multiple pages which is probably why I liked it so much. Also Aquadog returned although I think Cifuentes has a little bit of trouble drawing dogs. Maybe he'd be better at it if it had bigger tits and a thigh gap.
All Abnett had to do was write a story that sort of concentrated on one of Aquaman's traits and he would have written a better Aquaman story than Cullen Bunn. Instead, Abnett decides to incorporate as much Aquaman into this thing as he could fit. I wouldn't be surprised if he also took a huge steaming dump on Cullen Bunn's naked chest just to drive the point home. He did, at least, have Mera say "The Thule debacle" which I'm choosing to read as meaning "that fucking piece of shit Thule story that stunk up this comic book for nearly a year."
Nice job beginning the repair work on this title, Dan and company! I know comic book companies have exclusivity contracts. Can Marvel please get Cullen Bunn to sign one already?
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