Aquaman » Aquaman #1 - The Trench, Part One released by DC Comics on November 2011.
This chapter pretty does more for the fish guy than decades of comic books and cartoons. No 'OUTRAGEOUS', no fish people....he is shown to have some tricks.
His armor repelled bullets, his trident stopped a full speed car, and people took joke shots at him for being 'just able to talk to fish'.
We saw his hot wife, he gave up his kingness...and a bunch of creepy villains attacked.
And he came to Boston....GO NEW ENGLAND!
I have never really liked Aquaman and now I know why - he has never been written by Geoff Johns before. The story here was so fresh and multilayered that I could not help but to love it. Johns is very much in control here and that means his standard level of writing gets to shine through (which is to say this is very well written.) Where Johns particularly succeeds here is where a lot of other writers have failed, he doesn't try to make Aquaman something he isn't be tackling the "lamest sup...
To probably no one's surprise, Aquaman delivers on its long-awaited relaunch as Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis give us an Arthur Curry who can easily carry his own series among the best. The creepy and well done introduction of a new threat really elevates this issue, and Reis' art is amazing throughout.Johns and Reis have effectively already done the work of selling readers on Aquaman with Blackest Night and Brightest Day, so many are coming into this with the belief that Aquaman can be a main playe...