7:16 I think the Aquaman storyline in Brightest Day was meant to be his Rebirth, but they just folded it into Blackest Night. I really loved this run. It helped get me back into comics.
I just reread this series and its absolutely the thing that sticks out from the New 52 the most to me. 2013 was when I started reading comics and I read a few DC runs, but Aquaman was by far my favorite. I love how they reimagined Black Manta and Ocean Master. Black Manta's rivalry with Aquaman was much more personal than prior iterations and whilst both characters were in the wrong, it very much felt like it was Aquaman's mistake that sent them both down their paths. Ocean Master was great too. Most people just see him as a Loki-type character, where he's the jealous younger brother who wants the throne for himself. I love that in this run he already has the throne because Aquaman gave it to him, and Ocean Master doesn't hate him at first, in fact they establish the two shared a bond for a time but it was driven by their shared hatred for the surface world, which Aquaman grew out of but Ocean master never could. It made that Vulko twist even better because Ocean Master saw himself as the hero, and its no wonder that afterwards there were still those that wanted him to be king since he was genuinely defending his people, even if part of him always wanted to attack the surface. I just love the approach they took by having Aquaman be a character with a lot of history, and having a big part of his life be this dark phase after his father died and he was exposed to the world, during which spawned the beginnings of his two greatest villains.
Thanks for the review, MD. I thoroughly enjoyed this omni. Heartfelt, funny, violent and epic. So pleased I got this. Ivan Reis and Paul Pelletier's artwork is sublime. And Rod Reis colours too. Just wonderful.
Great Review dude. I think What GJ did for Aquaman was great but Abnett's Run was more enjoyable overall. I think not having to do much setup, gave him much more freedom to go at his own pace. Both are great runs though and one continues from the other.
Abnett ruined Aquaman with the never ending arc, corum rath. Besides his run was full of contradictions, the low sales of Abnett speak volumes of how fans rejected it. Abnett started out well but soon wasted the boost Rebirth brought. Besides he never delivered the promise with which Rebirth Aquaman started with, when fans realized that the wedding with Abnett would never take place it was a freefall in sales. He left a book in a dead end. The only Aquaman writer in the last decades to come second to Johns was Parker.
This was on my list to pick up but man after your review I might have to order this next month it reminds me of the deathstroke 52 omnibus not deep or complex just damn good fun with killer art. Never read any aquaman but I’ll give this a go 🤘🏻stay safe dogg
The New 52 run by Geoff Johns was my gateway with Aquaman. You should do a review on Peter David's run on the character. Little warning I wasn't a fan of Peter David's Aquaman.
I love the work D.C. Comics has done on Aqua-Man and in an industry with the same characters in the same locations over and over, Aquaman is a breath of fresh air!!!! They have created so many great characters and non character IPS they have created around him, and to me he is far from a joke - he is becoming one of the coolest comic book characters!!! If they could find more and better ways to create stories/ways to get the different ecosystems (land/water/air) to work together it would be cool as hell!!!
I haven't read any Green Lantern but i read this and 10 years of this would be amazing and its a shame that he didn't get the chance to go at this project for a decade.
The fact that Johns made me care about AQUAMAN is pretty self explanatory 🤪 Great video as usual Dogg!))) I enjoyed this book SOOO much during this summer! I agree that (the great)Pelletier after Reiss seemed like a downgrade...
It did manage to do the unthinkable, seems this was on a few to read lists this year haha! Glad you enjoyed it though, and thanks for watching the video mate! WOOF WOOF! 🐶
Brother hella review I'm going to have to get this now. But one book that made aquaman a beast was Justice with Alex ross. He got his head cut open by brainiac and grew it back and escaped. Beast mode
Can i read this without knowing anything about Aquaman and very little about the superhero universe? (I dont even know off the top of my head if this is DC or marvel 🤣) do you reccomend it to somebody like me? Can i enjoy this going in blind? Thanks
I read a small first chunk of the run in singles back when the New 52 was still "New", and finally got the omni so I can go back and revisit/finish it. But man, that first intro bit in issue 1 is super memorable and excellently done. Set the tone straight away! This guy's no joke! Great review Dogg!
It is funny how the New 52 is now old 🤔 I loved the first arc a lot, makes me want to look at other characters whose reputation changed so quickly haha. Glad you liked it though and thanks for watching the video mate! WOOF WOOF! 🐶
Geoff Johns stay on Aquaman was cut short indeed, ironically for doing too well. Some people at DC did not like that Aquaman was outselling better known characters. Keep in mind that when Johns took over Aquaman, the character was considered finished by DC. Many people at DC as Johns and Reis related, told them that it was a waste of time and energy to do Aquaman, but Johns insisted. When he proved Didio and others wrong the later at the first occasion removed him. Since then Aquaman has never again reached the heights as with Johns. Aquaman with Johns reached heights that in history he never achieved.
If that's true, then that's a shame. I'm new to Aquaman and Geoff Johns run on him is my first experience reading any comics in relation to the character. I love it so far. Especially the art for it. It's crazy to me that Johns would be fired for doing justice to a character that previous writers didn't have the skill to do.
@@fireshadow6632 he wasn't fired, but removed from the book as his Aquaman was overshadowing other more famous characters in sales. Johns had much more to do and write with Aquaman, is evident that he solicits, at the end of his run, the Rise of the 7 kingdoms. Which he never came to write in comics but included it into movie, which he co-wrote. Exploring the 7 kingdoms would have brought endless story paths - new enemies, new allies, Johns had in mind something like the colored spectrum of the Lanterns corps he did in his celebrated Green Lantern run.
I wish it was that simple. If he's half human half atlantean how does he have powers and abilities that real atlanteans have? I always thought the best way to clear this up was to have posidien be his father. That would account for his abilities and powers and would be a great plot point. But alas no one chose to go There. Would've loved to read that story arc
I remember reading this whole book in one day and only two sittings. Might be my favorite run ever, everything about it is so perfect
My first DC omnibus... fantastic... the art (underwater esp) deserves an Absolute.
7:16 I think the Aquaman storyline in Brightest Day was meant to be his Rebirth, but they just folded it into Blackest Night. I really loved this run. It helped get me back into comics.
I just reread this series and its absolutely the thing that sticks out from the New 52 the most to me. 2013 was when I started reading comics and I read a few DC runs, but Aquaman was by far my favorite.
I love how they reimagined Black Manta and Ocean Master. Black Manta's rivalry with Aquaman was much more personal than prior iterations and whilst both characters were in the wrong, it very much felt like it was Aquaman's mistake that sent them both down their paths.
Ocean Master was great too. Most people just see him as a Loki-type character, where he's the jealous younger brother who wants the throne for himself. I love that in this run he already has the throne because Aquaman gave it to him, and Ocean Master doesn't hate him at first, in fact they establish the two shared a bond for a time but it was driven by their shared hatred for the surface world, which Aquaman grew out of but Ocean master never could. It made that Vulko twist even better because Ocean Master saw himself as the hero, and its no wonder that afterwards there were still those that wanted him to be king since he was genuinely defending his people, even if part of him always wanted to attack the surface.
I just love the approach they took by having Aquaman be a character with a lot of history, and having a big part of his life be this dark phase after his father died and he was exposed to the world, during which spawned the beginnings of his two greatest villains.
This (New 52 Aquaman), New 52 Batman, and New 52 Green Arrow are the best comics I have read in years and the absolute best of the New 52!
Great review, loved this, one of the best of the new 52
Just got this omnibus and can't wait to read it. Nice review! Gets me more excited to dive into it
Thanks for the review, MD. I thoroughly enjoyed this omni. Heartfelt, funny, violent and epic. So pleased I got this. Ivan Reis and Paul Pelletier's artwork is sublime. And Rod Reis colours too. Just wonderful.
I read this recently, and I think your review is spot on. I was disappointed to find out there was no vol. 2.
Great Review dude. I think What GJ did for Aquaman was great but Abnett's Run was more enjoyable overall.
I think not having to do much setup, gave him much more freedom to go at his own pace. Both are great runs though and one continues from the other.
Abnett ruined Aquaman with the never ending arc, corum rath. Besides his run was full of contradictions, the low sales of Abnett speak volumes of how fans rejected it. Abnett started out well but soon wasted the boost Rebirth brought. Besides he never delivered the promise with which Rebirth Aquaman started with, when fans realized that the wedding with Abnett would never take place it was a freefall in sales. He left a book in a dead end.
The only Aquaman writer in the last decades to come second to Johns was Parker.
I always recommend this omnibus to people, such a great read!
It was really enjoyable and hopefully people who you recommend it to like it as well! Thanks for watching the video mate! WOOF WOOF! 🐶
This was on my list to pick up but man after your review I might have to order this next month it reminds me of the deathstroke 52 omnibus not deep or complex just damn good fun with killer art.
Never read any aquaman but I’ll give this a go
🤘🏻stay safe dogg
The New 52 run by Geoff Johns was my gateway with Aquaman. You should do a review on Peter David's run on the character. Little warning I wasn't a fan of Peter David's Aquaman.
I love the work D.C. Comics has done on Aqua-Man and in an industry with the same characters in the same locations over and over, Aquaman is a breath of fresh air!!!! They have created so many great characters and non character IPS they have created around him, and to me he is far from a joke - he is becoming one of the coolest comic book characters!!! If they could find more and better ways to create stories/ways to get the different ecosystems (land/water/air) to work together it would be cool as hell!!!
Awesome video mate
I haven't read any Green Lantern but i read this and 10 years of this would be amazing and its a shame that he didn't get the chance to go at this project for a decade.
The fact that Johns made me care about AQUAMAN is pretty self explanatory 🤪
Great video as usual Dogg!)))
I enjoyed this book SOOO much during this summer!
I agree that (the great)Pelletier after Reiss seemed like a downgrade...
It did manage to do the unthinkable, seems this was on a few to read lists this year haha! Glad you enjoyed it though, and thanks for watching the video mate! WOOF WOOF! 🐶
Brother hella review I'm going to have to get this now. But one book that made aquaman a beast was Justice with Alex ross. He got his head cut open by brainiac and grew it back and escaped. Beast mode
Ivan Reis is a true successor to Alex Raymond. I love he & fellow Brazilian Master, Mike Deodato, JR. `s art. Geoff Johns is a master writer also.
Can i read this without knowing anything about Aquaman and very little about the superhero universe? (I dont even know off the top of my head if this is DC or marvel 🤣) do you reccomend it to somebody like me? Can i enjoy this going in blind? Thanks
As someone who knew NOTHING about aquaman, go for it! 👍
I read a small first chunk of the run in singles back when the New 52 was still "New", and finally got the omni so I can go back and revisit/finish it. But man, that first intro bit in issue 1 is super memorable and excellently done. Set the tone straight away! This guy's no joke! Great review Dogg!
It is funny how the New 52 is now old 🤔 I loved the first arc a lot, makes me want to look at other characters whose reputation changed so quickly haha. Glad you liked it though and thanks for watching the video mate! WOOF WOOF! 🐶
Geoff Johns stay on Aquaman was cut short indeed, ironically for doing too well. Some people at DC did not like that Aquaman was outselling better known characters. Keep in mind that when Johns took over Aquaman, the character was considered finished by DC. Many people at DC as Johns and Reis related, told them that it was a waste of time and energy to do Aquaman, but Johns insisted. When he proved Didio and others wrong the later at the first occasion removed him. Since then Aquaman has never again reached the heights as with Johns. Aquaman with Johns reached heights that in history he never achieved.
If that's true, then that's a shame. I'm new to Aquaman and Geoff Johns run on him is my first experience reading any comics in relation to the character. I love it so far. Especially the art for it. It's crazy to me that Johns would be fired for doing justice to a character that previous writers didn't have the skill to do.
@@fireshadow6632 he wasn't fired, but removed from the book as his Aquaman was overshadowing other more famous characters in sales. Johns had much more to do and write with Aquaman, is evident that he solicits, at the end of his run, the Rise of the 7 kingdoms. Which he never came to write in comics but included it into movie, which he co-wrote. Exploring the 7 kingdoms would have brought endless story paths - new enemies, new allies, Johns had in mind something like the colored spectrum of the Lanterns corps he did in his celebrated Green Lantern run.
☼ yeah, but why does he have ANY powers? or powers different to the rest of ALL ATLANTIS! i dont understand. is he posiedens daughter or something?
I wish it was that simple. If he's half human half atlantean how does he have powers and abilities that real atlanteans have? I always thought the best way to clear this up was to have posidien be his father. That would account for his abilities and powers and would be a great plot point. But alas no one chose to go There. Would've loved to read that story arc
Best new 52 comics. only good thing to come out of the new 512 IMHO
dumbest thing they did is NOT marry them. The art for the 1st couple of issues was 😍😍