With so few female characters in comics that aren't simply feminine versions of pre-existing male characters, it has been a shame how under-utilized Mera has been, especially with her cool hard water powers. Fortunately, it seems that Geoff Johns agrees with that, because he gave Mera her biggest spotlight in decades in the Blackest Night mini-series. She is continuing to stay in focus with the current bi-weekly Brightest Day series as well. Hopefully a new Aquaman series will follow and she will be able to continue to shine.
Once again, I am glad to be able to provide a cover that is 100% Aparo artwork. His run on Aquaman is the best that character has ever looked, in my opinion.
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NICE! i love the Aquaman characters. speaking of which, two requests (one related and one unrelated)... first off, related: Black Manta; and unrelated: Havok (in the classic costume, if possible).
Well Black Manta does appear on the Aqualad cover I posted a while back...
I think I recall Mera showing up in some of the reader requests for Batman team-ups back in the day. I always got the feeling the editors were never sure what to make of that one...
Another one which showed up a lot was Mon-El from the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Ah! The "Burn in Hell" tombstone cover! First Batman comic I ever bought. I was so confused (at age 5) that Batman was "dead." I told my Grandfather about my concern over this, and he just said "he'll be back." Wise man...
Le Critique d'Artiste here. I hate mention the balance is off here. With all the whitespace beside Batman, the two images don't quite mesh. This is THE Aquaman cover of course, and the story that A2 is based on. I hear it was terrible being a victim of all the behind the scenes problems with Amber Heard and that the women that flock to Jason Mamoa did not appreciate the story of poor Arthur Curry Jr. Its too bad, because this is one of the seminal stories of the Silver Age and the only one that really stands out until his Bronze/Copper Age reboot in Art Noveau.
Sorry, when I say it was THE Aquaman cover, the original has A-Man filling up where the whitespace is here giving the image balance.
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