As with yesterday's cover, this is another pairing that I have been meaning to get to for a while. I can just see Namor taking advantage of the fact that Aquaman isn't around to make the moves on Mera. It seems like they go to the same tailor - perhaps there's some history there that we don't know about...
Oh no... Arthur's not gonna like this. First Sue Storm, then Emma Frost, now Mera! Namor, there's something called single women!
ReplyDeleteblue diamond and metamorpho or metal men and emma frost or vizon or machine man or magnus robot fighter
ReplyDeletei guess mamor likes to cut in on other guy's wives....not cool...lol
ReplyDeleteoops namor....sorry...lol
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. Before setting this cover, I'd never noticed that Aquasman was King Arthur. Has the Atlantis-Camelot link ever been taken up on this blog, or for that matter in actual comics?
ReplyDeleteSorry, that should have been "... seeing this cover"
DeleteMy money is on Mera actually being Llyra, in disguise, trying to start a war between the two Atlantises.*
ReplyDelete*Come to think of it, there are technically three. Tritonis and Poseidonis from the DCU; and Namor's home-sweet-home (which, I gather, is the namesake capital of the original continent).
Peter David scripted Aquaman and used King Arthur and his cast to retell a version of the Camelot stories of the human Arthur.
ReplyDeleteIs this when we learn that Namor's middle name is 'Lancelot'?
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@Above Anonymous: actually, it's "Jokeslikethatplease." ;-D
ReplyDeleteOOOOOOOOOOOOh! I get it.
ReplyDelete"Namor Jokeslikethatplease" (lol)
Huh. I don't know why I honestly never thought of this pairing before, but I definitely like it. I could see it.
ReplyDeleteOops!
ReplyDeleteSomehow forgot to put my name on my previous comment: I was "Above Anonymous".
Then, I congratulate you on your clever play on marine biological terms. Although, the proper spelling is "lancelet." As in, "a species of small jawless fish representing the most primitive marine chordates on Earth."
ReplyDeleteInteresting. That's a different interpretation of the pun from mine. I thought the other anonymous (aka simreeve) meant lance-a-lot with reference to Namor pointing his trident at Mera.
ReplyDeleteI thought he meant "Lancelot" as in the knight who slept with King Arthur's wife...
ReplyDeleteA good pun can be read in several ways...
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But, only if the one making it is feeling "pun-ish." Which would technically make them a masochist!
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