Ask Chris #137: Aquaman Is Basically Terrible - ComicsAlliance
That’s why the most successful and interesting version of Aquaman is, for my money, the one who showed up on Brave and the Bold.
That dude had personality to spare, but more than that, he had a personality that made sense. He had the confidence of a king, but his driving force was the love of adventure. It was clear without ever being said that he wasn’t on the surface because of a begrudging obligation to the Justice League, but because he wanted challenge, fights, adventure worthy of his station, and there just wasn’t much going on back in Atlantis. Admittedly, he was essentially just Marvel’s Hercules, but it worked. It embraced that inherent silliness and made it work by making him a boisterous, larger-than-life character to fit his boisterous, larger-than-life world.
The above is truth, but I quibble with some of Chris’s other points.
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