By: Geoff Johns (story), Paul Pelletier (pencils), Sean Parsons (inks), Rod Reis (colors)
The Story: This ocean ain’t big enough for the two of us.
The Review: To say that Aquaman is as much a creature of the land as the sea seems to be stating the obvious until you consider the dearth of Aquaman stories which take place on the surface. Writers naturally put Arthur in the water by default, but doing so probably marginalized Arthur’s value on land over time. By returning Arthur to his lighthouse home, Johns was pushing to show that Aquaman can be as much a hero out of water as in it.
Which is why it’s such a shame to see Johns backtracking from that initial push as his run on the title winds down. After so many issues developing Arthur’s domestic life in Amnesty Bay, this issue renders all that effort moot by committing him to his undersea kingdom indefinitely. Granted, this was always going to be his destiny anyway; choosing to remain in a small coast town would limit his adventures pretty severely. But leaving now feels premature, since Johns has only scratched the surface of Arthur’s surface life.*
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