So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Aquaman by Peter David
Of all heroes and villains in the vast pantheon of DC Comics, perhaps none has historically been as polarising as Aquaman. With Golden Age origins dating back more than 85 years to the backup features of More Fun Comics , DC's King of Atlantis is among the publisher's oldest and most recognisable characters. For much of that history, however, public perception has rarely been kind. Aquaman has spent decades as the punchline of superhero culture—the Justice Leaguer who talks to fish, and apparently not much else (Baker, 2024). However, and with much intended disrespect to a certain Dark Knight, for a brief period in the 1990s, Aquaman may well have been the coolest, most badass character in all of DC Comics. The year is 1994. Aquaman has spent the decade following Crisis on Infinite Earths in a strange sort of limbo: still around, but nowhere near as prominent as he had been throughout the Bronze Age and preceding Silver Age. In 1989, Keith Giffen penned both a five-issue Aqua...
