{"id":21228,"date":"2021-02-11T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=21228"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:30:03","slug":"future-state-aquaman-1-2021-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/11\/future-state-aquaman-1-2021-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Future State: Aquaman #1 (2021) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s not that Future State: Aquaman #1 is a bad comic book, the problem is that it doesn\u2019t really do anything of value. For a book that gives us our first glimpses of Arthur and Mera\u2019s child, Andrina \u201cAndy\u201d Curry, grown into adolescence and having her own adventures, the story does nothing to make the character interesting \u2013 or memorable \u2013 or even present for most of the story. Instead, we\u2019re stuck with Jackson Hyde \u2013 though there\u2019s no telling if the Infinite Frontier is allowed to bring back the version readers enjoyed from Brightest Day or if we\u2019re still stuck with the retconned version readers rejected from DC Rebirth.<\/p>\n

In the end, it doesn\u2019t matter since this issue doesn\u2019t really give him much to do anyway. If a boring story were all we had, that would be fine as a mediocre entry to the Aquaman mythos, but our story takes place in the ocean\u2026 in outer space. Apparently these two stumbled upon \u201cThe Confluence,\u201d a place where all of time and space\u2026 in the oceans\u2026 interconnect and travelers can move from one place and time to another\u2026 in the oceans\u2026 from planet to planet and era to era through a floating mass of water in space that connects them all. (The idea of a giant oceanic portal connecting all of space and time makes no sense considering that no one has found it before, and nothing has come through it before, but whatever.) The two were separated, and thinking that Aqualass had perished, Aqualad had given up when captured by some alien things (I guess because they aren\u2019t really explained very well) at some point in the past.<\/p>\n

Aqualad is not interesting. Nothing about his character is remotely entertaining or interesting. Aqualass is not interesting. Nothing about her character us remotely entertaining or interesting. The story is given no context. We have no reason to care about these characters or their actions. The only thing I can figure is that writer Brandon Thomas literally took the idea of plucking issues from a future storyline out of sequence and dropped them into this special event, but in doing so, robbed it of all meaning and value. Aquaman is mainstay of the DC Universe but as we\u2019ve seen with the recently finished Kelly Sue DeConnick run on the eponymous series, the wrong writer can drain all enthusiasm from a series and leave nothing left for fans to appreciate.<\/p>\n

But at least the art from Daniel Sampere and Adriano Lucas looks good. Too bad it\u2019s just not enough to make me come back for the second issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not that Future State: Aquaman #1 is a bad comic book, the problem is that it doesn\u2019t really do anything of value.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[54,885,1574],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Future-State-Aquaman-Cover-1-1-e1613089247879.jpg?fit=665%2C442","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21249,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/17\/future-state-batman-superman-1-2021-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":21228,"position":0},"title":"Future State: Batman\/Superman #1 (2021) Review","author":"DiRT","date":"February 17, 2021","format":"image","excerpt":"Unlike other Future State comics that have been set in the far future where things are radically different, Batman\/Superman is set at the beginning of the massive upheaval that changes the DC Universe. 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