

I just recently reread your “Aquaman” run and the action starts on page one. And no disrespect to Geoff’s run, but I always thought that that run was very decompressed and there wasn’t as much action as you’d expect.

I remember being at New York Comic Con right after it launched and he says “I’m gonna make people think Aquaman is cool.” It’d been a long time building, but Aquaman had become the Superfriends punch line for a long time. So you were following Geoff Johns on “Aquaman,” and Geoff had taken on the book as a pet project. Follow him on Twitter ( interview has been edited for length and clarity. Jeff is currently writing “Ninjak” for Valiant Comics, and just completed a Kickstarter for a book called “Blighter” along with artist Drew Moss. Along with artist Paul Pelletier, Parker told action packed stories that highlighted the uniqueness of the character and continuing Geoff Johns’s approach, which was to expand the character’s supporting cast and mythology, giving him a richer, more developed world to play in. The veteran writer/artist look over “Aquaman” with #26, and instantly made the book his own. We’re not taking any clear path through these books, but hopping from title to title, line to line, in an effort to spotlight the breadth of the initiative. Over the next year, we’ll be discussing each of the New 52 titles with a member of its creative team. It was an unprecedented move that bore good, bad, and mediocre comics. DC Comics was not just relaunching all of its titles, it was doing so in a new, clean(er) continuity, in an attempt to revitalize and enthuse the fan base. Political cartoonist.On Tuesday, August 31, 2011, “Justice League” #1 dropped, officially beginning the experiment known as the New 52. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Posted in: Comics, DC Comics | Tagged: aquaman, dc comics, jeff parker About Rich JohnstonFounder of Bleeding Cool. His role was also built on in the recent Justice League: The Zack Snyder Cut. Of late, the profile of the character has been raised after actor Jason Momoa portrayed Aquaman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Aquaman, and Aquaman 2. In the 1990s, writers interpreted the character more seriously, with storylines depicting the weight of his role as king of Atlantis. Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, he later starred in several volumes of a solo comic book series and during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was a founding member of the Justice League. Aquaman was created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, in More Fun Comics #73, in 1941).
