Brightest Day #3

[sailorlibra]

Four pages from Brightest Day #3, featuring Mera and her husband.













recommended tags - char: mera, char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry, title: brightest day, event: brightest day, publisher: dc comics, creator: geoff johns, creator: peter tomasi

Comments

[aaron_bourque]

Two things (the first snarky and if anyone finds offensive I'll go ahead and delete the comment)

1) Why this isn't racist at all! You sure this is DC?

2) Aw, man, why do the creators love to fuck with the married couples? Stop it, just stop it!

[nezchan]

2) Because they hate happiness. And Christmas.

[neuhallidae]

But how are we supposed to find them interesting without bucketloads of angst? Even the sweet moments must have that bitter tinge, goddammit!

[thokstar]

To be fair, the time to complain about them messing with this married couple was back when they killed off Aquababy.

[revaladdinsane.livejournal.com]

The racism is elsewhere in the issue when they arbitrarily kill off another non-white character. (in this case, Jason Rusch's mother)

[big_daddy_d]

Because a certain EiC and the Brain Trust has formed a group called The Marriage/Happiness Haters Club and it's not just exclusive to Marvel creators.

[jlroberson]

Well, in the panel where the orca (sorry, I live in Seattle, it's the law to call 'em that here) attacks him, it almost looked like his arm had been torn off, so I felt I was on familiar ground... ;)

[darkknightjrk]

"2) Aw, man, why do the creators love to fuck with the married couples? Stop it, just stop it!"

How are they fucking with Aquaman and Mera here? From what I've read of the character, this is probably the most blissful period they've had as a couple since they were introduced.

[wonderwomanhero]

Mera, I miss you being insane. FTW.

[sailorlibra]

I don't miss her being insane--though she did make an awesome Red Lantern--I miss her kicking ass. Now that Arthur's back, she seems stuck as being written only as his wife, not as an awesome person in her own right.

[wonderwomanhero]

Worst comic arc since Brand New Day?

[jlroberson]

The whole point of this will be "fixing" all these problems, and then back to status quo.

Well, you could save a step and just skip this series. But then DC wouldn't make as much.

[lencannon]

I hope that rueful look on her face in the last panel is her thinking "What if...?" about Atrocitus.

[halloweenjack]

Or RageCat.

[nothingbutcake]

Haha, I don't know if it's intentional but I like how his face has piscine features.

[kirke_novak]

You know what would be even more awesome? If he swam around in circles, forgetting he'd been there 10 seconds earlier.

[abbadie]

"I'm summoning dead sea life"

What?

(Damn, this is a miserable enough day, I choose to ignore the angst and nitpick)

[jlroberson]

And the question was: "Say, Aquaman, how do we make you even more useless?"

[pizoxuat]

I like Mera's body language and facial expression in that first scan. It looks like she's thinking "Oh boy, here we go again. I have a thousand other things I could be doing right now."

[halloweenjack]

Every time he does that with the dead sea critters, all I can think about is the smell.

[neuhallidae]

Oh, God, now I'm thinking about it, and horf.

[darkblade]

On the bright side Arthur, you're invincible on the Gulf Coast.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

lol

*thinks about it for a moment*

*cries and sulks*

[silverzeo]

.... where is Garth? .... and his wife and kid? And wasn't there another Aquaman running around... at least 2, one from Final Crisis who was from another world and another who filled in after Infinite Crisis?

[iondan]

Spoiler-ish





Garth despite all the time spent setting him up to be leader of the Titans and Atlantis didn't make it through Blackest Night. His wife Dolphin(?) and their child were not among the resurected during Brightest Day. And the Final Crisis Aqauman was quickly retconned into being from another Earth.

[darkknightjrk]

One scene I really liked in this issue was J'onn's. We find out the dog from last issue survived, and it looks like he's wiping the trauma out of the poor dog's head and putting him with a nice family. :)

[valtyr]

d'aww. :D

[selke]

Okay, seeing Aquaman bitten nearly in half by a zombie killer whale is one of the best things I've ever seen.

If Rocket Raccoon were sitting over there eating popcorn and giving commentary with Deadpool and Howard the Duck, I could die happily.

[brilliantnova]

http://i49.tinypic.com/123a62v.jpg

>_< I could not help myself

[tacobob]

So has Atrocitus popped up yet? Shouldn't he be sending her flowers? Cards? Those clown things you squeeze when you're mad? "Dish The Fish and go with the MAN!" He could stand under her window and shout romantic things to her (With the aid of Dex-Starr, master of kitty rage and a self-proclaimed master of romance!)

Atrocitus: "Um..er.."
Dex-Starr: "MEOW MEOW!"
Atrocitus: "YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CHAIR!"
Dex-Starr: "MEOW!"
Atrocitus: "ER. HAIR!"

[unicornicopia]

I must have been scrolling extra slow and dramatic like because I jumped a little at the second page, NGL.

[lieut_kettch]

NINJA WHALE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And why haven't Lorena and Arthur Joseph been told that Arthur's alive?

[jaybee3]

I agree. One could also ask why Arthur's not too upset that Garth,Dolphin or Cerdian are dead.