miércoles, 30 de octubre de 2013

Some thoughts about Aquaman Annual #1

Aquaman and The Others are united again to face a new supernatural threat.

Morgane Le Fey has stolen Vostok's helmet so she can acquire its power and to prevent that from happening The Others will have to face their own worst fears and weaknesses and some of them may actually succumb to their influence.

Okay, some aspects from the original premise have been altered. At first this story's focus was going to be about a new owner of Vostok's helmet but now it has been changed to be about The Others battling against Morgane Le Fey, still, John Ostrander does a great job at portraying all these characters and their motivations. I'm serious, when The Others first appeared on Geoff Johns' Aquaman run they were a pretty cool concept but lacked some subtance and personality.

Now, Ostrander manages to inject their own voice and strenghts not only personality-wise but also in terms of their abilities, The Operative is a much more Batman-style paranoid soldier, The Prisoner is actually funny at times now and Ya'wara, well, you will know.

Geraldo Borges handles the art and it's simply amazing. He follows the same tone that Ivan Reis and Paul Pelletier have been developing on the main series and he does it wonderfully, full of detail a greatly looking. This man deserves more work.

This was obviously a set-up for the upcoming The Others ongoing series and so far it's a pretty promising premise. Well written, interesting direction and future, let's just hope they keep Borges on pencils.

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