An alien spacecraft crashes into the ocean and suddenly the race is on to recover it and unearth its secrets - but what awaits inside…?
On paper, Aquaman: Andromeda seems like an ok-ish comic: Aquaman with a sci-fi/horror twist. Haven’t seen that before, eh? Might be good, eh? On paper. And then you see the writer: Ram V. First red flag. Then there’s the unwritten rule of comics (ok just my personal theory given my experience with the artist): every book drawn by Christian Ward suuuuucks. Second red flag. And then you remember, oh yeah, it’s an AQUAMAN comic. Third red flag.
Andromeda wasn’t good. The story is a dull mess of paper-thin government-type characters scrabbling towards some generic MacGuffin that has silly powers for no reason. Aquaman is a stoic dreary Batman-wannabe while Black Bug Helmet is a pointless addition with nothing to do. It wasn’t scary, it wasn’t interesting, it wasn’t entertaining, it was… your average Aquaman book.
Christian Ward’s art was pretty good in this one. I don’t always go for his goopy-style but some of the splash pages were impressive - the Kraken one in particular. Aquaman weirdly looks arbitrarily like Jason Momoa at times, not just through using shadows to darken his skin but facially he seems to morph into Momoa’s at these times too, and then he morphs back into the regular white/blonde character he is in the comics. Hmm.
So, yup, Aquaman, Ram V, and DC Black Label are all still bad. Aquaman: Andromeda is an easy book to skip (you’re really not missing anything), much like the Aquaman 2 movie scheduled to bomb at the box office next week!
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