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once upon a time Aquaman was a poorly
dressed amphibious hero whose friends
consisted mainly of fish
however today he's well he's the sexy
sea version of Khal Drogo but even with
his burly muscles and killer shark
friends he still can't seem to shake the
stigma of being well Aquaman so my
question is what the hell happened to
Aquaman I'm Jocelyn the intern I do all
the research nobody else wants to
straight from the desk of battle like
any good researcher we'll start at the
beginning for Aquaman that would be a
1941 issue of more fun comics as a
scientist that learned how to survive
underwater and literally topped with
some fishies he'll the man rode around
on a seahorse which is like the least
bad a sea creature there is I mean like
the boys seahorses have the babies you
probably knew that not off to a good
start to be fair though more fun comics
were intended for a much younger
audience
so his dopey concept kind of hit the
belt however he wasn't all SAP as he got
to beat up some Nazis which earns anyone
a fair share of cool points but Nazi
fighting aside Aquaman was more or less
a filler character it wasn't until the
late
Zippy's or the Silver Age as it's
commonly referred to that DC really
started to flesh out and make changes to
Aquaman some good some bad and some
strange just strange some of the strange
category Falls the introduction of his
sidekick Tefo an octopus that could play
happy birthday on multiple instruments
that was for a I mean sure for an
octopus he had his moments I mean topo
could even fire for bow and arrows at a
time and was apparently almost as good a
shot as Green Arrow overall though Tomo
didn't really help out Aquaman's cool
factor very much but one of the better
changes to aquaman that came out of the
Silver Age was his new backstory
Aquaman was changed from seafaring
scientists to Arthur curry wayward son
of an outcast Atlanta yet since he was
now from an aquatic race rather than a
scientist who lived at the bottom of the
sea Aquaman's powers went through some
changes
this included Aquaman's switching from
literally talking to fish to
telepathically communicating and
controlling sea creatures I'm pretty
sure we can all agree that was a change
for the better however with all his
powers becoming more super in nature the
writers decided he needed a weakness as
well Aquaman gained a weakness almost as
stupid as Green Lantern's vulnerability
to the color yellow and wood Aquaman
could no longer survive outside of water
essentially super dehydration seeing as
he would now straight-up die if he
didn't take a dip into some good ol h2o
at least once an hour
Aquaman donned the notoriously stupid
fishbowl helmet every time he went on
land and I'm not gonna lie to you
Aquaman's cool factor stay to ride
around here he was neither amazing or
unbearably lame he was
somewhere in the middle that is until
the 1970s got a hold of him and
ferociously shaped him into the
proverbial butt of the joke yep we're
talking about the timeless classic
superfriends which followed the hijinks
of the Justice League with the addition
of two powerless children and a dollar
store version of scooby-doo with a gate
for whatever reasons Superfriends
depicted Aquaman as not only being near
useless out of water but also pretty
garbage in water more often than not his
control of sea creatures was for him
just chat with him just chat him up sure
he still had super-strength
but compared to his companions like
Superman and Wonder Woman he wasn't all
that impressive so Arthur just kind of
became the lame and fairly useless joke
hero of the Justice League
kind of like boomstick around here
Aquaman's popularity spoiled faster than
buffet sashimi so much so that his
standalone comic was even canceled
during this time in true vh1 behind the
heroes special this is when Aquaman hit
rock bottom
sadly this is how a lot of people
remember Aquaman but I assure you since
the 1989 debut of legend of Aquaman he
has become one of the most badass heroes
in DC's lineup just to give you a quick
highlight reel Aquaman has commanded
armies of killer sharks bathe in the
blood of his enemies and smacked the
[ __ ] out of Superman he even lost his
arm a couple times and replaced it with
a sweet-ass harpoon so he can do dope
[ __ ] like rip off one of Cerberus heads
which he then uses to I [ __ ] you not
break through the gates of Hades so yeah
maybe give Aquaman a second chance Oh
fun fact
Aquaman wasn't the only one to get bad
Assaf I'd remember topo the stupid happy
birthday playing octopus yeah well this
is him now