He's made it a part of Arthur's story and something that drives his character, it's smart and fun and very self aware which is refreshing and also an awesome way to start a series (destroying these pre-conceived notions of the character). Aquaman as I've said above has always been the but of jokes from the comic book fanbase and instead of treading around that Johns has decided to meet it head on. We do get a glimpse of a wider world with the Trench story and the last two issues start dealing with Atlantis, but the world building in the first couple of issues is laser focused on character building and that's fine with me.Story: The first 10 pages will make you smile and the end of the first arc will make you smile even wider. more ormal everyday setting because the true focus on this first arc is Arthur and Mera (as it should be). The world that Reis and Johns creates is one that is familiar (small port town in small town America), it's a n. However, with Johns taking on Aquaman for the New52 I was really excited, he had revived GL and the Flash and I hoped he would do the same for Arthur, and he did:World: The world of Aquaman has always been about the ocean and more precisely Atlantis, but in this first arc (luckily) we don't see that part.

Everyone's heard of all the jokes about Aquaman and to be fair a lot of it was true as he was a poorly written, campy and disregarded character in the books.

Review 1: Aquaman is cool again!!!Fantastic! When DC rebooted their universe I had a couple of heroes on my list that needed a reboot really badly and Aquaman was one of them.

Aquaman, Volume 4 by Geoff Johns