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Aquaman movie will be out at the end of the year and DC has announced that Kelly
Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha will be taking over the book later this year.
Their run on the series will be set up in the upcoming Justice League event,
Drowned Earth. In the arc Arthur Curry will find himself and his teammates in
the middle of a story that has cosmic consequences for his membership in the
Justice League, the history of Atlantis and the future of the Earth. The event
will be set up by James Tynion IV and Howard Porter in Justice League/Aquaman:
Drowned Earth #1 and end in #2. Tynion says that the event will “build off the
version of Arthur in Rebirth and the Geoff Johns run before that. There’s this
richness and the depth because he’s tapped into the fantastic mythology of
Atlantis, this he larger than life myth that’s a greater metaphor of this great
society. But there’s also this cynicism there, in the fact that in the real
world version of the story, the idea is that Atlantis was this great utopia and
then it sank to the seas and died. But in the DC Universe, when it sank into the
sea, it turned inward. It totally sealed itself off and got this really strong
isolationism. So one of the big things that we wanted to ask ourselves is, how
do you kind of rectify that dream of the original society in the midst of this
current Atlantis, an Atlantis focused on isolation and secrecy. Then there’s
Aquaman, who bridges these two worlds, like the legends of was Atlantis was
supposed to be. The optimism and the dream of it would be the thing that’s still
really appealed to him.” The event will also examine the nature of the ocean
since Earth seems to be one of the only planets with multiple versions of
oceanic life. So was there something that happened with Atlantis that caused
that? Learning the answers to that may be a problem for the entire planet. In
Justice League #8 we will see Legion of Doom members Cheetah and Black Manta
kill Poseidon and travel to the Graveyard of Gods. Poseidon’s death will cause a
major disruption in magic that brings back once forgotten sea gods who flood the
Earth and turn people into aquatic, monstrous versions of themselves. |
