Avengers #61: Eh, a set-up issue. Not really very interesting. 2 bored starfish.
I cannot believe how many people, including intelligent people whose opinions I usually respect, didn't understand JLA: The Obsidian Age. It was a confusing storyline, but it was readable, as I think I proved in my overview/review of it. But I keep seeing reviews of Aquaman #1 that complain about it because the reviewer didn't understand something that happened in the JLA lead-up. ARGH!
Well, the good news is that DC has completely sold out of Aquaman #1. They had overprinted enough copies to cover what usually would be the next two months of reorders, but those copies sold out in 3 days. They will decide whether or not to do another printing sometime next week. At the sell-through level, I've seen several reports of stores running out of the first issue, which is heartening.
After writing about "new" pre-Silver Age Aquaman tales I've been able to read thanks to help from on-line friends, I did a quick count and survey to see how far I have left to go. Yeah, this is pathetic, but I love numbers:
Paul Norris (first Aquaman artist) 10 stories. I've read 8. 80% done.
Louis Cazeneuve (second Aquaman artist) 44 stories. I've read all 44. 100% done.
John Daly (third Aquaman artist) 37 stories. I've read 14. 38% done.
Ramona Fradon (fourth Aquaman artist) 111 stories. I've read 84. 76% done.
And I have everything after Ramona's work. I want to do biographies of Aquaman artists on my website, but I have so little information on some of them. I know Cazeneuve was probably from Argentina and had a brother named Arturo, but I know almost nothing beyond that. John Daly? I hardly know anything about him. And then I feel bad leaving out the writers, but most of the writers are lost to history. We don't know who wrote what story. We aren't even entirely sure which writers worked on Aquaman in the Golden Age. Makes it really hard.
Ok, must run. I've got to be to work soon, and I still need to finish waking up. More blogging soonish, I hope.
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