This is Entry 255: King of the Seven Seas!

*sigh*  Oh… Aquaman: why is it “cool” to hate you?

Your like the Nickelback of Super Heroes: The go to joke for a lot of people. Which make those people come off sounding a bit stupid. Like they couldn’t come up with a better punchline so they went with you & no one will say anything about how stupid the joke is. They’ll just laugh along, continuing the stereotype that you “suck” or are “lame”.

I think that many of your haters know almost nothing about you, Aquaman, other then you “talk to fish”. I doubt any them have ever read a Aquaman comic book (for many of them I suspect that they have never read a comic book ever but that’s a rant for a different posting). Your a character that has been around for over 50 years (Aquaman was created in 1941) but what has really been done with you over that time? Not a whole lot. Maybe that’s the reason why people don’t really like you?

But then your “lameness” is not your fault, it’s partly how your written & how the public perceives you. There could be the most awesome Aquaman story ever written by the best writers & best artists but people will not read just by the fact that it is about you: Aquaman, that loser who talks to fish. I’ve even heard that people don’t like the Justice League because Aquaman is a member of that group. Sounds a bit racist… superheroist, if that is even a word.

I don’t really know people hate on the King of the Seven Seas so much? Mostly because I never hear anyone ever give any good reasons why they dislike him so? “Because he talks to fish” is not a good reason.

*sigh*

Until next time: Stay Jazzy!

- Brian