tastewithyourfingers asked: Gawrsh, I love cussin'. You know something? Not only do we all scream for ice cream, but we all cuss for asparagus. Anyway! I had occasion to catch up on both Hawkman and Aquaman today. Whom of the two would y'rather be?
I will cuss a blue streak for some properly roasted asparagus.
My gut tells me I’d rather be Aquaman, because I’d have a backstory that made sense and could go exploring coral reefs err’ day. However, I decided to read the first couple of issues of DC’s new “Aquaman” “Savage Hawkwan” titles to make a definitive answer.
If I were going to be one of those dudes in the DCnU, I’d probably go with Hawkman. Sure, he talks like he’s Jubilee in the 90s “X-Men” cartoon (“I never ASKED for this! Why is this HAPPENING to me?”), but he’s got shapeshifting alien flame-metal living in his skin and making him more intelligent. Also, Philip Tan’s art is delicious, and Tony Daniel has finally managed to write a script that doesn’t fill me with contempt (probably because it has nothing to do with Batman).
Geoff Johns’ Aquaman, meanwhile, takes lots of verbal abuse from everybody on the surface world despite acting like a total badass all the time—and then he decides he’s going to stop being a king and go live with land-bound assholes because he “never asked for the responsibility” of being King of Atlantis. Even when he’s the coolest, Aquaman’s the lamest.
