The fifth volume does not kick off particularly well, either. Aquaman: Time & Tide, while an adept attempt at wiping the origin slate a bit and tidying up some dangling threads, is actually cringeworthy in many ways some twenty five years on. For one, despite the relative short gap between the miniseries and the new volume, the tones in these two different projects are nearly night and day. This first book, which collects the four part Aquaman: Time & Tide miniseries and the first nine issues of the fifth volume is… a difficult read, on many levels. Aquaman is a very niche character that does not always do well sustaining a strong title for the long haul (despite repeated attempts), and if it was not for finding a used copy, I may have otherwise skipped over this entirely in my current spree of acquisitions. Internet fandom seems to nearly all side on giving Peter David’s run high praise, but to be honest, this is a character and run that does not particularly grab my attention. Peter David is a big name in comic books, especially with regards to certain characters Hulk and X-Factor over at Marvel Comics, and most notably Aquaman and Supergirl for DC Comics.
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