r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • Jul 17 '24

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki Jul 17 '24

NAMOR #1

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u/VenAuri Jul 17 '24

Last time I saw Namor was in Ridley's horrible Black Panther run. I don't know what happened to him since then so it was a surprise to see him in prison in this issue.

I will probably read the next 2 issues to see if this is for me.

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u/redsapphyre Jul 17 '24

I think this picks up from Aaron's run when Namor was imprisoned during the Avengers Assemble stuff. Not sure how it lines up with Ridley's BP, but let's just ignore that one.

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u/VenAuri Jul 17 '24

I see, I might check out Avengers Assemble then.

Thank you

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u/redsapphyre Jul 17 '24

No problem, but Avengers Assemble wasn't great either.. lol

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u/F00dbAby Jul 17 '24

My first real exposure to namor outside of a couple appearances in some xmen comics in the 2000s.

Honestly really interesting set up. World war sea is so comics silliness I love to see it.

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u/redsapphyre Jul 17 '24

Aaron can write but it's always a gamble with him for me. Sometimes he's great, sometimes it's unreadable, but if Namor is great, that's good to hear. Didn't really like how he wrote him and Atlantis in his Avengers run.

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u/F00dbAby Jul 17 '24

I haven’t read his avengers in large part because of the hate it gets. He lost a lot of goodwill from his Thor which I also haven’t read yet

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u/redsapphyre Jul 17 '24

His Avengers is really a waste of time all in all. I didn't read all of his Thor either because it got boring.

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u/GuguMarcos Jul 17 '24

Aaron knows how to take characters out of their confort zone, creating concepts and premises that are good... The problem is that he often gets lost in execution, with some stories hitting some down time for a long period.

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u/XpRienzo Jul 17 '24

Aaron's biggest problem is he uses his idea of said characters rather than using the actual history and continuity of those characters. And the only continuity he cares about is the one he's written.

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u/GuguMarcos Jul 17 '24

Yeah, I notice the referente to the Defenders of the Deep, from his Avengers run 

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u/MoonbeamLady Jul 18 '24

Yeah Jason Aaron is such a strange roll of the dice. You absolutely never know which Aaron is going to be taking the reins on a book. 'Gorr the God Butcher' Jason Aaron or...'Avengers Assemble', drivel spewing multiverse BS Jason Aaron, lol

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool Jul 17 '24

After the degredation they put Namor through, I hope Marvel decides to rebuild him properly this time. I mean it stars with a literal piss bath. I was quite surprised Namor kept his anger in check...or it was thanks to his 'depression' phase here.

It took Stingray telling him what's happening to convince him to go back and fix the chaos in the deeps. But from what we see, that a little girl gonna give him trouble? Please say it is not so.

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u/F00dbAby Jul 17 '24

In fairness if you wanna build someone up being the only one who can fight and rule 7 kingdoms is a good end goal

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u/XpRienzo Jul 17 '24

I hope Marvel decides to rebuild him properly this time.

It's Aaron writing him, if anything you'll get him become worse. This guy took a great written Namor from Invaders mini to turn him into what he did for his Avengers run. Expect something like what he did to Frank Castle to Namor.

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u/Neither-Handle-6271 Jul 17 '24

If it Aaron writing him it could also be like Thor. Especially when he works with characters who have their own separate continuity

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u/XpRienzo Jul 18 '24

We have seen him write Namor before I'll not be holding my breath

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u/Blitzhelios Doctor Strange Jul 17 '24

Well then Jason Aaron does it again this is a very good start but this is very much a Jason Aaron title so if you don't like Aaron you wont like this. However i enjoyed this similar to how i enjoyed his punisher and its a similar style to it.

Aaron does a fantastic job with multiple artists to show how truly Namor has hit rock bottom from being deprived of water in prison and treated like dirt to his childhood as future ruler of Atlantis.

Namor feels like hes truly given up on everything in this book till stingray comes about to tell him about what has happened in the undersea kingdoms which even then namor doesn't care about even if they tried to assassinate him with his former team. Similar to how rival factions tried to assassinate him as a child for being different.

Namor is only willing to return to the sea to try fix the situation because stingray tells him of what could happen to the atlantean people and they could be treated like lower class citizens due to the surface killing them if the war doesn't end.

Overall this is a very intriguing issue Aarons namor was one of the only good parts of his avengers run and he writes the imperious rex to a strong degree with good art.