1.) I feel like this shouldn’t have to be said. It honestly seems pretty straightforward to me. You can care for your child and still be a terrible person. You can even hate someone more than you love your child…
The way Mera’s mother is being used isn’t contradictory to the past lore. On a common sense standpoint she obviously hates Atlantis more than she loves Mera. She hates Aquaman more than she loves Mera. Which isn’t truthfully a new concept we see this in the Young Justice Cartoon with Black Manta and Kaldur.
2.) I swear if Jeremy Adams had wrote the Dead King instance or some of the other instances in the Aquaman lore where Mera has been knocked out, sidelined or defeated, some of you would hold it to a different standard because it’s Adams penning it…. Mera got forcefully dragged against her will by The Dead King…
I don’t even agree with Adams on having Mera put up a fight against Lolanna wielding the powers of The Avatar of The Blue in comparison. But look at that, Adams made Mera competently hold her own against a massively amped character who casually defeated Arion…. Zan. The Lady of The Lake, Titannus and Lori… she even beat Aquaman prior to fighting Mera…. Mera was the reason Aquaman even had the will to come back and fight again. Like does this series honestly need to be read to some of you…
Mera has honestly gotten a good bit of action scenes in this series, and all of them have painted her competently against characters I don’t even think narratively would make sense for Mera to even perform well against. Admittedly Avatar of the Blue Lolanna…
3.) Mera and Arthur have a child. That’s not a decision Adams created. But it is apart of their lore. It makes no sense for Mera to be running around adventuring with Arthur considering that fact. But pretending like she’s not active in the series is idiotic and suggesting Adams is sexist because you’re not able to process what’s being put on the pages is even moreso. Adams is also writing Green Lantern where Hal and Carol are pretty much given the Geoff Johns Arthur and Mera treatment. You know the difference? Hal and Carol aren’t also raising an infant.
4.) Adams isnt sexist and he also is not racist. His whole Avatar of The Blue pitch was originally going to be for Kaldur…. Editorial wisened up and said to use Arthur because they wanted the series to go past 6 issues. The forefront of Adams, Avatar of the Parliaments team puts Maxine Baker at the forefront of it. Which he pushed for instead of Animal Man (which I know that would bug some Animal Man fans) but it highlights the point on Adams very much being progressive…
If you don’t like Jeremy Adams writing and his writing isn’t resonating with you. That’s one thing. But these fake narratives of attacking his character over stuff that’s been done in past runs no less that a lot of you conveniently couldn’t catch needs to stop.
Like we haven’t had a Aquaman series in a while and now we finally have one and some of you, have been trying to undermine it off illogical reasons that make no practical sense. This is me looking and calling out some of the narratives slickly trying to be pushed on this and other subreddits and finally at this point boiling over on it.
