Mera Queen of Atlantis #4 Review

Writer: Dan Abnett / Artist: Lan Medina, Norm Rampund/ DC Comics Anchored In Another Land The final issues of Mera Queen of Atlantis is starting to feel a lot like a movie I’d probably pay a full ticket price for. The comic’s writing and character development is beautiful and it captures the perfect speed of each scene. I imagined readers delving into Mera’s past and seeing how her thoughts and experiences created the being she is today. When the writers brought in Orm’s past in conjunction to Mera’s in order to fuse their stories together I felt hopelessly connected to their futures. Throughout life, we learn from unexpected people, and circumstances. Throughout Issue #4, we learn the most important lessons about life can be buried in the sand of a different world. The collision of cultures, yet a balance is created by assimilation into the setting they once believed to be poisonous. I’ve become attracted to rooting for their growth, rather than their victories in battles.

Who Are You Now? Throughout this issue, I began questioning, what do they need to go through in order to become what they need to be? I imagine that the writers have inherited a God-Complex over the characters because the twists become crazy. By the end of the comic, my mouth literally fell open and I was so grateful that it did. I can’t wait to see what happens to the crown in the next issue. The Mera and Orm that readers have been following at the beginning of the series has morphed into beings worth…