Stjepan Sjeic

*drools*

AQUAMAN #25
Written by DAN ABNETT • Art and cover by STJEPAN SEJIC • Variant cover by JOSHUA MIDDLETON
“UNDERWORLD” part one! In this extra-sized anniversary issue, former terrorists have replaced the Atlantean police. Crime lords control huge swaths of the kingdom. And a deadly undersea arsenal is trained on the surface-dwellers. All is as King Rath commands—and yet whispers persist of a rebel in the slums of Atlantis: A hero with the potential to change the world. A whole new era of AQUAMAN begins as master storyteller Stjepan Sejic (Sunstone, Death Vigil) joins series writer Dan Abnett for Arthur’s boldest and most harrowing adventure yet!
On sale JUNE 21 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

Sweet! the beard is back!

@life_without_progress: I hope it stays this time.

This guy's art style is absolutely gorgeous. I'm surprised DC were able to get Sjeic on board. I'm familiar with some of his DC fan art sketches but he's also worked on Aphrodite IX and The Darkness correct?

@lvenger: Yeah, and he's a ridiculously fast artist as well which is unusual for art so detailed. Yep, he's done most of his work at Top Cow and Image and I'm surprised it took this long for either DC or Marvel to nab him. Maybe they weren't sure his art would play for the mainstream?

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@jonny_anonymous: Again I'm surprised to hear that, that art style of his looks very detailed yet you say he can work it fast as well. I really don't know how his art wouldn't appeal to the mainstream, his faces are spot on, his action sequences are amazingly rendered and the colours are really rich. Also I know one way to give your thread more traffic.

@ecstaticgrace One of the pictures from the new artist for Aquaman has lightning on the trident. An indication that Aquaman's elemental abilities might be coming back.

@ecstaticgrace: I actually like Cullen Bunn's run, the only reason I think it suffers is because there was no build to it and people baulked at the whiplash change (which Bunn agrees with) and that was kinda magnified by DCYou shift as a whole.

@ecstaticgrace: Agreed on all. Although I thought it would have been pretty cool if they had leaned more into Roman mythology rather than Greek, I always liked that distinction between the Atlanteans and the Amazons. They could have even made it clear that Neptune and the Poseidon seen in Wonder Woman were the same gods just different aspects due to how they are worshipped.

I just hope they'll remove the green fins gloves. :|

@ecstaticgrace: :'D

@ecstaticgrace: It's hard to tell from here, maybe Neptune or Orin, Arthur's name-sake

wowzers

Its not bad but i prefer the guy who started drawing Aquaman in the New 52.

Those look great.

This looks good.

Aquaman looks good, Mera looks good, Atlantis looks amazing.

Black Manta looks good, apart from the helmet. It needs to have 2 eyes, not some knock-off Cyclops / Cylon line.

And Orm needs to stick with the New 52 design.

He seems good with facial expressions.

Jury is still out, until we see how he handles the speed and movement of the characters and the fight scenes and how he fits with the colorist, but overall I'm excited, definitely a step up from the previous art team (which was good, but not great and somewhat incosistent)

What did you guys think about the first issue with the new artist?

@jonny_anonymous: Pretty good. His background architecture for Atlantis was fantastic but his character drawing is his main strength. Those close up panels were so detailed.

It was really good, both the story and the art. A little bummed that Aquaman has become monthly.

I like da art but paul pelletier & martin engeland will always be my fav ac artist