Poor Aquaman. He always gets a bad rap. Not the "King Arthur/I Know What You Did Last Summer/Candyman" Aquaman, as I think thanks to some amazing writing by Peter David and the awesome characterization of Arthur in the JLU toon, he's gotten some serious street cred. If they have streets in Atlantis, I mean. But it's this orange-and-green Aquaman that has the bad rap.

The Maynard G. Krebs of the Super Friends, Aquaman was always bumming a ride off of Wonder Woman or getting atop his trusty purple seahorse (not a kinky metaphor there, folks) Storm, he was jet-skiing. Freaking jet-ski, man. That's like Superman hopping on a frigging jetBlue shuttle to the San Andreas fault. Or the Flash getting on a Segway. Or Batman driving a car.

Hm. Nevermind.

Regardless, I think this costume rules. Maybe it's the orange and green simplicity. Or the practical yet stylish black trunks. Or maybe it's because I once owned a set of Aquaman Underoos. He's had a couple of other outfits, the most notable being Aquahook. If I do that one, I'm sure mine will more closely resemble the Timmverse version of that. There's also the No-Limit Soldier Aquaman in his Aquacamo outfit from the mid-80's. While goofy-looking, I think it could look neat. Until then, the orange & green outfit is smoother than a pat of SWV butter slathered on an R&B biscuit.

Not a lot to this guy: just a headswap with Captain Atom, since Captain Atom has that really nice gameshow host hair. And the JLA Classified Aquaman was way too mean-looking to look like Underoo Arthur. Nice scowl and all, but I wasn't going for Dick Cheney. I wanted Peter Tomarken.

The hands had to go, too, and I can't think of a better set of gloves for McG-style figures than DCD Max Mercury gloves. I Dremeled off the belt buckle (great fishy design on that thing, though) and sculpted on that delta/A-symbol thing.

After painting him down with some Tamiya goodness and sealed with Dullcote, Aquaman is ready to lay the smackdown on Black Manta, Gorton's fisherman-style.

No whammies...STOP!