DC Recruits Marvel Comics Heavyweight Kelly Sue DeConnick For Aquaman

One of the most fecund laughable writers in the manufacture today , DeConnick first found mainstream fame as the writer behind a popular revamp of Carol Danvers , aka . Captain Marvel . Having develop up on a serial of United States Air Force bases , DeConnick proved a rude for fascinate the voice of Carol Danvers , who also come from a military syndicate and served as a Major in the USAF before becoming a superhero . DeConnick is also famous as a translator of manga , having work on the English versions ofBlack CatandFruits Basket . She has also won fame and courted contention with her satiric science - fiction seriesBitch Planet .

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DeConnick pitched her idea for anAquamanseries straight off to Geoff Johns ( at the timeCCO of DC Entertainment ) and Dan Abnett , the current writer on the monthlyAquamanbook . DeConnick will be joined by creative person Robson Rocha . Her first arc will apparently involve both the fabulous sea idol of various earth cultures and Arthur Curry confronting his tactual sensation of abandonment regarding his female parent , the former Queen of Atlantis .

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While DeConnick is best bonk for her work with Marvel Comics , this is not the first time she has cultivate for their " Distinguished Competitor . " Indeed , she has a pictorial novel with artist Phil Jimenez come out in August as part of DC Comics ' newDC Black Labelline . The new book , Wonder Woman : Historia - The Amazons , will reveal the hereto unsung history of the nation of Themyscira and detail how Hippolyta earned her spot as the Queen of the Amazons . DeConnick also wrote a brief run onSupergirlin 2011 , just before the New 52 revamp of DC Comics ' entire line , as well as a unmarried issue ofThe Adventures of Supermanin 2014 .

While DeConnick has not been signed to an undivided contract , this is still quite the coup d’etat for DC Comics . The enlisting of a author of DeConnick ’s status signals a significant switching in the big businessman struggle between the two recollective - metre rivals . DeConnick has an fantastically loyal fan base that will follow her anywhere and a mythic exploration of the sea cultures of the DC Comics creation seems a natural follow - up to the recent events in Abnett ’s run that weremore politically focussed .