Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

by Ryan Poll

Book Overview

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.

Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496225856
• ISBN13: 9781496225856
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"