Captain Fear

With the season of spookiness upon us, I thought for sure that the one thing I was guaranteed to get from 75 years of seafaring adventures was a story where Aquaman had to fight a ghost ship. It's one of those things that feels like it has to have happened at some point, but... here we are. As near as I can tell --- and please tell me if I'm wrong about this --- there has never actually been a story where Aquaman took on an undead crew of pirates out for blood and vengeance. The closest we ever got was a story where he actually teamed up with one instead --- and even that didn't happen until 2011.

It seems odd that a new project from a major publisher by one of the unquestionable masters of the art form could be released without a whole lot of fanfare, but it seems like that's exactly what happened with The Judas Coin. A brand new hardcover graphic novel by Walter Simonson seems like the kind of thing that would have a huge push behind it, but while it might just be me not paying attention