Aqualad

I think the fact that Carrie Payton is a voice actor really lends itself to the... whole speech pattern he's got I'm like you can tell because he speaks and I'm like I don't know what the hell you're talking about but you sound good keep going I think yeah he

did his big one was Cyborg I think for Teen Titans he was Aqualad and Young Justice Grimlock and Transformers he played Black Samson in Invincible which is that Steven Yeun show where a lot of other Walking Dead stars have and it's of course a Robert Kirkman thing the penguin king in the super mario brothers movie but my favorite is he was one of the sims in sims 3 and so sometimes on panels people would ask him to do the whole simlish thing and oh tico party like that you know it was funny

He was in Stray Gods as well, which Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson from Critical Role were also in, and The Last of Us.

Actually, yeah, Ashley from The Last of Us.

And then I found the promo stub for it where I'm excited.

Based on the upcoming hit animated show from Warner Brothers debuting on Cartoon Network, Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash, and Aqualad star in this explosive issue, kickstarting an all new ongoing series.

There are four young superheroes learning how to be a teen and maybe doing a bit of growing up along the way, but only just a little bit.

So yeah, that was attached to this particular one.

I would say one of the things that you can tell right out, I mean, we've referenced it enough times, but it's kind of obvious from some of the early dialogue.

Like, you know, you knew these characters by the time you're writing this comic book, because my favorite early line is Wally getting corrected.

No, it's Robin, Aqualad, and I.

And Superboy's immediate response of, you weren't there.

So General Zod, General Drew Zod, was created by Robert Bernstein and George Papp for April 1961's Adventure Comics number 283.

Bernstein is mostly forgotten today, but he was a writer for EC Comics who went on to make significant contributions to Aquaman and Superman lore, including the co-creation of Aqualad, Tula, Kongorilla, and The Phantom Zone.

before ending his comics career at Archie, where he co-created the Jaguar.

Meanwhile, George Papp co-created Green Arrow and Congo Bill, and was a longtime Superboy artist.

of went viral because it's also kind of

the first time Aqualad's name has been invoked in all of this in a while.

My thing ultimately, like this was just a fun exchange to begin with, but like Sony is never letting Tom free at this point.

Like that movie made so much money.

Like he has really made Spider-Man his own and whatever projects he does outside of that.

I feel like, like Jamie said, they're kind of like stretching different creative muscles.

I also feel like, um, when we get to like the Aqualad and Aquaman side of things in the DCU, like we don't need Aqualad to be roughly the same age as Superman.

Like that's kind of an age differential.

My, uh, my favorite Spider-Man thing I saw over the weekend was somebody hit up James Gunn on Threads, and they're like, "You should get Tom Holland in the DCU.

He could be like Kid Flash or Aqualad." And James Gunn responded like, "I don't think the guy who plays Spider-Man is gonna come over to be Aqualad." [laughs] Like...

That's so funny.

Yeah.