Aquaman is Better Than You

This is a cold, irrefutable fact. Do you really think you're better than Aquaman? Are the following true for you?

• You can threaten ageless sea deities of unfathomable power -- with a smile!
  
• You nonchalantly brush off the fact that you're about to become "the vessel of power strange, ancient, and terrible."
• You don't just look good in orange and green -- you look damn good.
• You can handle the bones of you own severed hand without getting even a little squeamish.
• You are "Best Friends Forever" with the one and only Martian Manhunter.
• You routinely raise sunken cities from the depths of the sea through sheer force of will.
  
• You "will not... Fail."

Is all of that true? If not, Aquaman is better than you.

Black Rain

And so it begins. Black Adam -- one of the world's most powerful meta-humans -- has gone beyond the brink. In less than two days Black Adam has destroyed an entire country. He has slain millions of innocents. And it's only going to get worse.

His next stop is Oolong Island. And though some of the inhabitants there show fear -- the man after them has the power of six gods, after all -- one of them seems to be gleefully anticipating the showdown. Indeed, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana seems to relish in the coming showdown. And though he is known for grandiose posturing, he's not stupid, either.

Bruno Mannheim doesn't seem particularly concerned, either. Which means there is more to Intergang's plans than there initially seemed. Would they really have engineered four Apokoliptian monstrosities simply for the right to pass smuggled guns through the Sinai Peninsula? No, there is more at work here…

Of course, we know how this all ends. It ends with World War III. We've already seen forces beginning to mobilize, but things haven't quite yet hit their apex. What will Black Adam do to finally set things off? What will happen next week when he directs his rage at the inhabitants of Oolong Island?

Whatever happens, it won't be pretty.