You Brought Me the Ocean

More a coming-out romance than an action comic...

DC has been off my radar for years but they have been following the lead of Marvel and featuring fabulous writers. In this latest iteration of Aqualad, Lambda Award-winning author Sanchez reintroduces Jake Hyde as a high school student with secrets—some he understands and some he doesn’t. What he knows is that he needs to see the ocean and dreams of studying oceanography at the University of Miami. He knows he loves his best friend Maria, but is not in love with her. And he knows he is attracted to Kenny Liu the out high school swim captain. What he doesn’t know is how to tell everyone about that last truth. But he also doesn’t know that there’s more to his mother’s fear of him coming into contact with water or the secrets of his birthmarks. This is a coming-out romance more than an action comic and I enjoyed the characters and would love to see more them.

CW: Violent homophobia from a set of classmates.