Quick Hits: Justice League #17 (DC)

"Throne of Atlantis" concludes where it began, in the pages of Justice League rather than Aquaman, which is incredibly brilliant on the part of Geoff Johns.  Traditionally when a writer is trying to draw attention to a character or series that for whatever reason probably isn't or won't be inherently popular they have a character who is popular make an appearance in that series.  Where Geoff has wisely determined that it is probably far more effective to make the character who could use some positive mojo make a significant appearance in a book that is popular.  As excellent as Aquaman has been, Justice League by definition, even though both are written by the same popular writer, has greater exposure.  "Throne" is an incredibly personal story for Aquaman, but it was made into a full-blown event, the first one since the opening story in Justice League to help it behave like the monthly event book that I've been calling it all along.  Everyone wins, and this conclusion is entirely appropriate, because it's more or less entirely an issue of Aquaman itself.