Just found this (old) interview by Johns talking about Aquaman.
http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/nycc-2011-geoff-johns-aquaman-interview
Nothing terribly new, but he does speak about his durability to an extent:
GJ: Well, if he can take the pressures of the ocean, he's got to have, not indestructible, but really tough skin. He's super strong. You see him leap away a few times. His skin can be pierced by bullets, like nicked, and if he gets hit by a bazooka shell, it's going to burn him and screw him up a bit, but he could still walk around. So I wanted to make him tough and I think the best way to show that is to have him hit by that bullet and that look on his face tells you everything.
Not bad, and certainly a step up from the pre-reboot portrayals, but even now it seems Johns has decided to go beyond that, judging by his feats of late.
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Also, in JL #18 we're going to see Black Adam's origin, apparently.
i just clicked it and it worked for me...
Here's the interview just in case:
Paul Furfari: So Geoff I want to talk to you about just Aquaman.Geoff Johns: Awesome, I love talking about just Aquaman.
PF: Aquaman has never been a favorite character of mine; no idea why, he's just never connected with me, until I read issue #1. It's easily my favorite comic of The New 52. Aquaman feels relevant to me now. He was funny without trying too hard. One of the things I noticed in the book was that there was a bit of wink, wink, nudge, nudge going on with characters that interacted with Aquaman...it felt like they were purposely poking fun at readers and Aquaman's previous iterations. How conscious were you in breaking the fourth wall?
GJ: It was a very conscious choice, but what I wanted to do was take...basically try to make the books as accessible as possible, because everyone's heard of Aquaman. You may not have read him before, but you've heard about him. I wanted to everything everyone knew about him, but that also includes the misperceptions and the jokes. So in order to really connect with an audience that knows Aquaman and maybe doesn't really read the comic, I wanted to include all that in him and I felt like one of the themes of the book is responsibility and just being who you are and accepting that and Aquaman has had to do that over and over, so it just all kind of made sense when I approached the book to make sure that that was part of his world and part of what he deals with.
He is the biggest underdog superhero in comics right? Probably in fiction. If you say "Who's the worst superhero?," most people will probably say Aquaman.
PF: He's got a lot of going against him.
GJ: Yeah, because they've (fans) have never heard of... most people have never heard of Namor or haven't heard of the little wings on his feet, or they haven't heard of all these other characters that we might perceive as lame characters, but everyone's heard of Aquaman. I think he just has a stigma against him, so I wanted him to have to deal with that as much as the writers and artists do.
PF: Now you said responsibility is kind of a big thing for Aquaman. There are lines in the first issue about him giving up the crown of Atlantis already, so we have some back story, some history. How much are you really going to go into that (in future issues?)
GJ: Everything that is presented in the book will be brand new, so we will go into the history that's never really been revealed and we'll go into his relationship with Atlantis. It's very complex because he's an outsider; he's an outsider to us, he's an outsider to them, he's right on the coast. That coast is a line he has to walk. That's why there's that lighthouse (in issue #1) because he's trapped between these two worlds, so he doesn't have a home anywhere and he's trying to make a home here (on land) because he feels more connected and more accepted here, even if it's as a joke. At least he's still doing some good here. And with Atlantis we'll come to discover that his isn't so...they might see him as their king and recognize that, but that doesn't mean they like him.
PF: Is Boston going to be his home base?
GJ: That will be his big city, but he'll really be in Amnesty Bay, where the lighthouse is. So the coastline, all up and down there.
PF: By the end of issue #1, you have this horror bent. There's these mermen that come up from the trench and there's this horror aesthetic. Is this a conscious choice to make it more horror and will that pervade the entire series? Is it just this story arc?
GJ: Well, I was researching the deep sea and sea animals, the ocean in general, and the angler fish are pretty nasty creatures. So the trench is sort of based, you'll learn more about them. They are a glimpse of the horrific world at the bottom of the ocean and beyond that Aquaman has never faced, that we have never really encountered. They are still learning and meeting new species every day, so I wanted to go as horrific and bizarre as I could. And you haven't even really seen how bizarre these creatures can get. They are pretty nasty.
PF: Where do you want to take Aquaman from here?
GJ: I plot long term, so I have a long-term arc. Really the genesis of the first year sends Aquaman on a quest to see who sank Atlantis, because he learns it wasn't an accident. Someone did it and that someone is still around, so that's the underpinnings of this first year, learning about his Atlantean heritage, but still staying on land.
PF: Well, that's all my questions for now. So I want to thank you, I know you're a busy man.
GJ: I have to give a shout out to Ivan Reis (penciller on Aquaman) and Joe Prado (inker on Aquaman). The artwork is just breathtaking and these images of Aquaman and colors are really beautiful.
PF: Actually one more question, about Aquaman and his powers. He has telepathy that he can use to-
GJ: it's pushing their primitive brains to make them do what he wants them to do.
PF: But he also deflects a bullet at one point.
GJ: Well, if he can take the pressures of the ocean, he's got to have, not indestructible, but really tough skin. He's super strong. You see him leap away a few times. His skin can be pierced by bullets, like nicked, and if he gets hit by a bazooka shell, it's going to burn him and screw him up a bit, but he could still walk around. So I wanted to make him tough and I think the best way to show that is to have him hit by that bullet and that look on his face tells you everything. When he looks up, and he's got that blood (coming down from above his eye), he's got a look that says-
PF: Game on.
GJ: Yeah, game on.
Before he disappeared into the crowd of people at New York Comic Con, Johns briefly talked about scenes that we'll be seeing in upcoming issues, including a touching scene of Aquaman remembering his father on the ocean's shore. Aquaman's father was a lighthouse keeper, who fell in love with an Atlantean and Aquaman was the result of that forbidden relationship. Once separated, he on land, she in the sea, he promised to go to the same spot on the shore every day and wait for her. Aquaman recalls his father going to the beach every day to look for a "whale," he says, that just never comes. Touching stuff for a superhero everyone has slammed over the years.
Newsarama's top 10 to look forward to in 2013...
Multiversity at #1.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/10-to-watch-in-2013-series.html
DC/Vertigo had the most books in CBR's top 100. Coming in 2nd place was Image and then Dark Horse.
Having just finished reading Superman #15, I can safely say that Scott has finally gotten a hold of Superman's voice, which is all that he needed to make him, by far, the best Superman writer [both the character and his world] other than Grant Morrison in a long, long time.
Lex Luthor was amazing here, as was his relation with Superman, as was Superman's attitude in general.