Hey what's the teenage namor series? Also love your blog!!!
Back in early 2000s Universal was talking about making a Namor solo movie, they even had a script written for it in 2004 however that script was Terrible, the movie was scrapped and never brought up again. However as this was going on, Marvel jumped on the wagon and said "If the Namor movie takes off then we need a comic to explain who he is to the new readers, so let's give them a Teen origin series" now this was about 2 years before the failed Aquaman teen tv show was thrown around by DC, so like just to wrap up, Teen Aquatic heroes were all the range in the early 2000s I guess, lol.
Anyways the Teen Namor series is just called Namor (2003) and it features 12 issues; Set in the 1930s, Namor meets a blonde girl named Sandy and they have one of those "she is a rich white girl, he is a dark skinned mixed heritage boy from the wrong side of the tracks surf" romance, her father is oil hungry and tricks the Atlanteans into think he is helping them. It's not a bad series, I actually enjoyed it a lot, and the art is by Salvador Larroca (back when he was a better artist imo bc these days his art feels very stiff).
Now most Namor fans don't include this in his normal canon because it doesn't make sense for him to have met Sandy and befriended her and known about humans before his debut comic where he had never before seen humans, or gone to the surface world. Betty Dean was the first human he ever befriended. However Marvel does include this in his canon even though it reads more like an AU.
However I would rec people read this because the writer really stressed how Namor wasn't accepted by his people and how he was looked down on by the humans, because he didn't fit in even though he had human skin tone.
Like he was invited to a party and this happens:
So this comic is really great for showing how Namor is considered an outsider in both worlds. I liked it, but what I really loved was how pretty Atlantis/the underwater scenes were.
