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Detention of Doom (DC Comics: Secret Hero Society #3). Published December 26, 2017.
“Maybe it’s best for us to stay close so we don’t get separated in the darkness.”
“Good idea. Let’s hold hands.”
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WonderBat upon a dream Wonder Woman #800
Fully obsessed with Diana and Clark roasting Bruce. Plus bonus hug. 😍
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Bruce: I’m just trying to solve this case, and everyone’s making a huge deal because I have a few minor injuries to my ribs, ankle, hand, toes, and jaw.
Diana: Jaw?!
Bruce: Yeah, that just happened. I got hit in the face with a box.
Clark: Go home and get better, Bruce. Now!
Bruce: All right, fine. But I’m taking this box of evidence with me.
Diana: If you can pick it up, you can take it.
Bruce: Deal.
[ Bruce tries to pick it up while groaning in pain the entire time. ]
I’m so tired of reading comics titled “Justice League” that are actually just the Superman and Batman show.
I just finished reading Justice League: Last Ride and it’s super obvious that the writer does not care about Diana’s perspective at all. (Or any of the other Justice League members, tbf.)
It’s so focused on Batman and Superman’s pain over J’onn’s death that it completely ignores that Diana would be blaming herself for the loss. She was the one on planet, she was the one that Bruce initially reached out to for help, and she was the one who couldn’t make it there on time. Anyone remember JLA: League of One, where she actually incapacitated all of the other team members so that she would be the only one risking her life? I don’t think she would blame Bruce or Clark because she would respect that J’onn is able to make his own choices, but she would blame herself for putting him in a situation where he felt he had to make that choice.
And, tbh, the way the scene is portrayed, it really doesn’t feel like Diana was injured enough that she wouldn’t have been able to get there in time. This might just be the fault of the artist, but I don’t really think that one stab wound is enough to take Diana out. If she couldn’t even stand, I would believe it, but if she can stand, she can fly and move a heck of a lot faster than she’s shown doing here. Obviously, J’onn has to die in order for the story the writer wants to tell to be presented, but imagine how heartbreaking this scene could be if done by a writer that actually cares about Diana’s perspective. Like compare Clark’s reaction to Diana’s. He’s devastated while she’s doing a shocked Pikachu face. This isn’t at all a bad comic, but it’s clearly not for Wonder Woman fans. (Or Flash fans or Green Lantern fans tbh because they get somehow get even less focus.)
Wonder Woman: Black and Gold #1
These two are always flirting in the weirdest situations and I love it. Also, don’t think I didn’t catch that pun, Bruce.
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Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 (2021)
written by Becky Cloonan & Michael W. Conrad art by Jen Bartel
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…But both of us, we’re ready to fight with you. One last time. As long as you’ll have us.
Dark Nights - Death Metal #5
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Wonder Woman vs. Typhon watercolors commission (2020)
Art by: Matías Bergara
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Rock the Vote: Battle for the Vote (2020)
written by Andrew Aydin art by Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, & Chris Sotomayor
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Nicola Scott showed old art from her high school days and this one has me floored.
This looks like they got caught in the act and tried to get dressed before they got busted, but got confused in the madness. I love it.
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I have to write a thing discussing the integrity of a volume of DC’s The New 52 (including defining integrity) as opposed to a film adaptation, and it’s taking everything in my power not to begin this paper with, “Reader, when I say I laughed to see ‘artistic integrity’ and The New 52 in the same sentence…”
@beastenraged ultimate truth right there. what else are you supposed to be writing about?
I have to discuss the integrity of Wonder Woman Volume 1: Blood (The New 52) and Wonder Woman (2017) as adaptations of the character, and judge whether or not one of them has greater integrity and/or fidelity.
Some of the more interesting notes so far:
- There’s 1 writer, 5 authors, and 7 editors and creative directors credited in the creation of this comic book, and ALL OF THEM are men (and about 20 more people involved in marketing and sales and etc., some of whom are women). And yeah, Wonder Woman was created by a dude (a polyam, kinky dude who believed women were going to rule the world someday), but 13 creatives and not one woman involved in the relaunch of the longest-running female superhero (and third-longest-running superhero, after Superman and Batman) in comic book history? Really?!
“The launch of the New 52 was criticized for the lack of female creators, which had dropped from 12% to 1%, the latter figure represented by writer Gail Simone and Amy Reeder, an alternating artist on Batwoman who would not debut on that title until issue #6.[130] This led to a tense interaction between fans and DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con,[130][131] where DiDio was asked by a fan about the drop in female creators from 12% to 1%. DiDio responded saying, “What do those numbers mean to you? What do they mean to you? Who should we be hiring? Tell me right now. Who should we be hiring right now? Tell me.”[131]”
- WOW, DUDE. Defensive, much? Also 1% female creators?! ONE PERCENT?! That’s, uh, that’s bad. Dude is straight-up admitting here that he doesn’t fucking know any female comic book authors or artists, that’s fucking embarrassing. Dude, are you making this random person at a panel responsible for DC Comics’ hiring now? Shut the fuck up and hire diversely. It’s not that hard.
- From “George Perez Explains His ‘Frustrating’ Superman Experience In The New 52″ by Graeme McMillan:
“I became very frustrated,” Perez added, explaining that there were basic questions about the character’s new status quo that DC editorial couldn’t answer for him. “Are the Kents alive? What’s his relationship with all of these characters? Who exists? And DC couldn’t give me answers. I said, ‘Oh, my gosh. You’re deciding all these things and you mean even you don’t know what’s going on in your own books?”
- Bad.
- Apparently it’s almost impossible to really measure what the publicity/business stunt that is The New 52 really did for DC Comics, because this is when DC Comics also started making digital copies of their comics available.
- This comic book is apparently where Wonder Woman (2017) got Diana’s new origin story, in which she is the bastard daughter of Zeus. This article breaks it down excellently: “Wonder Woman’s New 52 Origin Should Not Be Used in Film (or At All)” by Alan Kistler, https://www.themarysue.com/dont-use-wonder-woman-new-52-origin-in-film/. More coherently than me saying, “HI, I FUCKING LOATHE THAT WONDER WOMAN GETS HER POWERS FROM A RAPIST (who is committing adultery and/or reproductive coercion at best) WHO IS REPRESENTATIVE OF ANCIENT, MISOGYNISTIC PATRIARCHY.”
- So, in this comic book, Hippolyta has perpetuated the “sculpted from clay” story in order to protect Diana from Hera’s wrath. The god Hermes tell this story to another character and ends it by saying, “Wonder Woman is the perfect Amazon - no male seed created her.” Which is, you know, a far fucking cry from the original comics, in which the Amazons hold a contest to choose their best and brightest to represent their people and fight evil in the outside world, which Diana wins. Like it’s Diana’s asexual, man-free origins that make her “perfect” by the standards of her people, which is misandrist and arguably transphobic.
- What the fuck is wrong with the Galatea myth? It’s a good origin! It makes Diana comparable to a golem (which is kind of cool, taking into account the Jewish-American history of superhero comic books) or an android. The movie handles this new origin slightly less offensively, imo, but the movie also commits the offense of mangling Greek mythology to create an annoyingly Christian depiction of Zeus as a benevolent creator of humankind and Ares as a jealous son of heaven who tears the gods apart. So, either way, I’m angry.
- The Amazons were apparently originally depicted by Marston as technologically advanced philosophers, scientists, and futurists, who also happened to be warriors. Which, you know, makes this comic’s interpretation of the Amazons as scantily clad soldiers with a fracturing sisterhood who resent Diana, romanticize violent death on the battlefield, and have nothing to their way of life besides bronze-age fighting, particularly annoying. No wonder Wonder Woman can’t act as an ambassador of her people to humankind in this comic book (the outside world is, at best, set dressing to cutthroat, petty, selfish Olympian politics and Diana only talks to one (1) human woman throughout this entire volume), when the Amazons are apparently, at best, an isolated and violent relic of a different age.
- I don’t think the film is flawless. I once described the film to a coworker as, “The first draft of a film I would have really liked to see.” But holy shit, at least the film is not this comic book. I’m serious, Diana only talks to one (1) human being over the course of this entire volume. It is completely unclear how Wonder Woman is regarded by the world or what her activities are as a hero, or how Zola (the human woman) recognizes Diana as Wonder Woman. Diana’s interactions with the gods are hostile if not violent, and overall extremely petty. Hera is the main villain and Diana’s main motivation in finally confronting her is apparently revenge after Hera wrecks the Amazons. I have next to no idea where Diana stands as a hero. She’s just a modern fucking Heracles in this.
- That’s not fucking “original” or “subversive”. This is not a “new take”. Just admit that you can’t come up with something actually interesting for Wonder Woman and go away. This comic book’s main redeeming quality is that Diana is drawn as buff, but half of the Amazons are basically wearing armor bikinis or crop-top armor, so no credit there either, actually. (Some people have complimented the designs of the gods, but imo they’re decent or mediocre at best. Also, WOW, Greek gods will be depicted as anything but Greek, huh?)
- As a side note, I think I have beef with the reckless pursuit of “originality” in adaptations of all long-standing superhero properties. Like, being derivative is inescapable. You don’t always have to flee it. Own it. Fidelity can be sexy.
- I forgot where I was going with this.
- Anyway, I’m mad and I’m like 4x over the word limit.
The worst bit is that because the movie has good aspects and did so well, that Zeus being Diana’s father is now the perspective that most people will have of Wonder Woman coming into the comics, which makes it way less likely to be retconned that if it was a story that only appeared in the comics universe.
Justice League Annual #2 (2018)
Today in cute background events, we have Bruce struggling and failing to remove his batarang that has been wedged into the wall, Diana effortlessly removing it when he gives up, and casually handing it to him without saying anything about it.
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I remember reading something, a headcanon a while ago… last year on tumblr, can’t find it now.
About the Birds of metropolis being used to Superman flying and considering him one of their own. Also, the birds not understanding the concept of Secret identities.
So I thought I’d take that idea a bit further. Clark gets Diana to help him explain what a Secret Identity is… her powers of talking to animals and all.
But this idea in current comics is kinda useless since Clark revealed his Identity