tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608317781914932095.post6899752761239608838..comments2023-05-20T05:19:32.469-05:00Comments on Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman: Sensational Comics for June, 2012Diabolu Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608317781914932095.post-13652916030913064042012-03-22T23:25:23.373-05:002012-03-22T23:25:23.373-05:00That, and not play the death card inside the first...That, and not play the death card inside the first year...Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608317781914932095.post-90036133914089689142012-03-22T16:17:02.266-05:002012-03-22T16:17:02.266-05:00Oh, I agree - I have oodles of WW books with cover...Oh, I agree - I have oodles of WW books with covers depicting Di in controversial situations, Red For Death with her toting a machine gun in Red China being amongst them. And I would posit the idea that many WW covers are there for 'surprise value' and bear little or no relation to the comics insides. Im willing to give them the benefit of the doubt nevertheless as I worship our lovely lady too much.<br />What I find a bit disturbing is the most recent issue which depicts the Amazons as 'rapists' of men, abandoning/destroying male babies and so on. Surely growing up amongst them Diana mustve known what they were like doing this, which I find rather worrying. One advantage of this unsettling issue is at least WW appears more confident and settled as a character and ready and willing to play her murderous Gods/family at their own game, and play it better - we've just got to lose that 'penis proxy' sword fetish as you say and get her back to her Lasso and bracelets schtick.karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07814365568280298681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608317781914932095.post-65004149604961588812012-03-22T01:33:23.800-05:002012-03-22T01:33:23.800-05:00Karl, I actually like the shock value of the guns,...Karl, I actually like the shock value of the guns, recalling oodles of old WW covers and stuff like Diana working at Taco Whiz. The trick is to throw Wonder Woman a major curve ball and watch her adapt with skill, grace and wit. Everything I've read about the current run indicates that Diana is an idiot who managed to reach full adulthood (minimum current age of early twenties, right?) without being aware of basic elements of her own culture. Whether it's guns or a sword, WW is running around with a penis proxy instead of a lasso and betraying all of her creator's ideals in favor of hyperviolent misogynist revisionist schlock. I passed on the hardcover, and despite raves will do the same in softcover. I'm sick of people who don't understand the most obvious and essential elements of the character telling me this is some great revitalization, when it's really just adulteration and abandonment of any pretense of integrity. I just wrote a comment elsewhere raving over the long delayed <i>Marshal Law Omnibus</i>, so I'm no fuddy-duddy. It's just that I want Wonder Woman to be Wonder Woman, not the dupe of psychotic mass murderers.Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608317781914932095.post-63591561500664953352012-03-21T17:38:15.879-05:002012-03-21T17:38:15.879-05:00Looking so forward to the Twelve Labors trade; I o...Looking so forward to the Twelve Labors trade; I ordered this many months ago. Two of those very issues remind me of the Seventies so much, in so many ways...<br />The current WW cover? Diana holding guns? How tasteless, and demonstrating how DC writers and editors just cant get a grip on her character. This ongoing storyline is reflective of Greg Rucka's time on the book, with its Gods manipulations and Diana subject to their whims and mercies. Hopefully as this progresses she will take a more centralised role and all these peripheral characters will fall away.karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07814365568280298681noreply@blogger.com