comics: Wonder Woman #26-33

[meganbmoore]

I concede, I became incapable of processing much else once Zeus started calling men Amazons and talking about rewarding the real ones with death. Thankfully, the book is still being written by Gail Simone, so I’m certain this will go badly for him. Even his own men seem to think he’s full of it.

And, err…in his mind, Diana was created to be a wife and mother? Didn’t he already try something like this way back when? Granted, then he was wanting her for himself, not Achilles, but still.

And! Hippolyta starts bringing back the Amazons! Yay! Phillipus is the first, as she should be, but I am deeply concerned by the fact that Artemis wasn’t right behind her. Ignoring the fact that Artemis is my favorite Wonder Woman character, she used to be Wonder Woman herself, and being an Amazon and having the two tribes on Themiscyra arguably means more to her than anyone besides Hippolyta. Like, as soon as she wasn’t there at the fire, I was fully expecting her to show up and help Diana?

I don’t particularly want to talk about Genocide ATM because WW is pretty much my comic book happy place, and I have mixed feelings about that story, which doesn’t seem to be finished yet.

I’m worried about Cassie, who seemed to disappear after being almost killed by Genocide, and it wasn’t really made clear how badly she was hurt, and about Etta. (The extreme violence targeted towards women is part of my problem with the arc, though it makes sense both with who Genocide is revealed to be, and with what will hurt Diana the most.) And I really hope this isn’t going to result in Diana and Donna being on bad terms for the foreseeable future.

And I feel for Tom, even though I’m not a fan of the Diana/Tom pairing. Or any pairing with Diana, really. (If I was going to pair her with someone, it’d be Artemis, but even that I have difficulty with.)

Also, Hippolyta has no problems fighting monsters in her nightgown and isn’t remotely sexualized while doing so. (Actually, I’ve noticed that, for the most part, Lopresti seems to be trying to avoid too much fanservice.) But mostly, she casually tells someone to get her a sword so she can take a winged horse and go fight sea monsters. Hippolyta kinda forever wins. Except for Amazons Attack. But for the sake of my sanity, that doesn’t exist.

And can someone who doesn’t shun Marvel and DC Big Events tell me why the Olympians showed up on Olympus with amnesia and looking like they wandered off a scifi TV set?
 

Comments

[havocthecat]

Sometimes I wonder why I don't read Wonder Woman regularly, and then I read a post like this and remember how confused I would get. But at least I get to keep up through other people's posts.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah. I think the fact that my introduction to superhero comics was the X-Books immediately after "X-Cutioner's Song" (as in, the issues right after that were all about characters talking about the fallout) helped a lot with my handling comic book confusion.