The day the sea and shade both wanted to be sky

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from WONDER WOMAN 6...

Now that Zeus has gone missing, both Poseidon and Hades want to take his place.







The proposal is that Poseidon and Hades, instead of beating the crap out of each other to decide who succeeds Zeus, like the two originally planned, share the throne by entering into a three-way bigamous marriage with Hera.

Hera, understandably, shows up to express her displeasure at the idea.





She teleports to Mt. Olympus, where she uses the candle to destroy Hera's scrying pool. Hera, being on Earth, can't return quickly enough to stop her. Which was the plan all along.

Hades is pretty pissed off at being played, but Poseidon just finds the whole thing amusing.

Comments

[his_spiffynesss]

Yet back in #2 we see Hera gowned and resplendent, but she travels around on earth in just a open fronted cloak?

[omnipotent]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too, and in one of the panels she even has to hold it in place to keep her decency. At that point, might as well just go au naturel.

[icon_uk]

She's a goddess so physical considerations of comfort are probably irrelevant, and she's out to impress the mere mortals who she feels should worship her, and that outfit would certainly get their attention more quickly than the robes would.

[practicalcat]

If she's going for the "impressive", she probably shouldn't have gone with the "I have to hold this closed to preserve the rating on this comic" pose. It undercuts the power of "bow down before the Queen of Olympus!" when she's standing like "crap, I need an emergency safety pin!"