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I have to credit BleedingCool.com for this.


I've touched on the Batman spoilers today, but they start off with the revelations about Diana and her people. It's a new low for DCnU.
It's a doozy and may not sit well with most of you. Heck, the new S_D protocols may even be triggered.

Fair warning, SPOILERS AHOY.



Shouldn't we have a tag for "everything you thought you knew was wrong."?

From the article:

"Paradise Island, has always been portrayed as a preserve of women, with new generations emerging… in an non-specific fashion. Formed from clay, or girls lost at sea transported to the island. The new Wonder Woman does away with any such niceties. The women of Paradise Island now set off on the seas looking for other ships, for seamen… or rather, semen. They have sex with the sailors, and then kill them. The sex may have been consensual, but what happened after certainly issn’t. Later, those that have conceived children give birth, the female children staying, the male children… becoming hellish slaves of the infernal weaponry workshop."


"It’s a nightmarish vision made real by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, the harshness of the stories of the Gods now made flesh in a much less palatable way. And given light to the thought that somewhere, working at a lithe, forging a mighty sword, unaware of his lineage, is Wonder Woman’s brother…
"


I guess Donna is going to have a say about this other brother, and I am not too fond of this darker, seedy Paradise Island. It honestly sounds like a brothel/labor camp of the gods than an ideal community led by women, made of women, for the women.

Date: 2012-03-21 09:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
I don't necissarily hate this... i mean it's sorta in keeping with the traditional greek myths, and Brian has said from the begining that he is exploring the mythological aspect of Woner Woman. I don't necissarily like it, as it is some what problematic... that said... while this did cause me to pause mid story, it doesn't, at least to me, take away from the fact that Wonder Woman is by far, next to BoP and TT, one of my favorite series' at thispoint.

Date: 2012-03-21 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jlbarnett
whatever the myths they sprang from Marston's Amazons were immortal, meaning there was no need for next generations meaning this does not fit the mythological aspect of Wonder Woman

Date: 2012-03-21 11:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
that was also something that bothered me... the gods are immortal? why can they have children and the amazons can't? the amazons are not actully immortal anyway, they can die, they just don't age... either way, while not all of them may want to have children, it seems almost cruel for them to be made to live forever and never have that option...

Date: 2012-03-21 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jlbarnett
because the way the Amazons lived didn't allow the oppurtunity

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