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sherkahn ([personal profile] sherkahn) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2012-03-21 13:26

Wonder Woman #07 rotting spoilers

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.
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[personal profile] icon_uk 2012-03-21 21:46 (UTC)(link)
That really doesn't excuse the "Seduce men then murder them in cold blood even if they have done nothing to deserve it" which is already bad enough.
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[personal profile] shadowpsykie 2012-03-21 21:52 (UTC)(link)
yeah... again, i don't necissarily hate this interpretation (keep in mind we are only hearing the gods' point of view) it could be true, but to what extent and how exactly the reasons are, we don't know. as they are all stone right now...

while i don't hate it, i don't like it. and it is without a doubt problematic... that said, other than this, I have really loved Brian's run so ia m going to see how this plays out....

[personal profile] darkknightjrk 2012-03-21 22:04 (UTC)(link)
That's definitely a dick move, certainly, I'm just saying that the revelation with the Smith taking the kids in makes this take lighter than the Greek mythos regardless.