sherkahn: Monarch from the Venture Brothers (The Monarch)sherkahn ([personal profile] sherkahn) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2012-03-21 01:26 pm UTC
Entry tags:char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: brian azzarello, creator: cliff chiang
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…
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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] jlbarnett
2012-03-21 11:12 pm UTC (link)
You know what: This is not the real Amazons of Paradise Island. THese are a tribe of the Bana. The real Amazons are isolated to this day. Hippolyta is just a name that frequantly features in their naming rituals because even if Antiope was pissed her sister didn't want revenge and was willing to beg for penance from the gods she still missed her.

Hippolyta's daughter being Diana, is either a massive coincidence or the gods being assholes by suggesting the name

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[personal profile] kenn_el
2012-03-21 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, this isn't new. The reason for two queens in the Perez WW was exactly this: so that there could exist the Amazons of legend who DID do this sort of thing, as well as the Paradise Island Amazons who were quite different and begat Diana (and in some instances Donna). The descendants of Antiope and her followers lent themselves quite well to whatever stories the New U might wish to tell.

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[personal profile] korvar
2012-03-22 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Curses, and I was going to be all clever and be the first to mention the Bana :)

But yeah, these aren't Themysciran Amazons, these are Bana-Mighdall.

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