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] darkknightjrk
2012-03-22 02:16 am UTC (link)
But Greek myths have been very intrigal to WW since Perez--complaining about using that as their base is like complaining about Batman stories because they're typically mysteries.

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[identity profile] fredneil.livejournal.com
2012-03-22 02:32 am UTC (link)
Not at all. One is a question of what material should be at the root, the other is a question of genre.

Besides, even if they have been integral since Perez, Wonder Woman's own mythos have been integral for decades longer, so they should still take precedence.

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[personal profile] labellementeuse
2012-03-22 09:45 am UTC (link)
But what's also been integral to Wonder Woman & the Amazons is, you know ... them not being heinous villains?

This is like saying that if you took the flagship Batfamily book and made it all about Bruce sexually abusing Robins and also fighting crime, it wouldn't be a travesty because the elements are all there in the original. They are, but it's still a violation of the character. It might be interesting as an Elseworld but it shouldn't be your full-time Batfamily book.

Also, it is sexist bullshit fears around matriarchal societies, as per usual.

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