Wonder Woman #07 rotting spoilers

[sherkahn]

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.

Comments

[ancarett]

This part from bleeding cool's description, quoted in the post:

"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…"

Although I suppose they mean lathe not lithe (however, one doesn't forge a sword at a lathe, either).

[darkknightjrk]

I think Johnson wasn't really reading it all too carefully--there was nothing like that in the book. She discovers that Hephaestus has been taking in the male babies that the Amazons would birth and raising them to help in his forging business. She calls them all brothers because they are related to the Amazons.

[icon_uk]

Though I have a feeling one of them WILL be her actual brother (possibly a twin, with a parallel to Nubia of old) and fellow child of Zeus.

[darkknightjrk]

Why? We already got a whole bunch of Zeus' Bastards (excellent name for a band, BTW) to use, from Zola's unborn child, to Lennox--not to mention if/when they bring back Hercules.

[icon_uk]

Because, aside from sibling rivalry being a staple of more legends and myths than I can name it A) Gives us an "equal but opposite" to Wonder Woman, someone with the exact same parentage and power potential (Rather than the esoteric abilities that others have) and it also gives us something new, someone who has a grudge against Hippolyta for rejecting him just because he happened to be male.

[korvar]

My thought is that he's going to forge a sword for Diana to use, rather than one to wield himself.