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Incoming Comics Info. Multiplicity, Wonder Woman: Earth One and More!

2013-05-11T07:56:42Z

Posted by: espanolbot

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My favourite depiction of Wonder Woman's birth

2012-06-08T02:15:53Z

Posted by: thespis

From Gail Simone's The Circle:

( So beautiful )

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Wonder Woman #601

2010-07-31T20:06:38Z

Posted by: swatkat

Four pages from Wonder Woman #601 under cut.
( Warrrr )

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It's the day we celebrate Moms

2010-05-08T22:30:48Z

Posted by: thebigapricot

( a mother of a post inside )

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Wonder Woman #43 Preview

2010-04-26T18:02:28Z

Posted by: a_clericalerror

Source.
PG's boob window? It's empowering or a symbol placeholder or something.
Helena's bare abs? She worked out a lot.
Wonder Woman's whole ensemble?
( Explaining ridiculous costumes )

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Gail Simone's Wonder Woman and Devin Grayson's Inheritance

2010-04-10T06:11:53Z

Posted by: 3goodtimes

( Diana or Casanova? )

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Some GA/BC Wedding Album stuff...

2010-03-28T03:40:50Z

Posted by: benicio127

I promised to post some Mia stuff for sweettart1823 . This was one of my favourite scenes of her from the Wedding Album tpb.

And some scenes with Amander Conner art!

( in which Mia is crass and hilarious )

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fanart and context-free frivolity

2010-03-17T02:58:10Z

Posted by: 3goodtimes

( There are a LOT of images under the cut. You have been warned. )

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1 preview

2009-11-27T14:53:59Z

Posted by: xdoop

[Banned]

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Wonder Woman #36

2009-10-05T22:49:53Z

Posted by: xdoop.insanejournal.com

( Images behind the cut. )

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Heh.

2009-08-24T04:01:58Z

Posted by: scottyquick.insanejournal.com

( Adorableness and badassery under the cut )

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Wedding Bells

2009-07-29T18:58:07Z

Posted by: colonel_green.insanejournal.com

Four scans from Fantastic Four #569.

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And two from Wonder Woman #34.

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Wondy 33

2009-06-24T21:29:29Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

Four pages from today's Wondy.

( SPOILER SPOILER SPOILERY MASSIVE SPOILERS HERE. )

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Hippolyta being bad ass

2009-06-23T15:55:53Z

Posted by: sherkahn.insanejournal.com

New previews from Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian - part 8

I will skip my usual complaints and just Wonder about this image.

From IGN.

( How Themyscira became Monster Island )

*edit* sorry it took me so long to fix the LJ cut

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More Wonder Woman Fanart

2009-06-23T10:20:21Z

Posted by: bunniegrrl.insanejournal.com

( More Wonder Woman Fanart )

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Wonder Woman redesigns

2009-05-30T12:58:24Z

Posted by: unknownscribler.insanejournal.com

( 5 under the cut )

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Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story

2009-05-25T10:14:32Z

Posted by: xdoop.insanejournal.com

In this post I will be showing the classic romance of Donna Troy and Terry Long, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

( Images behind the cut. )

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Nubia Then and Now, I of II - Then

2009-04-08T06:07:55Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

The Wonder Woman mythos, plagued as it has been by "take over, change everything"-itis, has a fair number of supporting cast members who no one has ever heard of. These are the little guys who get a name and a relationship to Diana like they're supposed to be important, but have maybe five minutes of panel time in a run or, perhaps, if they're lucky, a whole storyarc, and then are never heard from again. Many of them, admittedly, were ignored by subsequent writers for a reason; the Sphinx and Quinn and Officer Modini and Bobby Trevor aren't exactly compelling pillars of characterization and interest, and don't have much to recommend themselves for further use.

Some of those lost characters are really damn cool, though, and deserve to be unearthed, brushed off and given a second look and another spin through the canon. One such buried gem is the amazon Nu'bia.

( Part the First. )

Scans are from Wonder Woman v1 #204-206, Supergirl v1 #9, and Super Friends #25. I cannot believe Super Friends ran longer than Supergirl. There is no justice in the world.

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When Wondy was Awesome, part 13 (Amazon Queen)

2009-03-27T12:19:00Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

Back in the summer of 2001, DC kicked off one of their many epic, universe-spanning Crossover Events with an issue of SUPERMAN in which Pluto goes missing. Yes, Pluto, the ~~planet~~ astral body. This Crossover Event was "Our Worlds at War," and it was not particularly well-received by fandom. Which makes sense; the plot was needlessly byzantine and, as ever, there was a lot of c-list fodder happening, particularly with women, surprise surprise. I find it fairly mediocre standard crossover fare myself, but '01 was quite a while before ICk and Shamazons, so I don't know if that's just a calibration issue and maybe it was pretty bad for the time.

But I will say this for it: despite being, ostensibly, Superman's crossover (his badguys, mostly his book, his long-term plot threads), the impact on and contribution from Diana and her corner of the DCU was significant, which is something you don't usually see - major impact on Diana's obviously not unheard of, but contribution in proportion to that impact is much rarer and worthy of note and approbation - and it had one of the greater Wondy moments on record, which is what we'll be looking at today.

    

( Also, there's Darkseid. Did I mention that? )

Next time: The League is imperialist and Diana pretty much singlehandedly justifies every statement Clark or Bruce have ever made about hating magic.

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A controversial scene from Perez's Wonder Woman

2009-03-21T08:22:17Z

Posted by: ebailey140.insanejournal.com

We've talked a lot about the classic Perez run, it's beautiful storytelling, the dense plotting, the complexity, the rich characterization, and the many subjects it covered; including gender issues, war and peace, addiction, Battered Person Syndrome, sexual orientation, and teen suicide. All of these issues were handled with great care and sensitivity.

It's sometimes been said that Wonder Woman is actually more of an alien to our world than Superman. Clark was from another planet, and Diana is from Earth, but Clark was raised in modern America, in it's culture and with it's values. Diana was raised in a 3000 year old Pagan culture isolated from the rest of the world. And, well, 3000 year old Pagan cultures weren't what, in modern terms, is considered "Politically Correct." We've seen this, more recently, in how Diana doesn't have Clark's and Bruce's "no killing" rule.

Which brings us to a flashback sequence from Perez's run, drawn by Tom Grummett, that got them some angry letters. Anyone who was familiar with Sir James Frazer's or Joseph Campbell's studies of ancient cultures, their myths, and their rituals, understood, completely, as would anyone familiar with mid-90s Disney animated films.

What event marked the young Diana's coming of age? It wasn't a Bat Mitzvah.

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When Wondy was Awesome, part 9 (From Hell to Olympus)

2009-03-15T22:17:00Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

Time for another author switch! We've left WML behind with the 100-issue spectacular and the death of Artemis, and now Diana's out of the stupid black straptastic bra and out of Boston, and into the hands of John Byrne.

Byrne's run is... hard to pin down. The man wrote with an agenda; there were things he wanted to fix and things he wanted to change and that's what he did. And a lot of those things were good. He repaired most of the damage WML did toward the end of his run, both to Diana and, to some degree, to Polly. He built an actual Wonder Family out of Donna and Cassie and Artemis. He made a point of making Diana unique and ridiculously first-tier badass, firmly establishing how high she belonged in the DCU power hierarchy.

( Diana really attracts a lot of writers who do their own art, doesn't she? )

Next time: Diana teams up with Zauriel, has a romance with a guy who, miracle of miracles, is actually worth her time, and saves all of creation. And the art is wicked cool.

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When Dr. Psycho was... well, Psycho

2009-03-11T17:10:29Z

Posted by: ebailey140.insanejournal.com

Dr. Psycho was introduced in the Golden Age, and quickly became one of Wonder Woman's main foes. When George Perez revamped WW following Crisis of Infinite Earths, it was natural that he'd bring back, and revamp, Dr. Psycho, as he'd done with the Cheetah, Ares, the Silver Swan, and Circe.

Perez didn't rush into it, though. Dr. Psycho was re-introduced towards the end of Perez's run. But, as this was, really, a five year epic story, Dr. Psycho entered the stage when it was time for him to play his role.

And, that role would be nightmarish. Literally. This would establish him as one of the most twisted and evil of DC's villains. But, what's truly important is how Diana responds, how she deals with this threat. It's often said that heroes are, in part, defined by their villains. The villain represents what the hero must overcome in their struggles, what makes them heroes. Also, Diana, as she often does during Perez's run, demonstrates that she has other ways of dealing with evil than simply beating it up.

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Some more Model sheets - This time for the Amazing Amazon

2009-03-08T23:59:00Z

Posted by: icon_uk.insanejournal.com

Continuing my series of DC licensing images by the legend which is Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

These are all pre-Crisis reboot, but post the change from eagle-crest to double-W chest logo. So she still has the ridiculous heels, but that's life.
( Enjoy! )

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When Wondy was Awesome, part 4 (Patriarch's World)

2009-03-08T22:58:00Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

From as far back as Marston, Wonder Woman's defining short phrase, her version of "Caped Crusader" or "Man of Steel" or "Scarlet Speedster," has been "Amazon Princess." Which is fair, because that's what she is in the most literal sense - the daughter of the amazon queen (well at least until they dissolved the monarchy, but at this point I think I'm going to have to admit I've lost that one) - but for most of her pre-Crisis history, was nevertheless a relatively empty phrase. Diana was a princess because girls like princesses, as any Disney exec can tell you, and that was it. Occasionally the authority was useful, but basically it was a purely meta thing that was merely convenient shorthand for her specialness.

Part of Perez' genius was to actually consider what being a princess means for Diana, especially from the mythical perspective of this very mythical character. Mythic royalty isn't about tiaras and castles, after all. It's about stewardship, struggle, king sacrifice; about servitude and symbiosis and taking your people's burdens for your own. Diana, as Athena's champion and essentially a demigod, is an avatar of the Olympians, yes - but as heir to the throne, she's also the avatar of the amazons, and that responsibility is as integral to her character as her duty to her gods. She bleeds when her people bleed, they win when she wins, their story is hers and hers theirs. And Perez' run was saturated with that understanding, in a constant intertwining of Diana's mission and the activities of the Amazon Nation as a whole. She's not just one of them, she's not even just the best of them; she is them, full stop. That concept underpins the particular awesomeness I've got on offer today - this is the story of Themyscira and how the Amazon Nation reconnected with Man's World. Because Diana did, and so that Diana could. And because it's a damn good story.

Also, Diana v. Lois action. You know you want to see that.

( Man do I love that cover. )

Next time: Perez attempts to pre-empt strawfeminist portrayals of the Themyscirans with some strawfeminists of his own for Diana to oppose. And because he is Perez, they end up completely fascinating anyway.

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When Wondy was Awesome, part 3 (Chalk Drawings)

2009-03-07T20:55:00Z

Posted by: bluefall.insanejournal.com

This next is not actually a story about Diana herself, but rather a story about the people around her and the world she lives in. That's not uncommon in a general sense, but it's actually relatively rare with Diana - you just don't get stories about Themyscira or a day in the life of Philippus the way you get stories about Gotham or the investigative exploits of Lois Lane. So this, the story of tertiary cast member Lucy Spears, is a bit of a rare gem in that sense.

It's also a rare gem in many other senses, as you'll see once you click the cut.

( This was originally a Manly Tears Week entry. Just a warning. )

Next time: More trouble from the spawn of Ares, and men walk on Themysciran shores, which isn't the catastrophe it would have been pre-Crisis but still manages to spell more trouble than it initially seems worth.

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