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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 )
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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Some GA/BC Wedding Album stuff...
Mar. 27th, 2010 10:45 pmbenicio127I 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
Mar. 16th, 2010 08:08 pm
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- char: alfred pennyworth,
- char: aqualad/tempest/garth,
- char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: beast boy/changeling/gar logan,
- char: big barda/barda free,
- char: black canary/dinah lance,
- char: blue beetle/ted kord,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: cyborg/vic stone,
- char: flash/kid flash/wally west,
- char: green arrow/connor hawke,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel,
- char: hippolyta of themyscira,
- char: kermit the frog,
- char: lex luthor,
- char: lian harper,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: mister miracle/scott free,
- char: poison ivy/pamela isley,
- char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr,
- char: raven/rachel roth,
- char: robin/damian wayne,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: robin/red hood/jason todd,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: speedy/arsenal/roy harper,
- char: spoiler/batgirl/robin/steph brown,
- char: starfire/koriand'r,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- medium: fanart,
- publisher: dc comics
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Wedding Bells
Jul. 29th, 2009 03:28 pmTags:
- char: achilles of thalarion,
- char: alkyone of themyscira,
- char: daredevil/matt murdock,
- char: hippolyta of themyscira,
- char: hulk/bruce banner,
- char: mr. fantastic/reed richards,
- char: philippus of themyscira,
- char: spiderman/peter parker,
- char: sub-mariner/namor mckenzie,
- char: the thing/ben grimm,
- creator: aaron lopresti,
- creator: gail simone,
- creator: joe ahearne,
- creator: mark millar,
- creator: stuart immonen,
- publisher: marvel comics,
- title: wonder woman
Hippolyta being bad ass
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sherkahn.insanejournal.comNew previews from Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian - part 8
I will skip my usual complaints and just Wonder about this image.
From IGN.
*edit* sorry it took me so long to fix the LJ cut
I will skip my usual complaints and just Wonder about this image.
From IGN.
*edit* sorry it took me so long to fix the LJ cut
More Wonder Woman Fanart
Jun. 23rd, 2009 03:37 am
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- char: amadeus cho,
- char: angle man/angelo bend,
- char: ares/dc,
- char: black bat/batgirl/cassandra cain,
- char: cheetah/barbara minerva,
- char: chuma,
- char: dr. cyber/cylvia cyber,
- char: egg fu/dr. chang tzu,
- char: etta candy,
- char: ferdinand,
- char: genocide,
- char: hercules/dc,
- char: hercules/marvel,
- char: hippolyta of themyscira,
- char: philippus of themyscira,
- char: ragdoll/peter merkel jr.,
- char: riddler/edward nigma,
- char: silver swan/vanessa kapatelis,
- char: white magician/thomas randolph,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- in-joke: bees. my god.,
- medium: fanart
Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story
May. 25th, 2009 09:03 amxdoop.insanejournal.com
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- char: adeline wilson,
- char: beast boy/changeling/gar logan,
- char: cyborg/vic stone,
- char: hippolyta of themyscira,
- char: jericho/joseph wilson,
- char: raven/rachel roth,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: starfire/koriand'r,
- char: terra/tara markov,
- char: terry long,
- char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- creator: george perez,
- creator: marv wolfman,
- group: teen titans,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: teen titans
Nubia Then and Now, I of II - Then
Apr. 3rd, 2009 04:36 pmbluefall.insanejournal.comThe 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.
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.
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.
bluefall.insanejournal.comBack 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.
Next time: The League is imperialist and Diana pretty much singlehandedly justifies every statement Clark or Bruce have ever made about hating magic.
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.
Next time: The League is imperialist and Diana pretty much singlehandedly justifies every statement Clark or Bruce have ever made about hating magic.
ebailey140.insanejournal.comWe'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.
( Read more... )
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.
( Read more... )
bluefall.insanejournal.comTime 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.
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
Mar. 11th, 2009 11:25 amebailey140.insanejournal.comDr. 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.
( Read more... )
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.
( Read more... )
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