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Four scans from Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2.

So now Diana has herself a black ring, and fights Mera. Mera gets in a few good hits, but Diana's about to gut her:

Diana flies off and tries to remove the black ring to kill herself, but can't. Instead, she goes on a rampage around Themyscira, killing Cassie, BL-Donna, and Hippolyta, and then makes out with Batman. This increasingly odd turn of events is revealed to be:

That double-spread was damn hard to work with, because my scanner's not quite large enough, so I had to figure out how to stitch images together using ArcSoft Photostudio.

Nice scene, and I love seeing Aphrodite's Drew Johnson design again (the 'Diana Prince' thing is still annoying, but I suppose if that's how it's going to happen in the main title continuity should be observed).

Tags: char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, char: mera, creator: greg rucka, creator: nicola scott, event: blackest night

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Diana: not allowed to have a cool costume for very long.

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sailorlibra

I know, right? Gah, the black lantern costume looks even cooler under Nicola's pencil. I think I want to demand that Diana gets a more colorful version of it for her official costume.

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This just drives home the point: where the fuck are the empaths who could resolve this in time to catch Gossip Girl?

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Raven is the only DCU major empath that I know of, and I don't think she'd do much good. She'd be a cheese burger to the Black Lanterns more than anything.

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q99

The Star Sapphire costume looks worse in this one.

Is Diana the only person to resist the BL ring? A whole lot of people have tried to reach the BLs, but I can't remember a single one so much as pausing. Diana managed to make hers *retreat*, turn on BL Donna, then finally break it. Which is really awesome.

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pyrotwilight

I think it's because the ones who were changed at the end of 5 weren't quite the same Black Lantern wise as the ones who were dead and possessed by the rings. With them (Diana and groups) the rings probably just suppressed their souls or something.

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unicornicopia

Even NICOLA SCOTT couldn't make that outfit work.

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Sparles aside, how did she make the make out session look?

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.....makes out with batman?

:approves of this:

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sailorlibra

My original response to reading that was a hand-pump and a declaration of love towards Rucka. So yeah, I guess I also approve.

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toasty_fresh

Every time I see that costume, the urge to vomit grows stronger.

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I have an extra bag.. *passes*

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Aphrodite, Aphrodite, Aphrodite.... THE GODDESS OF LOVE!

And Diana and Bruce finally make out?

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sailorlibra

They've made out before. In JLA #74.

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thebigapricot

Eh, every time I see Diana in that Star Saphstripper outfit, I think it's one of the reason Johns wanted to do Blackest Night -- to get her in that outfit.

I went into this series with high expectations. And I am lowering them with each issue. Not that I didn't enjoy this but I am not as in love with it as I thought I would be. Rucka and WW together should have me ridiculously head over heels but it's not. And the liplock with Batman? Why? The push Mera is getting is out of hand. We get that she's a bad ass, but she is never ever going to be a challenge for Wonder Woman. Never. Hear me Johns? NEVER.

Also I was surprised to see that Nicola had help with pencils. The switch between Pansica and her is jarring. I thought she came off of Secret Six to do this?

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kingrockwell

Motto to all of this. Rucka Wondy shouldn't leave me so damn disappointed.
Though he has stated that this mini is more him serving the goals of Blackest Night, which makes me wonder how much of it is Johns-mandated.

And the Love thing just gets worse, because it's all about Aphrodite, which feels like further evidence of Johns' pre-Crisis fetish.

In summary, :( :( :(

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Makes out with Batman?

I might buy it just for this

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Belleh hole: check.
Huge collar: check.
Unusual color combination: check.

I therefore conclude that is a badly designed costume.

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bluejaybirdie

EEEEEEE RUCKA'S PANTHEON!!!!! Or a member of it, at any rate. I think I'll just go fangirl myself into unconsciousness now...

In other news, I am so glad to see Rucka written Diana again. Much though I love Gail, I really wish DC would put him back on Wonder Woman.

Also, Nicola Scott for Wonder Woman penciller, Y/Y?

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kingrockwell

Doesn't count. She'd be wearing sunglasses instead of that crown if it were.
Moreover, being that Aphrodite seems to be front and center in Diana's life due to the constant Violet, I suspect it's there to serve Johns' pre-Crisis fetish.

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I adore Wonder Woman's Black Lantern outfit, but I really, really hate her Wonder-Sapphire outfit. XD She can't win, can she?

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I can only buy this tomorrow.... someone post the make out scene!

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infinityandbeyond

Wouldn't that be over the 4 page limit then? Just wanting to keep the comm safe.

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Oooh, nice use of a patron goddess to tie into the emotioncolor. So, Di's association with ~~"wuv"~~ "love" is due to Aphrodite being her patron? So Geoff (who's presumably sketched this mess out) is trying to reinstate that Volume 1 idea?

Now I'm wondering if the abuse of Athena in Gail's run was part of an editorially mandated repudiation of the Rucka-after-Pérez run where Athena was Di's major patron, SO THAT DI COULD BE REATTACHED TO APHRODITE!

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Sick as the whole thing leaves me, Athena's appearance in the last issue of Wondy leaves me hoping that isn't the case.

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*cringes* Diana, please stop raiding Starfire's closet.
Other than that, the ring-crushing is pretty badass, and Nicola's Diana is gorgeous and actually Greek-looking. ^^

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I read that as "please stop reading Starfire's chest." I don't know why.

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infinityandbeyond

I like the story well enough, but considering my standards with Rucka with it comes to writing Diana, this fell short indeed. The "Diana Prince" detail makes me want to pull my hair out, and the liplock with Bruce doesn't make sense either. Why can't we just have a cool scene of her simply rejecting the BL ring through sheer willpower? It was much better in BL #6.

Nicola's art is A+ as usual. Except that stupid costume.

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Cause Blackest Night 6 came out first and it showed her getting a Star Sapphire ring to break the connection?

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Gads dammit. Someone should be FIRED for putting her in that hideous design of a costume. It's bad even for the Sapphires.

On the other hand, that BL one his soooo cool.

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kingrockwell

Sorry guys, but much as I love this page...

...Diana/Bruce shipping always leaves me cold.
Goddammit Rucka, you're better than this.

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You're right Rucka is better then this. Don't be a tease Rucka, prove you're the best Wonder Woman writer of our time and canonize the crap out of this ship.

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You and me both

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Re: You and me both

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Going to have to echo what everyone else here said, more or less. Diana's Sapphire costume is horrible. 90's horrible.

Something has seriously skewed in the DCU when the "good" version of a character wears -less- than the evil version. (BL WW still looks cooler, of course).

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I would argue it's 70s/80s horrible.

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makes out with Batman

Aphrodite, you shameless shipper.

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unicornicopia

I CAME BACK TO THIS POST AND DEAR GOD THAT OUTFIT HURTS ME.

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Nicola Scott's pencils make the Wonder Star Sapphire outfit more bearable but it's still atrocious (Well you can only do so much with that stripper Princess marshmallow design).

and then makes out with Batman.
*facepalm*

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autumn_lily

That outfit! My eyes! Augh! Although, Awesome Wondy is Awesome!

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What a bloody stupid costume.

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bluejaybirdie

Ahhhhh holy crap I just realized that they colored Diana's eyes grey! Hooray!

...yes, Bluefall has trained me well, why do you ask?

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