Rucka rides again some more.
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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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Date: 2010-01-06 07:53 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-06 08:04 pm (UTC):approves of this:
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Date: 2010-01-06 08:09 pm (UTC)And Diana and Bruce finally make out?
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Date: 2010-01-06 08:47 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-06 10:58 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-06 09:04 pm (UTC)I might buy it just for this
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Date: 2010-01-06 09:08 pm (UTC)Huge collar: check.
Unusual color combination: check.
I therefore conclude that is a badly designed costume.
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Date: 2010-01-06 09:18 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-06 11:01 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-06 10:28 pm (UTC)"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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Date: 2010-01-06 11:01 pm (UTC)Other than that, the ring-crushing is pretty badass, and Nicola's Diana is gorgeous and actually Greek-looking. ^^
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:04 pm (UTC)Nicola's art is A+ as usual. Except that stupid costume.
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:06 pm (UTC)On the other hand, that BL one his soooo cool.
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:08 pm (UTC)...Diana/Bruce shipping always leaves me cold.
Goddammit Rucka, you're better than this.
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Date: 2010-01-06 11:30 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-01-07 12:16 am (UTC)and then makes out with Batman.
*facepalm*
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Date: 2010-01-07 01:15 am (UTC)...yes, Bluefall has trained me well, why do you ask?
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