Jul. 23rd, 2013

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In the pantheon of comicbook characters, there are some that people can't stand even if other people seem to be big fans. In my case, there are probably three characters that I have an intense dislike of.

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I have problems with some parts of Azzarello and Chiang's take on Wonder Woman--the retconning of the origin, the change in the Amazons. OTOH, the gods are more recognizably the "true" Greek gods than anyone has done since Perez--and his take on the New Gods has been equally spot on.


I'm very ambivelent about the Superman/WW romance--two perfect people getting together has all the drama of Ken and Barbie (besides, sooner or later Clark's pacifist and nonmilitary background will cause a splitup with the daughter of a warrior queen brought up in a warrior society) but a warrior god, with tormented vulnerabilities and anger issues, who keeps calling her "legs"?


MUCH better. Orion and WW have MUCH more in common than an alien raised in Kansas.


Case in point...


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