Big news for our Amazon Princess

[abriel]

So not sure who hasn't heard by now but Wonder Woman is getting a Daddy and it is none other than the Big Kahuna of the Olympian pantheon himself.

I'm not totally sure how I feel about this.

On the one hand, it seems like a push to turn Diana into just a female version of Hercules. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the whole reason Hera has a hate on for her now is that she's one of Zeus's illegitimate kids and therefore she's now the target for the goddess of marriage's vengeance, just like with Herc.

The whole child of Zeus thing has been kind of done to death too. I mean I know the guy gets around but I don't know, it just seems overdone. I might have preferred for her father to be Hades or something (Ares would have been a little too creepy).

On the other I think that her having a dad will, I don't know, make her seem a little more grounded? The whole fatherless from clay bit always seemed to make her a little too Messiah-like, a little too Up There. Also I have faith that Azzarello will do good things with this and won't turn her into a whiny angsty teen with daddy issues.

I don't know. I'm mixed really. Thoughts?

Legality, cover for WW #5:




Insert Hentai/tentacle porn jokes in 3....2....

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

I think Zeus having a hand in the clay is possible--especially since the cover for #3 is a statue of Diana cracked to pieces. Azzarello's always been a bit hyperbolic in his description of things.

Plus, doesn't the clay origin typically use lightning to strike life into the mold? Making Zeus be the sole person might make more sense, since throwing lightning's kinda his shtick, and having it being one man strike the seed of life to create a child has a bit more narrative weight.

Yes, in this interpretation, the lightning would sorta be his penis.

[kenn_el]

Zeus and Hippolyta recreating the Swayze/Moore scene from 'Ghost' would be comic book magic!