Wonder Woman #07 rotting spoilers

[sherkahn]

I have to credit BleedingCool.com for this.


I've touched on the Batman spoilers today, but they start off with the revelations about Diana and her people. It's a new low for DCnU.
It's a doozy and may not sit well with most of you. Heck, the new S_D protocols may even be triggered.

Fair warning, SPOILERS AHOY.



Shouldn't we have a tag for "everything you thought you knew was wrong."?

From the article:

"Paradise Island, has always been portrayed as a preserve of women, with new generations emerging… in an non-specific fashion. Formed from clay, or girls lost at sea transported to the island. The new Wonder Woman does away with any such niceties. The women of Paradise Island now set off on the seas looking for other ships, for seamen… or rather, semen. They have sex with the sailors, and then kill them. The sex may have been consensual, but what happened after certainly issn’t. Later, those that have conceived children give birth, the female children staying, the male children… becoming hellish slaves of the infernal weaponry workshop."


"It’s a nightmarish vision made real by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, the harshness of the stories of the Gods now made flesh in a much less palatable way. And given light to the thought that somewhere, working at a lithe, forging a mighty sword, unaware of his lineage, is Wonder Woman’s brother…
"

I guess Donna is going to have a say about this other brother, and I am not too fond of this darker, seedy Paradise Island. It honestly sounds like a brothel/labor camp of the gods than an ideal community led by women, made of women, for the women.

Comments

[valtyr]

I don't think that's quite what their implication is? I mean - my interpretation of that was more like... like you'd say "Look, I may have said you could borrow the cat but nothing was said about you using it as a chimney brush."

When you definitely did say they could borrow the cat, the 'may' is just a figure of speech rather than throwing genuine doubt on whether you said it.

[greenmask]

Naw, I don't think that was the intended implication, it's just that once consentless sex has been brought to mind, it's hard to shake the spectre off.

"They had some good ol' sex, but then the Amazons killed them much to their displeasure"

Or even "They had some consensual sex but then some non-consensual MURDER"

I dunno, it just feels different. That the consent was the lighter part of that balancing sentence (may not have been rape, but it WAS MURDER!) felt wrong to me, you see?

I know that murder is terrible crime which nothing can surpass, but as a plot device it's..

Eh. I just found that an ugly sentence in amongst gloomy news. No biggie.

[valtyr]

It does seem a bit random to assure the reader the sex was consensual, I guess. No rape occurred here! Just murder and slavery. We're cool.