Wonder Woman #10

[aeka]

And the most important message from Wondy is...









So. If Hades now loves himself, then wouldn't that mean Hell will become a much better place as a result?

Comments

[grimmbear]

While I'm not sure of the need to make Zeus her father, I do love the book right now. The blend of mythology and super heroics is good but the characterization of the gods is spot on.
I'm glad they are making Diana more than a Superman clone, it's so easy to write her as that.

[icon_uk]

That is one hideous outfit that Diana has on there, what IS that thing on her chest? It's like she made her bodice using origami.

If Hades now loves himself, then wouldn't that mean Hell will become a much better place as a result

Why? Self obsession isn't much good.

Besides, Hades doesn't look after Hell, he looks after the Underworld, which in Greek Myth includes both Heaven (The Elysian fields) and Hell (Tartarus).

Oh, and someone did love themselves more than Eros; Narcissus!

[perletwo]

Why is everybody all green? (Yes, I know, they're in the underworld, but still.)

[starwolf_oakley]

This reminds me of something Dr. Drew Pinsky once said about Narcissus. The thing most people don't "get" about Narcissus isn't that he fell in love with his own reflection, it's that Narcissus didn't recognize himself.

[long_silence]

Wait, I thought Eros was Ares' (or sometimes Hermes') son, but not Hephaestus.

[jeyl]

"It's true."

You're not.

[valismedsen]

I don't read this, but I gotta say the image of this child with candles lit over his head and molten wax dripping over his eyes is just awesome! And the fact that this is Hades makes it even more creepier. What a fantastic character design!

[tsunamiwombat]

I know "it's never just you" but i'm not the only one who thought of a million masturbation jokes after this right

[cypherfdp]

"I... I had hair under all that wax? Well that changes everything! I'm awesome!"

[crabby_lioness]

I love pre-Hellenic Greek mythology with a love that knows no bounds.

This version may actually be worse than Disney.

[jlbarnett]

I really dislike this book right now. I admit I dropped it a few issues ago but I just don't see anything really good about it.

The gods are weird variations of the characters that make no sense to me and I can think of no justification for.

And the women in this book. It's a wonder if a woman is portrayed positively.

Diana strikes me as pretty cold. I mean she's not really nasty but she's not as open as Diana should be.

The Amazons are flat evil, as was Strife.

The only thing I know about Zola is she's pregnant and she likes a certain type of guy.

Hera punishes the wrong people.

Persephone is apparently pretty dumb and possibly selfish. Her mother loved her so much she lets the world go to hell for half a year because she's absent. And she decides to try to escape the lord of the dead by killing herself? Unbelievable.

[shadowpsykie]

I am really loving this book. it's an interesting examination of mythology as a whole :D

[his_spiffynesss]

My take on the series has been they are trying to give this books something of that feel of the Proto-Vertigo books, but Arrazello just is not quite the writer for this job. He focuses so much on world building his mythology he doesn't spare any time on Diana. She's little more than a cipher standing in the middle of all of these Gods and their machinations.

[maxisanacorn]

I think it's implied Hades doesn't like himself at all. Not just love. He doesn't like himself. The image of him looking at himself in the mirror is pretty touching.

As one who was extremely skinny and then dealt with the social rejection after I became somewhat overweight at age 8-9, and shortly thereafter became 6 ft tall in 6th grade and kept the weight, I was a frequent target for ridicule. The idea that no-body likes you can be very persistent for people under certain circumstances. And what Wonder-Woman says here is very true.

I do like Hades boy character design with the wax and candles and his Spanish-ish conquistador armor. I guess post-love bullet judging by that art his face/hair will be now visible?

[eaglet_auditore]

Looks interesting. Looks interesting indeed.