Two pages from Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman #1

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Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman came out last week, and consists of two stories, a pre-Nu52 story of Oracle calling in Wonder Woman to help sort out trouble in Gotham City when Batman is absent, and is a great story which I'll leave some.

The second story is by Amanda Deibert, with art from Cat Staggs, and features a fairly forgettable, but fun, confrontation between Wonder Woman and Circe (Who is doing her whole bestiamorphing magic thing, including turning some mounted police into centaurs) but the last two pages are really cute.

We see that someone has been watching the news footage of the battle on their tablet...





Now, whilst I appreciate that comics have a long way to go as regards female readers being accepted for liking male characters, it’s nice to see one moment suggesting that it’s okay for little boys to like female characters too (and that’s in the sense of admire/find them heroic rather than anything more prurient of course).

Plus, Aidan now has a fragment of the lasso of truth in his possession (it IS still the lasso of truth, right?) which is simultaneously awesome and terrifying.
 

Comments

[alschroeder3]

Isn't the lasso of truth unbreakable? Even Superman can't break her lasso, last I heard---or is this one of those mystical things where the owner can do things others can't, a la Thor lifting the hammer?

But very cool story, and the art looks excellent.

[sindra]

I always assumed she had complete control over it. It could be at strong and rigid as she wanted it, or she could make it loose and stretchy if it was ever used against her.

"It's my lasso....I can do whatever the #%*(&% I want with it, because I'm Wonder Woman."

=D

[sadoeuphemist]

Look at that dude's tiny arm in the final panel.

[thosefew]

Nope. In the stories it only breaks when the concept of truth is in danger. There was a Justice League story where Wonder Woman refused to accept a confession wrought from the lasso and it broke, causing mass devastation as anything ever believed to be true became true. (JLA #62-64)

It makes more sense if that rope she gave the boy is the equivalent of Dumbo's feather.

[beyondthefringe]

Because there's absolutely no way whatsoever that giving a teen or preteen boy part of the Lasso of Truth could ever end badly...

Well, I just thought of 67 ways in which this could go wrong, if that piece she gave him still compels people to tell the truth, and retains said power for more than one use.

:)

[zapbiffpow]

Wait, she gave the Lasso of Truth? Doesn't she need that for Wonder Womaning?

Still, nice to know the Pre-52 Earth is still around! I think it's Earth-33 or something now.

[philippos42]

That's a flimsy piece of rope, not the Lasso of Truth, unless the Lasso is really different in Nu52. Cute story, though, and that counts for a lot.

[naebler]

Its not really wonder woman, that is a woman cosplayer who gave the boy a piece of her costume as a way to reinforce his own confidence.

[icon_uk]

The fact it broke when confronted by a rejection of truth doesn't mean it can't be broken in other ways too.

[icon_uk]

The lasso itself is a broken off piece of Gaea's girdle wasn't it?

[q99]

The girdle reforged, I believe.

[q99]

This is a new property, but I do bet it's a her-only one.

[q99]

Just cut off one section of it. Since it can grow in length, not a problem!

[zapbiffpow]

Holy crap, she could make a fortune!

[q99]

I really wonder what the effects of 'able to cut off any number of bits of this endlessly extendable rope' would be.... first introduce lasso bits to courts, and then they become really wide spread!

[icon_uk]

The Brubaker run mentioned that since the lasso compels truth, and indeed the mere presence of Diana and her cosmic levels of ambient truth-iness tends to do the same, it violates the Fifth Amendment rule about not incriminating oneself.

[shadowpsykie]

i think she retains absolute control over it.

[shadowpsykie]

i think i am going with the idea that she retains absolute control over the lasso.

i actually would write a story where this piece of the lasso actually retains a portion of the power of the lasso. It compels people to tell the truth, but only if the holder's (said boy) heart is true and isn't trying to use it in any skeevy way.

now, if you will excuse me... someone is chopping up onions here...

I'm not crying YOU'RE CRYING!

[zapbiffpow]

Guys, let's talk small scale market here. We can leave the courts out of this: sell it to SO's, to parents, to prankster teenagers, to mob people wanting to uncover possible snitches...

Wow, I just turned a beloved superhero's weapon into Los Pollos Hermanos. Eh, probably wouldn't work anyway, given the 'endlessly extendable' provision, which I guess applies to the lasso bits as well.

[icon_uk]

Bear in mind the lasso works on WHOEVER is holding it, so if the kid were doing it for a skeevy reason, the lasso would make him confront the truth of his own actions as well as his targets.

Diana mentioned once that she wears the lasso against her hip so she is always in contact with it, so she is facing the truth of her own actions ALL THE TIME. No little white lies, none of those comfortable little lies we all tell ourself every day to get through from dawn to dusk without punching someone or breaking down sobbing, absolute awareness of the turth of your own actions!

[shadowpsykie]

ah yeah, i loved when they got that deep with it. i love the idea that not only is wonder woman incapable of living completely truthful life, she does it by choice.

so more hope for the kid. he might continue to live a completely authentic life. it's a terrifying, and odly liberating idea,....

[lego_joker]

Ed Brubaker wrote Wonder Woman?

(In all seriousness, I think it really says something when Brubaker's name has become so synonymous with Rucka's.)

[icon_uk]

No, you're right it was Rucka I was thinking of. And it's got nothing much to do with either writers reputation, I'm just completely crap with names, and there are enough letters in common for me to mix them up.

[q99]

Or alternatively, very big- give one to *everyone*. Anyone can call for a lie-check at any time...