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

[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

[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.

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