Two pages from Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman #1

[icon_uk]

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

[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!

[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,....