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.

[sadoeuphemist]

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

[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.

[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!