Love is a battlefield (Wonder Woman)

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I was kind of excited by the idea of G. Willow Wilson on Wonder Woman when it was first announced. Every issue of her Ms. Marvel that I read contained at least one pearl of wisdom and Wonder Woman sounds like the ideal character for a book like that. I've been swithering on sticking with it as the bits that don't appeal (mythical creatures lost in our world) were given more time than either Diana or the bits that I really enjoyed (Gods lost in our world).

I'm going to post more on the the "new" Ares later on, because he's absolutely fascinating. The whole idea of "What if the god of war became the god of a "just" war?" makes him as interesting as "reformed Megatron".

However, Ares isn't the only god kicking around. Aphrodite and Nemesis have already made their presence felt and now Aphrodite's child Atlantiades turns up in Love is a Battlefield

Wonder Woman #69



Check out that lighting

"They" are Atlantiades (aka Hermafroditus) and their attack cherubs.
One of the Gods of Love called the Erotes, Atlantiades, more commonly called Hermaphroditus, 'are' the God of Androgyny and Unions, Lust and Desire, among several other things, in the Greek Pantheon of Gods. Hermaphroditus are the eldest child of Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love; she made them from her body, something not even Zeus could match, for her own pride, and Atlantiades grew resentful of their mother because of it

Wonder Woman #70
Atlantiades and Wonder Woman walk through Summer Grove where Diana is visited by a Steve Trevor who expresses his wish to have somebody who will grow old and saggy with him, instead of remaining a perfect goddess. She sends him away, into the arms of a woman from Summer Grove.
Then she does a bit of reflecting and recognises her own insecurities and decides that she and the real Steve Trevor should have had this talk a long time ago.
And Diana is still having one of the better days for a person in Summer Grove as Atlantiades hedonistic mission meets grim reality