Royal Justice

[stubbleupdate]

Before Greg Rucka, turn of the century Wonder Woman was...not bad, actually. In #162 and #163, Diana and Aquaman team up to solve a murder. Or rather, a lot of murders. Of children. So, if that isn't your thing, look away now.


The boat was full of Wonder Scouts, brought back after 50 years as part of Diana's new ambassadorship trying to bring peace to the world.
She asks Oracle for help (Did we always know that Oracle was Barbara Gordon? Can somebody post when the characters/the audience first found this out?)

Diana seeks advice from under the sea and meets Aquaman.




Black Manta did it, but on the orders of another. He sends Arthur and Diana to a location where they fight a big squid and meet... Triton!

I get the feeling that the scene needs this noise








This story was written by Ben Raab with pencils by Derec Aucoin and was published in 2000.

Comments

[icon_uk]

We knew Oracle was Barbara Gordon from about midway through Suicide Squad, though there had been clues and hints.

If that was autocorrect messing with you writing WW, i have no idea when that was,but imagine even Barbara would find it difficult to NOT tell Diana who she was, as Diana tends to make people tell the truth

[stubbleupdate]

I wrote we as in we.

[icon_uk]

Ah righty oh then! :)

Oracle first showed up in Suicide Squad #23 in 1989 as an anonymous hacker providing intel to the team. Merely text on a screen, so we didn't know who they were, or even what gender they might be.

Clues were dropped on occasion, like a single shot of Oracle's keyboard, with a Batgirl plushie sitting on the desk, but her true identity was only confirmed to readers (but not to Waller or the Squad) in Suicide Squad #38 in 1990.

And though WE knew who she was, even when she finally did meet Amanda Waller in person, she ensured that she had a foolproof alias set up and used the name Amy Beddoes. (Either Waller believed it, or respected her enough to not investigate further)

[rainspirit]

Whoa, Diana/Aquaman is a ship I've never encountered until now. o_o

[sanjuro]

You haven't seen/read Flashpoint?

[joetuss]

This piece of shit had the audacity to ride two dolphins like they were wakeboards

[mas]

Pretty sure there's that thing where no man can step foot on the island without bad things happening. Maybe he was just being careful?

[joetuss]

Yeah, but then how is he hugging Wonder Woman then? Is he still standing on them? I think the artist drew that because he thought it would look cool, but it really just makes Aquaman look like a jerk.