Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 - "Dated"

[laughing_tree]

For the 80th Anniversary Wonder Woman special, Doc Shaner and I got to tribute the Sekowsky/O’Neil Mod Diana run, which I unironically love. Well maybe a little ironically. -- Tom King

Comments

[shakalooloo]

Hmm, somehow this story seems to be more about Superman than Wonder Woman, what with him being the one 'learning' something.

Also: "Skuzzbuckets"? Add that to the list of things that I never expected to read Wonder Woman saying!

[bradygirl_12]

Mod Diana says things like that. *smh*

[lego_joker]

Teaching-Not-Learning is very fitting-in with Marston's Diana, though of course YMMV on how feminist that take really is to a modern perspective. On the one hand, "Diana needs men to teach her how to act" has pretty much never resulted in good stories, even when Paul Dini tried it, but on the other making women into walking lesson-dispensers has its own problems...

[shakalooloo]

To me, the fact that the story opens and closes on Clark, and Diana is someone he encounters during it, really sets him up as the focus rather than her. They could have had the same teaching moment in the middle if only it had opened with Diana ready to go on her date and being surprised to see that it was Clark.

[laughing_tree]

“To me, the fact that the story opens and closes on Clark”

Per scans daily rules about posting, these are only scenes from the story, not the whole story. (And you’re hardly the first person to do this, so I have to wonder, why do people forget this?)

[shakalooloo]

Well then, that's the impression I got from the presentation of this small selection from a larger tale. ;P

[deh_tommy]

I’m a bit confused. Maybe that makes more sense in the full story. What does she mean here by “You’re a cop”? Is she complimenting him? Insulting him? Both? Neither? Is that a term of endearment or a summation of his flaws? What?

[chalicother]

I am very biased, I will admit.

Though in my opinion based on the scans, it has to be a insult or a way to refer to his flaws.

I can't see a conversation about how your free person and then you refer to someone else as a cop....as any way of endearment.

[deh_tommy]

Man, what a jerk then. Clark’s been raised on Earth since he was a newborn, how is he a stranger?

[sadoeuphemist]

Diana has ... also been raised on Earth since she was born (sculpted?). People call each other strangers all the time and afaik we are all born on Earth.

[deh_tommy]

The point she’s making is she’s a stranger to Earth because she’s lived on an island for the formative years of her life completely, totally and intentionally isolated from the outside world. He’s a stranger because he was an alien who crash landed here. But isn’t Clark less of a “stranger” to man’s world then she is considering he’s been there since he was a little baby, raised by typical humans as one of their own, living under a typically human government in a typically human culture and has mingled with other typically human cultures for longer in his life than she has?

I must confess, I think in this case my judgement is being skewed by my dislike of Tom King’s stuff anyway and I’m just needlessly nitpicking.

[sadoeuphemist]

He's a stranger because he's from a conservative rural town now living in a big city in the middle of the hippy movement. She straight-up says the world is "new" and "young", it's obvious she's not talking about the literal Earth.

[deh_tommy]

Ah. Again, I’m sorry for letting my prejudices get the better of me.