Giganta has Loyal Friends

[shakalooloo]

Giganta returned to wearing her full body biker suit for her appearance in Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (physical edition numbering). She also returned to being the muscle working for an evil mastermind, not unlike her time on Villainy Inc. This time though, we find evidence that her colleagues care for her and her safety, and she's not just some disposable mook.

Also, Pelletier art! :D

Comments

[aperturedreams]

Why is Illyana Rasputin pretending to be Queen Bee

[shakalooloo]

Becuse the store had sold out of Cheetah costumes.

[remial]

PLEASE, Bee wishes she had HALF the style 'Yana has...

[john_drake1964]

Themiscyra - Come for the beauty, architecture and culture, and our megalodon shark tourism.

[cainofdreaming]

I think I need a little clarification here. Are we the tourists and there to see the megalodons? Or are the megalodons the tourists and we're the snack provided with the stayover?

[john_drake1964]

The first one.

Though one has to be careful not to become a snack of a megalodon.

[blues32]

That is NOT Queen Bee. She doesn't look a thing like her. She looks like someone who just took up the name but for some reason also can't see the color red. The woman doesn't even buzz! Queen Bee buzzes! And has stingers on her wrists, if I remember right. That and black hair.

...the Blue Snowman? Really? She's still a thing? Was Cheetah busy? Circe not up for it? I mean, it's not even a good armor design. What's the pipe for?

How are there that many megalodons in the area? Those things are massive and it doesn't look that deep.

[beyondthefringe]

Fun fact: as of recently, the Blue Snowman has come out as genderfluid/non-binary!
Which seems appropriate given their long history of adopting a male supervillain identity.

[julian]

Huh! In 2021, even. Thank you for the info.

I was wondering why I hadn't run into them before, but the answer is, Perez, Byrne, and Rucka never used them.

Should've.

[shakalooloo]

Diana even mentions Blue Snowman's "existence beyond binaries" in this very story (and how QB does not respect it).

However, in another story in the series, Blue Snowman is referred to by Diana and others as 'she' and 'her' constantly, showing that perhaps DC editorial hasn't managed to keep everyone informed and consistent.

[blues32]

Non-binary...but calls themselves the Blue SnowMAN? No one is forcing them to wear a suit that looks like a snowman. They can easily change the design to something...I don't know...threatening as well as gender neutral? Or maybe be a scary snowman! Put some sharp icicle teeth and claws on it!

[shakalooloo]

A brief look at Wikipedia dazzles me with the knowledge that there have been SIX different Queen Bees already in DC! Maybe this is a seventh?

[blues32]

I know, but not all of them were aliens incapable of seeing the color red.

[scorntx]

Noticing Queen Bee's got some Blue Beetle homages in her new look.
A visual tie-in, or aping Jaime's look in an attempt to be cool?
(... actually, come to think of it, is Jaime alright? Can't recall seeing him recently.)

Meanwhile, Giganta has the biker suit with leopard-skin printing. Compromise.

And guessing this week Diana cannot talk to animals.
Or at least can't talk to megalodons.
"I'd love to, but last time I tried, Arthur served me a C&D."

[mastermahan]

Jaime was in Jon Kent's replacement League in Dark Crisis. I have no idea how that went for him since I'm not reading it, but he's around.

[shakalooloo]

She CAN talk to megalodons, but needs an excuse to get Queen Bee to relinquish direct control of the amazons.

[lordultimus]

It's not a real Queen Bee unless she's rocking the beehive hairdo.

[blueprintstyles]

I need to see more of the Blue Snowman, they look charming.

[shakalooloo]

They do have a fight scene with Diana in this issue, as well as feature as the villain in an earlier issue of the series (which ALSO had a Mr Freeze story, so a little overloaded on ice-themed villains, maybe!).

[bradygirl_12]

The Blue Snowman? Cute! ☃️

[blues32]

Not really. Pretty sure they used to work with the Nazis back in the day.

[cainofdreaming]

Wasn't that Dr. Poison's schtick?

[shakalooloo]

Didn't almost every villain published during the Second World War work for the nazis at some point?

[blues32]

Not really. Most of the time the villains were more small time. The Fiddler, Shade, Psycho Pirate, Joker...none of them ever wanted to work with the Nazis. They just wanted to get rich.

[blues32]

Yep. So was pretending to be a man.

[donnblake]

Little confused by that last panel- have the villains just fallen to infighting on their own, or has Themysciran law sentenced them to gladiatorial combat?

[blues32]

I'm guessing the latter. Not sure what Dr. Poison is going to do. Hand to hand isn't exactly her style.

[shakalooloo]

"They will be punished in a manner [...] that is just to their crimes."

[donnblake]

Yeah, but, how does that work? Are they going to have to fight to the death- a little more bloodthirsty than the Amazons usually read as? Or just until they're good and sorry?

[shakalooloo]

Well, the plan the villains originally had was just to beat Diana into loving submission, so presumably the Amazons are just going to have them whale on each other until they get bored of it.

[jgraygaming]

I'm loving the callout to Steel wearing an unconscious Plastic Man to fool Queen Bee (who can't see the color red). I miss their friendship. They were a fun couple of "lateral thinkers".

[shakalooloo]

Where is Plastic Man now, anyway? Whatever became of him after The Terrifics ended? Has he been seen since?

[jgraygaming]

Gail Simone wrote a mini-series for Plas. It ran 6 issues and had Plastic Man working against a multi-universal conspiracy. I think that was the last time he was seen. Probably a good thing. Most writers don't seem capable of balancing the silliness, noir elements, and over-the-top power levels of Plastic Man.