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Wonder Woman (1987) #5
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iamrmanPlot and pencils by George Perez, script by Len Wein.
Diana and her friends do battle with Phobos and Deimos.
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Wonder Woman Agent of Peace #5
Jun. 1st, 2022 03:48 pmjanegrayWhat the heck. Even if it's just two pages, Steve needs more love.
Okay, so. The Steve/Diana ship. It gets A LOT of hate in Wondy Fandom.
If it were just a matter of people not liking it, it wouldn't bother me. To each their own, different strokes for different folks, etc etc.
What does annoy me are people going out of their way to dismiss it as "heteronormative tripe" because they insist that the only possible reason anybody might like a m/f pairing is to erase Diana's queerness.
Excuse me, but if you look at a ship where the woman is in charge and handles 98% of the fighting while the guy either plays support or gets taken hostage and she carries him bridal-style while he waxes poetry about her strength courage and power, and think "heteronormative," that's a you problem.
Anyway. Why do I like Steve and his romance with Diana? One word: devotion.
I love characters and stories about devotion. I love the trope where a character is completely unshakeably loyal to another and will follow them through hell and back. I love supportive love interests who may not even directly participate to the showdown, but are nevertheless essential because they are always there to offer the hero/ine a shoulder to lean on.
( ...Thanks, Batman. )
Okay, so. The Steve/Diana ship. It gets A LOT of hate in Wondy Fandom.
If it were just a matter of people not liking it, it wouldn't bother me. To each their own, different strokes for different folks, etc etc.
What does annoy me are people going out of their way to dismiss it as "heteronormative tripe" because they insist that the only possible reason anybody might like a m/f pairing is to erase Diana's queerness.
Excuse me, but if you look at a ship where the woman is in charge and handles 98% of the fighting while the guy either plays support or gets taken hostage and she carries him bridal-style while he waxes poetry about her strength courage and power, and think "heteronormative," that's a you problem.
Anyway. Why do I like Steve and his romance with Diana? One word: devotion.
I love characters and stories about devotion. I love the trope where a character is completely unshakeably loyal to another and will follow them through hell and back. I love supportive love interests who may not even directly participate to the showdown, but are nevertheless essential because they are always there to offer the hero/ine a shoulder to lean on.
( ...Thanks, Batman. )
Event Leviathan #1
Jun. 13th, 2019 10:29 amcyberghostface
“I knew going ahead that what I'll do is really structure the story around Alex's strengths and his shadows, and what it ended up being is something more along the lines of like an Agatha Christie novel or like Death Trap, starring DC heroes, where they're all in the room trying to figure out what happened. It's a whodunit, it's a thriller, and I bring that up because so many big miniseries have almost a disaster movie structure … in this one, we thought let's get a little more like Batman, let's get a little more detective. Detectives show up after something’s happened and try to figure it out.” -- Brian Michael Bendis
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