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Wonder Woman Agent of Peace #5
Jun. 1st, 2022 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janegrayWhat 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. )
Suicide Squad: King Shark #9-10: Teatime
May. 6th, 2022 04:40 pmsuperboyprime
"I feel very Claremontian in the way I'm including characters and threads from my Nightwing and Suicide Squad runs in King Shark." - Tim Seeley
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Suicide Squad: King Shark #7-8: Defaced
Apr. 29th, 2022 07:55 pmsuperboyprime
"Superhero comics still the only place where a significant portion of the fans hate jokes, and I've got SUPERMAN V. LOBO and KING SHARK coming in the next month. Some motherfuckers always tryin' to ice-skate uphill." - Tim Seeley
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superboyprime
'It always rankles me that "fun," and "funny" tends to mean "not high art" in comics. Things don't have to be dead ass serious or boring to be quality shit. I mean, this is the story of a shark dude! If it's not fun, we fucked up.' - Tim Seeley
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superboyprime
"His dad is the god of sharks. I guess that makes him, basically, shark Jesus." - Tim Seeley
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superboyprime
"I do have a feeling that somewhere DC needed it to feel kind of James Gunn-y, and they're like, 'Well, Seeley writes fart jokes.' And so I got the call." - Tim Seeley
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Wonder Woman vs. Clayface by BKV
Jun. 3rd, 2017 09:32 pmstubbleupdateFollowing on from Wonder Woman v.2 #160 comes Wonder Woman v.2 #161. And then, after a fashion, comes Wonder Woman '77 #14, where Manhunter writer Marc Andreyko did a Clayface story set on Paradise Island.
When we left the scans in the previous post, Clayface had announced that he was going to take Diana's Clay and get Wonder Woman powers, in a fit of logic only matched by Absorbing Man trying to break into a museum to steal some moon rock. It worked, thanks to Comic Book Logic, and Clayface became super strong and could fly, but Diana wasn't destroyed, only left weaker and younger.
She retreated to nearby Titans Tower where she ran into Donna Troy, now her doppelganger. And so we continue...
( Clay time is over )
When we left the scans in the previous post, Clayface had announced that he was going to take Diana's Clay and get Wonder Woman powers, in a fit of logic only matched by Absorbing Man trying to break into a museum to steal some moon rock. It worked, thanks to Comic Book Logic, and Clayface became super strong and could fly, but Diana wasn't destroyed, only left weaker and younger.
She retreated to nearby Titans Tower where she ran into Donna Troy, now her doppelganger. And so we continue...
( Clay time is over )
BKV writes* Wonder Woman
Jun. 3rd, 2017 09:59 amstubbleupdate
*In 2017, that would be a relatively big deal. But in 2000, when Wonder Woman Vol.2 #160 was released, it was just a two part story in among a series of short one and two part stories by artists and writers whose name I don't really recognise, though art in this story is handled by Scott Kolins.This two parter is collected in the Batman: False Faces trade that has BKV's early work at DC writing Batman, Batvillains, and Wonder Woman. It's nothing amazing, but it does give a nice Wonder Woman story with an angle that seems obvious in hindsight.
I haven't read a lot of Wonder Woman, apart from some stuff around Infinite Crisis (over a decade ago. Gosh.), the Power Girl guest appearance, and bits of Sensation Comics until I ended up behind.
The story starts with Cheetah holding a car above her head and threatening that "If Wonder Woman doesn't show up in the next five minutes...I will kill every last one of you".
Two cops are watching and ready to run out from behind cover to engage Cheetah when Wonder Woman descends from the sky and says "I was hoping I could end this peacefully"
( Wonder Woman vs. Cheetah? )
Blue Beetle - Rebirth
Sep. 5th, 2016 12:52 amicon_uk
I must confess that the New 52 Blue Beetle did nothing for me. It took some of the elements of the original Jaime Reyes and rebooted it in a very (IMHO) cack-handed fashion, missing the point of the concept. It might have improved after the first coupleof issues, but since I dropped it at that point with no regrets I can't say.
So I was rather cautious about the Rebirth launch, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
( Bring Blue Betle )
