The Best of Wonder Woman

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We get a bit of lampshading of Amazons Attack's BEES.

Picoult's run clashed so horribly with Amazons Attack. It was like this almost romantic comedy type of thing while AA was this awful edgy bullshit fest.

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This courting ritual was detailed in Perez's run IIRC. Or at least somewhere before this. Simone doing her research.

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I also commend Simone for not just throwing all of the plot threads from the previous run in the garbage. Whether it's because she liked that run or didn't want to take a dump on something that was fairly highly praised at the time, I don't know.

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What did she mean by this?

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I can remember back at the time how much praise Who is Wonder Woman, Picoult's run, and Pfeifer's one-shot Gimme Shelter got, and years later I was excited to finally read them. And then Who is Wonder Woman and Gimme Shelter were complete ass.

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Back in the early issues of Perez's run, during the forced Invasion crossover Diana accidentally some Khunds, and it's pretty odd that a mandatory crossover issue would have some important character moments like that.

>>91897461

Tom Tresser was such a weird romantic interest. I mean, Nemesis? But i like his characterization. He was kinda like a nicer Batman.

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>>91897589
Personally I'm not a fan of him at all, but I think the choice was meant to be a replacement for Steve who was close to Steve's characterization in the 70's TV show.

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Because Steve was made kind of, well, old post-Crisis.

>>91897700

That will aways fire my noggins.

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>a woman's amusements are sometimes inexplicable
Lol.

Also I think I kind of like the element Gail introduced of Diana somewhat enjoying combat on some level. It makes her a little more deep and helps make sense of her... more OOC moments in other comics.

>>91897749

>and helps make sense of her... more OOC moments in other comics.

Come on, Texas. Don't go start making me hate you.

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>>91897791
Whaddya mean, fella?

>>91897803

Nothing can excuse Betty Bonkers Diana.

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>>91897821
It doesn't excuse it, just makes it a bit easier to stomach.

By this point in her history Wonder Woman's shitty portrayals in other peoples' comics had become a bit of a problem, I just think this was Simone trying to address that, especially since back then continuity between all the titles in a universe was considered pretty important.

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>>91897821
Still the writers of those bad versions are still totally at fault and will be first against the wall when the Wonder Woman revolution occurs.

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Cats don't seem to understand that shredding my legs with their claws is not a sign of affection.

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>>91897889
>hive of warrior bees
Gail is being cheeky.

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>>91897922
Some folks think the things the Khunds are saying would be appropriate coming out of Diana's mouth, sadly.

>>91897869
>>91897889

Well, if we're talking about the main line comics i don't think she suffered that much from bad writing. The only bad thing really was the whole Max Lord shenanigan. The ones to really suffer where the other amazons with Lyta being a huge cunt and things like Amazons Attack.

In terms of Di characterization New 52 was a lot worse in that regard.

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>>91897971
That's what I was meaning to say. Outside of her own comic you had a lot of writers who clearly never read her comics and were drawing from things they had read like Kingdom Come instead.

>>91897378
>conversion by Wildstorm

newfag here, was this a scanning group?

>>91897997

>Kingdom Come

Goddamn, this will always be a blight for the character.

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>>91898013
Yeah, I believe it refers to ripping the digital versions to CBR format.

I find it kind of disgusting when scanner groups feel the need to stamp their names all over the creative works of others, but they do at least provide a valuable service.

>>91897997

>Outside of her own comic you had a lot of writers who clearly never read her comics and were drawing from things they had read like Kingdom Come instead.

Which comics? You mean Elseworlds or things from main line like Justice League of America also?

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>>91898057
Stuff at the time like Justice League of America, yes. Specifically I mean crossovers and events. She'll usually show up and do nothing, or she'll show up with a sword so they can have scenes of her fighting things. Rarely are her actual skills used.

An opposite example is Kelly's JLA, where her abilities of diplomacy and especially her lasso were always important to the team.

>>91897869
>Khund's honor people by sending people to beat their asses
>Diana has Khund fangirls

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I can't think of a lot of specific examples outside events like Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis, but pretty much every long-running series from the 00's would eventually have a Wondie cameo issue, just like with Batman and Superman, and most of the time it would range from lame to awful.

>>91898135

Whenever i see Hephasteus' magical sword that can split atoms being referenced i froth at the mouth.

>>91898192

The main problem is the whole "trinity" concept. Whenever the trinity show up in a cross-over or event they tried to show WW as the bad cop, since Superman's already playing the good cop. In case you're wondering Batman usually play the role of the police chief that bark orders.

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Just a cursory look in my library of things that had bad Wondie crossovers or appearances: Waid's Flash, Winick's Green Arrow, Johns' Booster Gold, Justice League of America, Pfiefer's Catwoman, Johns' Action Comics, Countdown, and most famously All-Star Batman and Robin.

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>>91898252
Very good observation.

>>91898273

>Justice League of America

Meltzer or McDuffie?

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>>91898324
Meltzer actually strangely enough did a decent job. McDuffie and Burnett's stuff is what I mean. Wonder Woman notably had some bad characterization in the JLU cartoon, but McDuffie usually wrote her pretty well, so I'm disappointed in his JLA run, but that had a lot more problems than Wondie.

Also McDuffie wrote perhaps JLU's single best depiction of Diana in the episode Ultimatum, where ironically she was basically a supporting character.

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It was so good that when I was watching it I thought "this must be one of those ones by Simone", but then I looked it up and it was McDuffie.

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JM Dematteis, as much as I love the guy, just cannot write Wonder Woman.

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>>91898400
This line reminds me of a shitty line from Picoult's run where Diana says she believes in morality and she fights on the side of good, and Circe "gets" her by saying some edgy shit about the definition of good changing over time, and Diana just stands there dumbfounded.

>>91898400

>McDuffie

Yeah. His JLoA run was a pretty big disappointment. Specially thanks to all the hype from his good material from the JL/JLU.

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Good doesn't change, you dumbo. What's accepted by society does, laws do, but at the end of the day, "good" means peace and fairness, which is what Wonder Woman is all about.

Most embarrassingly Circe says something like "in this country it was once considered good to own men as slaves!". Like no it fucking wasn't, it was just legal. Even slaveowners just felt it was justified, not "good", though I guess some told themselves it was OK because the slaves got some kind of job security or something out of it.

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>>91898453
Wait till you see the other covers in this run.

>>91898421

I found his take on her in JL3000/JL3001 a self-aware parody of her terrible characterization, even if it indulge in it.

But yeah in everything else he wrote her as this blase girl with the bitch face that drive all the other women crazy for being popular or because of her closeness to Superman. Or everyone else because of her perpetual stick up the ass.

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>>91898568
That's definitely what I got from 3000, or at least was supposed to be an extreme exaggeration.

I did like in that early JLI crossover when Beetle was hitting on her, she didn't go "UGH men amirite ladies" like a lot of writers would do, she actually thanked him for the compliments.

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And Fire was getting all pissed and jealous about that.

Christ, I love JLI.

>>91898531
There can be some meta-commentary in this thread about this fangirl who seems to only know Diana as the great destroyer through MTV and war stories

>>91897256
Hey Tex, I'd just like to say thanks; these storytimes are often the only legit thing on /co/, and probably the only reason I'm still on here.

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>>91898702
Good point, wasn't even thinking of that.

>>91897589
Who even had USED Nemesis in years?

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>>91898703
Thanks, that means a lot. I love the discussion in here.

>>91898609
>>91898645
wow. I never thought I'd see a wonder woman in space/Green Lantern crossover.
Its surprisingly awesome. We need more earth-based heros taking a tour around the cosmos with a GL

Hey Tex.

Been meaning to ask, what are your thoughts on Amazons being drawn with muscles? Yay or nay?

>>91897869
>>91897889
Kho is cute. CUTE!

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>>91898741
Check out the beginning of Bill Messner-Loeb's run, no GLs but Diana becomes a straight-up space pirate.

>>91898775
HA! Space-Pirate Woman, that sounds amazing

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>>91898761
I like them to be varied. Like Io in Rucka's run is buff af. Obviously no Amazons are gonna be doughy, but some should be skinny, some should be relatively THICC, etc. Makes them more like people.

As for Diana, I like how she is in this run, and of course Perez. She's fit and toned but not to bodybuilder or UFC fighter levels. She's meant to be kind of the ideal of traditional feminine beauty, in the same way I think Superman is supposed to be kind of the perfect beefcake.

Making her too muscular is, to me, kind of like making Superman ottermode or like Dick Grayson/Hal Jordan.

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Like, Cho's art? Love it. But it's too much for Diana.

This is just me and obviously it's something that everyone has a different idea of, both hardcore Wondie fans and non-fans.

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I love personalized Lantern costumes.

Uniforms make more sense, I guess, though.

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Imagine how many new readers we'd get if this was the OP image.

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I remember a long, long, LONG time ago someone storytimed this issue and I really loved it.

I think that was even before the New 52, or possibly right after it.

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There's an old joke among Wonder Woman fans that Diana just forgot she had a lasso throughout all of Amazons Attack, because if she had just used it on Hippolyta at the start, the whole plot would have been averted.

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I find Simone to be really good at mixing action with peaceful approaches with Diana. Probably why she's also really good with Hawk and Dove.

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;_; doggos

>>91898885
I actually dig Cho's look for Diana because he actually has a good grasp of how muscles work and look when on curvier women, and when he draws them exerting themselves you can see him illustrating physical strain in the arms, legs, and back muscules.
Hell, he's one of the only artists that even remembers women HAVE back muscles it seems like.

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YES!

Diana + classic heroes is so good

>>91899037
Where or When is Diana right now?

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>>91899068
Cho is an amazing artist. I'm still confused on why /co/ never bothered with Totally Awesome Hulk when we're all so high on Cho all the time.

>>91899069
Oh, this is that thread that Simone continued in Secret Six

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>>91899078
It shall be explained soon.

>>91899069
The question must be, is Grendel based on the original legend, or the Novel from his PoV?

>>91898013
>>91898055
Uhhh, this is the real WildStorm who did these conversions to digital format, as in the ex-Image DC imprint, not some sort of shitty scanning group

>>91899069
Wow, that's like....CLASSIC Beowulf too, back from the late 70's I think it was.
"Abanan afo Beowulf", Beowulf.

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>>91899096
Yes, which we will also see later in the BOP crossover arc.

>>91899111
Oh, seriously? Didn't know that, thank you.

>>91898935
Anyone else getting a Skartaris vibe here?

>>91899011
This is probably me pulling bullshit out of my ass, but I think that's part of why the sword and shield are starting to overshadow the lasso. The Lasso is meant to be a non-lethal weapon, fitting for a warrior-diplomat. But that doesn't quite fit with the Xena knockoff shit that hack writers want, so she uses her signature items less and less because they're not "badass" enough.

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>>91899137
100% correct. I wish in Injustice she was more a "grappler" character (I think that's what it's called?) that used the lasso instead of shield banging like she's out of 300.

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Etta makes me so goddamn happy in this run.

>>91899137
>Anyone else getting a Skartaris vibe here?

You should, because there's a correlation.
DC's Beowulf was one of it's answers to Marvel's then-ridiculously successful Conan the Barbarian series (one of the best comic books ever imho). DC tried several, including Claw the Unconquered and Beowulf, but eventually Mike Grell's Warlord series took off and was the most successful out of all of them.

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>>91899210
Good post, I've never gotten too into the DC Sword and Sorcery stuff but I do love Marvel's Conan.

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>mindbreak
As usual, we can't escape the /d/

>>91899090
>>91899100
>Diana in a snappy business suit
sweating man.jpg

>>91899111
That is good to hear. I always thought it odd that "wildstorm" would be on some of these issues, but I guess that makes sense if they were being outsourced to digitize books

>>91899137
>But that doesn't quite fit with the Xena knockoff shit that hack writers want, so she uses her signature items less and less because they're not "badass" enough.

Part of the problem is that if she flies and punches people only then aside from the lasso she's visually just Superman but with even LESS power options, so in a fighting game giving her others makes a bit of sense.
>>91899169
Making her a Grappler would be cool, but the Netherrealm Studios Mortal Kombat engine mechanics are fucking horseshit for it; the entire gameplay relies on chaining together fast-paced staggered combos and specials.

>>91899248
I think you'd like Warlord.

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>>91899275
I remember reading that Malibu was originally theorized to have been bought by Marvel solely for their coloring department. Maybe this is somewhat similar but obviously DC also valued their IPs.

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>>91899292
No joke, bought the hardcover collection when I found it at a comic shop last time I was in NYC. It's just been on my shelf since then.

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Also I'm a massive, massive fan of Simonson Thor

>>91899137
Real talk, I think that the Skartaris arc of Secret Six is my least favourite (because I lack the knowledge of the setting), but it does have some good costume changes. Sword and Sandals stuff just is not for me

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I haven't read the original Beowulf OR Grendel since high school. But I loved it so much back then that I bought a copy of the complete Beowulf text because our schoolbook only contained like maybe 20% of it.

I even got hyped for that shitty movie!

>>91899315
To be honest, the thing is basically just an elaborate fantasy self-insert by Mike Grell (seriously, I've met the man and he looks a LOT like his Oliver Queen), but it's done relatively well nonetheless and there's a significant amount of evidence that Conan himself was one for Robert E. Howard and even guys like Dream of the Endless was sort of one for his creator too.

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Damn girl!

>>91899324
>Beowulf fighting the Dragon before Grendel

This some comic shit? Because I'm pretty sure the Dragon was the last thing Beowulf ever fought. Being, you know, dead afterwards.

>>91899328
Skartoris isn't complex.
It's a Hollow Earth dealio thing with weird passage of time and fluctuating internal geography and EVERYONE dresses like a stripper (regardless of gender) and the women are all smoking hot.

Also, no day or night cycle; it's constantly mid-afternoon there.

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>>91899358
That's really how I've always seen Conan. It kind of nauseated me at first because of the covers of ultra muscular blood coated Conan draped by naked big titty girls. But over time I gained a reverence for the genre and the excess of it from reading stuff like Red Sonja, and I picked up a Conan collection and finally kind of "got" it.

>>91899358
Hey now, I've met Neil Gaiman, and he's way nicer than Dream.

>>91897354
What are the odds of the WW movie being good enough to.be on the recommend list?

I'm still optimistic.

>>91899415
Conan is absolute proof that no matter how shit a concept is, if you execute it well it can be amazing.
>>91899419
I've done that too, and yes he is.
But the physical resemblence is there, especially in the facial features.

And taste in clothing color choices.

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>>91899409
Hm, the order got all jumbled in my head, but I guess it doesn't make sense any other way since he was only king after he rekt Grendel.

He did brag a lot at the beginning, maybe he mentioned other dragons or something? in the shitty movie there was a dumb flashback of him killing giant sea monster things.

>>91897378
>>91897391

SO close to being LOSS.
If only I had editing skills.

>>91899446
It's not like anyone will ever update that chart. /co/ recs are dead, tumblr included.

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Musclefags incoming

>>91899472
I added Earth One and True Amazon to it

>>91899413
I won't lie, I was vaguely amused that Catman looked exactly like He-Man, and that Scandal was only slightly wearing less clothes than usual (she spent quite a bit of that run in her underwear)

>>91899328
That's completely fair. I'm much more of an urban fantasy guy myself. High fantasy can be fine when the mood strikes, but sword and sandal always seems way too, barren, for lack of a better word.

Speaking of high fantasy, it's really weird there's never been a Wondy/Amethyst team up. Amy is even a Diana fan girl!

>>91899446
Slim at best, what with the atrocious in-house issues Warner Brother's filmmaking division has.
>>91899463
The sea monster thing actually IS a part of the actual story; when he is questioned why he is so great if he lost to Brekka, he says that he lost because to save Brekka (whom he respected) he had to slay a sea monster that attacked them on the swimming constest.
And then he gives the awesome deadpan comeback of;

>"I have heard no such tales of your bravery."

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>>91899446
I don't wanna see it because I know I won't be able to enjoy it because of my closeness to the character, but I have some hope for it not portraying the character all wrong because I know for a fact the director gets the loving side of Diana, and the writer wrote the shitty Who is Wonder Woman so at least has some appreciation for her not being a warrior bitch.

But BvS and the still images I've seen and that first trailer look like there's a focus on combat, which I'm sure WB is pushing because gurl pwr power fantasy movies are hip right now.

>>91899505
>Speaking of high fantasy, it's really weird there's never been a Wondy/Amethyst team up. Amy is even a Diana fan girl!

Now I kinda want to see them both do some weird Sailor Moon dual-transformation sequence at the same time.

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Also I'm sure regardless of how the movie is there'll be endless shitposting here because that old "It has been 0 days since DC did something stupid" mentality seems to have moved over to movies now.

>>91899553
Commander Steel?
Damn, was Simone reading a bunch of 80's Ostrander comics at the time or something when she wrote this?
Should I wait for a King Faraday to show up now?

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Etta is an honorary Amazon, buddy

>>91899592
Actually he was introduced by Picoult

I think Faraday DID in fact show up during that, though my memory of it is sketchy

>>91899413
Like I always say, ic you insist on being a perv, at least be fair about it. Skartaris sexualizes and objectifies everyone in equal measure, so it's all good.

>>91899568
>"It has been 0 days since DC did something stupid"
Fucking Outhousers reset the clock again because a team of men writing diverse books under a new line is "DC doing something stupid."

The last time they reset the clock was with that Legend of Wonder Woman firing, which they never updated when more details came out about it

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>>91899611
>before we get Amazons Attack, the sequel
Gail being cheeky

>>91899592
Faraday did show up through Checkmate during the Suicide Squad/S6 Blackest Night stuff, which would be about a year from now

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>>91899614
Outsiders can go to the outhouse and stay there.

Also I saw an older article ranting about how Wonder Woman Rebirth was a "failure" before it even came out because Rucka and Sharp were men.

Then, hilariously, at the very VERY bottom of the article was "Update: it has been confirmed that Nicola Scott will be doing art on even numbered issues" with no more commentary on this.

>>91899568
The current status quo seems to be thusly;
Marvel films are a mix of tolerable or reasonably entertaining, but their comics and any materials outside of their films are atrocious, while DC has huge problems with it's films but a lot of their related merchandise and comics aren't half bad anymore and are even great sometimes.

It's even for inverse reasons behind the scenes too.

>>91899557
All of my money.

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It's kind of funny how Cain has all these various cults in the DCU, and then you read House of Mystery and he's just this smarmy little ugly bastard essentially a comedy duo with Abel.

>>91899611
https://youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY?t=61

>>91899611
>Actually he was introduced by Picoult
I'm aware, but Ostrander LOVED his espionage books. They even had their own crossover.
>>91899612
It's why I like the New Teen Titans; there's plenty of T&A, but an equal amount of steaming hot Dick.
>>91899642
Come to think of it, Simone's favorite character DID show up in her modern form in Ostrander's Suicide Squad and she WAS writing a pseudo-Squad book with Secret Six....

>>91899690
When he isn't Vandal Savage, anyway.

>>91899690
Give him credit, he also hangs out with Dream.
Also, I think they once insinuated that the "Cain" everyone thinks is the biblical Cain is actually Vandal Savage, which makes a GREAT deal more sense.

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Demons are fair game for slaying. Unwritten rule of fiction.

>>91899611
>Simone desperately trying to salvage something, ANYTHING from Amazons Attack
Oh, Gail honey... No. Just, no.

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>>91899739
>>91899757
Good point, now that I think about it House of Mystery Cain is probably just a dude in the Dreaming.

>>91899760
Even in comics.
As a general rule, the less humanoid something is the more okay it is to break the Heroes Don't Kill thing I've noticed.

Only one superhero setting really managed to make sense of that thing, and I kinda wish more would do what it did.

>>91899779
I loved how Simone's Secret Six were hanging OUT in the House of Mystery.
Or, wait, was it the House of Secrets they were in? I always get those two confused.

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>>91899722
NTT is great with the two hottest people to ever appear in a DC comic, Starfire and Nightwing, being drawn by the man who drew sexier people than anyone who ever drew a DC comic, George Perez.

IMO THE best art of Dick

>>91899829
Wait. What?
Was THAT where that magic house nobody could find came from?

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>>91899829
They were in Secrets, which I only know because I just read it a few weeks ago

>>91899653
>Also I saw an older article ranting about how Wonder Woman Rebirth was a "failure" before it even came out because Rucka and Sharp were men.
I suppose they forgot about the part where Rucka is a notorious Wondy fanboy rivaling Jimenez, yeah? Convenient.

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>>91899871
Yep and probably the only third/fourth-wave feminist to write Wonder Woman's ongoing.

But kind of like when people were saying DCU Rebirth Wally and Barry's crotches not smushing was "homophobic" despite being drawn by an actual gay man, you can't expect people to do their research.

What should I read before The Circle and Ends of the Earth? I grabbed them awhile ago because Simone's run was getting praised but at the start Diana is moonlighting as a secret agent who looks like Lana from Archer and clearly I need to read more Wonder Woman.

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>>91899866
>not eating Taco Whiz
Missed opportunity.

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>>91897256
Thanks, I love Wondy!

>>91899849
I STILL think the funniest thing DC could ever do is a limited run comic called "Tits and Ass" starring Power Girl and Nightwing and just play up on the joke.
>>91899864
Yeeep.
Technically the reason the Secret Six were so well hidden is that they were half in half out of the Dreaming.
It's little stuff like that that reminds you that for all of Simone's hipster new comics trends (character-focused stories with a relatively incoherent plot accompanying them, dialogue-focused stories, waaay too preachy sometimes, lots of Donut Steels, etc), she actually got her "education" on comics in classic stuff that most modern readers aren't even familiar with anymore.

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>>91899937
Simone was continuing from Who is Wonder Woman and Love & Murder, the latter of which is divisive at best and the former of which is a dumpster fire.

You actually don't need to read either of those at all, because all that happens is some literal deus ex machina from Athena makes it so Wonder Woman has a secret identity that she can transform into by spinning, she doesn't have powers while in that identity, she works for generic spy agency and is trying to bang a guy named Tom Tresser.

It's supposed to be a modernization of the 70's show, I guess.

But anyway that's all you need to know really. From there you can just jump in.

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You know, most of all this makes me want to read Demon Knights again.

>>91900042
DC's Beowulf actually would've been a good add to that cast, though perhaps he's not quite dysfunctional enough to fit in with them as he's basically a Conan.

>>91900068
Wait, now she's fighting Claw the Unconquered?
Simone really knows her shit when it comes to classic comics I guess.

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>>91900071
They had Savage as the Big Guy For You, even though Beowulf would be way more serious.

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>>91900089
If my spirit animal weren't already Jimenez, it would be Simone.

>>91899864
>>91899969
Yep, Abel lived in it when he was the host of the supernatural story anthology "House of Secrets." Gaiman made it into a place that also exists in the Dreaming,

It's also why Scandal had those weird partly-demonic-but-mostly-useless minions, and the magical defences (the gargoyle)

I have a torrent of House of Mystery that actually just died today. Time to look for another source

OK Texas, I had a briefing with anon, he told me Wonder Woman was gonna install herself into a sexy robot body
I was like sweet yes
so yeah i had a brief mess in my pants
it was like jiiiiiZZZZzZZZzzz
Do you honestly think I'd be able to keep quiet about it? I feel like some sorta sex-possessed tentacle monster onboard

>>91899929
>But kind of like when people were saying DCU Rebirth Wally and Barry's crotches not smushing was "homophobic" despite being drawn by an actual gay man, you can't expect people to do their research.
But, Barry and Wally are surrogate father and son. Having their dicks touch would be really inappropriate.

Like, I don't read the Flash books, and even I know that. Ew, y'all niggas nasty.

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>>91900102
I most likely have it, lemme see

>>91900091
And now she has Claws claw. Heh.

>>91900091
Savage was hilarious in that series.
It really kind of illustrated what a looser he is in one sense when he's been fighting and conquering for eons but he never really gets credit or accomplishes anything by doing so because he still thinks like a fuckin' Neanderthal.

BRB coffee

>>91900102
It's gonna take approximately ten billion years to upload but for future purposes
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mqiouywtlb153p3/AAAhgQF-smgymyr7HBDu_cJja?dl=0
That should work for perpetuity.

>>91899779

Yeah I always assumed they were just named Cain and Abel as a joke

i totally forgot Secret 6 HQed in House of Mystery.

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DARK DIANA

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>Injustice.jpg

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>Bring me my concubines
>How many, my Queen?
>Several

>>91900427
Oh boy, straight off the presses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73IkjslvoM&feature=share

"Wonder Woman - A Symbol of Progress" by KaptainKristian

(I haven't watched it yet)

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>>91900496
>Spirit of Truth art
And here we go.gif

>>91900496
TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>91900364
>>91900383
>>91900400
I'm honestly surprised there isn't an elseworlds that's basically just this.

Though I am slightly ashamed to admit I've had a fanfic idea that's similar. Think this, but filtered through the movie Iron Sky. Yeah.

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>>91900533
Instead of Nazi tech would it be like Amazon shit like in Amazons Attack?

And most importantly, will there be a Purple Death Ray?

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Is Tarzan public domain yet?

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>>91900601
Fun fact: Amazons actually don't need to use the restroom

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>>91900628
>And my brain is put in a...!
>Pauper's grave

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Typical white male, thinking all gorillas look the same.

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Best costume arrives

>>91900687
Shut the fuck up already, Jesus fucking Christ.

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The Amazons destroyed the Washington memorial during their attack because they thought it looked like a penis.

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Looking a bit ahegao

>>91900568
>Instead of Nazi tech would it be like Amazon shit like in Amazons Attack?
Both-ish. Basically, the idea was that Paula von Gunther, after being redeemed at the end of WWII, became a highly influential figure in Amazon culture, inspiring others to adopt a more militarized society. The twist was that the Amazons never changed their core ideals of spreading their message of peace and love, it's just that now, they had aims to be more proactive about it, employing force if necessary. We start with the typical origin rehashing, but with Diana explicitly being the Amazons' ace-in-the-hole super soldier. Steve crashes on the island, encourages those niggling thoughts of doubt she has about this whole forcing people to get along thing, yada yada.

>And most importantly, will there be a Purple Death Ray?
No. I dropped the concept before I got there, cause I realized it was kind of fucking stupid. I did get as far as a fleet of invisible airships though.

>>91900843
SHUT
UP

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>>91900861
That's pretty well thought-out. I dig crazy Elseworlds, I just dislike how bizarrely common it is to make Diana a prick in them.

I would like Uber Woman, but I especially want "Batman is a douchebag and takes over the world" Elseworld.

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*tips tiara*

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>goat legs
But would /co/ still fuck it?

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So this is DC Dormammu, right?

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>>91900972
There's only a dozen more pages, friend.

>>91900994
No, but Dreamslayer is.

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>Mr. Guy-with-a-rifle
So most FPS protags?

>your refusal is noted, spic
wow, rude

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HELL YES

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>Bart's Soul

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>ywn have coffee with apes and babes

>>91901037
I like the implication that Donna has met the gorilla knights, and even hung out with them.

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When hypercrisis meets hypercube!

Thanks for reading, folks! Next time we'll be continuing Simone's run.

>next issue's cover says "Wonder Woman: the Movie"
Well this will be appropriate

>>91901276
Thanks, faggot.

>>91901276
Thanks, anon

>>91901138
FUCK YEAH!

Goddamn I love the Invisible Jet!

>>91901056
>even Donna wants Diana to get laid

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>>91898554

What went so wrong?

>>91901276
Thanks for posting, Tex.

Simone's run is so far so good. In fact, it's doing a way better job at the whole "Who is Wonder Woman?" thing.

>>91901425
Nicola Scott Wonder Woman statue WHEN?

We already have Paquette

>>91901574
After re-reading over 200 issues during and inbetween these storytimes, I've found that I like Rucka's run far less than before and Simone's far more. It felt a little jarring going from Jimenez to Rucka's run where Diana's a little bit pissy, and now back to Simone where she's back to being her usual optimistic self.

>>91901276
Thanks for posting.

There's a panel in the next issue that is perfect for out-of-context threads, because it already looks like an edit

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>>91901704
babies bump

The next two issues are perfect for the movie

>>91900828
Yes, this was a responsible place to have the fight.

>>91899866
Oh sure. He's a Gorilla so he MUST be Grodd.

>>91900383
>Giganta
>Darkseid
>Luke Cage?
>Heracles
>Circe
>Abraham Sapien?

>>91910210
First is actually supposed to be Cheetah.

Absolutely no clue who the black guy with the goatee is.

Last guy might be... Obsidian? Maybe?

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>>91911744

>>91911849
What did Diana ever do to Miller to deserve this shit?

>>91911870
Sorry man. I tried to find the variant with her and a baby, but it wasn't on the comicvine page.

Confession: I haven't actually read TDKR, or Strikes back

>>91900383

Heh. The guys there are all characters that were once touted as love interests.

>>91900900

Its funny how Batman never tried to take over the world in Elseworlds. Hes going to be an asshole, yeah, hes going to kill others and even suck their blood, sure, but it seems conquering the world is where he cross the line.