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04 2 / 2012
This is what women in superhero comics should be: One of the most feminist moments in Gail Simone's Wonder Woman run
I wish I had copuld find a pic of the actual panel. During Gail Simone’s first story arc, The Circle (Wonder Woman vol. 3, Issue 15), Wonder Woman is going to gods of various pantheons to help her find a way to Themyscira. And then something profoundly feminist happens.
From Amazon Archives:
Finally the Amazon Princess visits, Kane Miohai, God of the Sky and Heavens. He tells her he understands her predicament but cannot help. She kneels on the ground before him and subjugating herself, swears that if he aids her she pledges her allegiance to him. No god will come before him in her eyes she assures him, and when he needs a weapon she will be his fiery sword. She continues that she gives her life to him of her own free will if it will help save her tribe and her mother. She gives him her word as an Amazon and says that he is her last and only hope. He smiles down at her and asks her to rise, agreeing to her terms and offering her a red arm band to wear as his battle standard. She hugs him in gratitude and he tells her that she reminds him of what a daughter’s love means”
I gots a picture of this!
It’s an awesome moment. And then she wears that armband for like…another gajillion issues. She prays to him not Zeus when she needs guidance. And it’s all from an understated yet absolute and completely immovable desire to save her mother. Not a father, not a boyfriend, her Ma. For reasons I can’t quite explain in words, that always just stuck with me. It was elegant and meaningful and I wish Kane Miohai had been a bigger part of her story too.
I am just going to be over here flailyhandsing about how amazing The Circle is and how fantastically layered all the family dynamics in it are (and how awesome it is that this moment comes around full circle - no pun intended - and Kane’s daughter demonstrates the same sort of daughterly love in attempting to revenge herself upon Diana for Kane’s death. I LOVE that).
28 1 / 2012
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WONDERBOMB by Tim Shumate
Prints available at society6.
Artist: website / facebook / deviantart / redbubble
(via Tim’s tumblr: timshumateillustrations)
12 12 / 2011
Wonder Woman 1-3 Giveaway
Thats right, I am giving away the first 3 issues of the new Wonder Woman series by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang. All you have to do is message me and let me know what your first Wonder Woman comic was. Whether it was an issue of her own series or a Justice League issue. That first comic with her in it that you read. I’ll pick the winner from there.
I’ll try to mail it out before Xmas. I’ll let you know.
You have to be following this blog BTW.
I don’t remember what it was except it was a standalone WW comic in the late 1970s.
I was too young! I have no good memory of it except that I would lay paper over it and trace the designs to make my own comic.
Call the wahmbulance for me ;)
