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The Secret Huntress Fan Club! (DC Comics: The New 52)
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It's kind of weird because all three of those pics are different styles by George Perez and Huntress looks great in all of them, but Power Girl is lacking
Amanda Conner! Come back to us!
I've found a good use for it, though: Every time someone tries to suck me into Facebook drama, I grab Final Crisis, crack it open to a random page, and type the first thing I see, over and over again until everyone involved thinks I have mental health issues.
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The modernizations of Eros and Hephaestus are amazing
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Positive: Continues interesting takes on Greek gods; Wonder Woman is starting to actually do stuff herself.
Negative: Bigger character assassination than Amazons Attack re. the Amazons.
Needz more beez.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
And honestly, the Amazons could do with more flaws. The whole PERFECT UTOPIA OF WARRIOR WOMEN WHO ARE BOTH ANCIENT GREEK AND ALSO SUPER ADVANCED is kinda boring
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invisible jettttttttttttttttttttt
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also damn is Cliff Chiang's art so good
From the beginning, in Wonder Woman the Amazons have always been a purposeful reinvention of this. In Wonder Woman the stories that the Greeks told about them were propaganda, to dehumanise a group they felt threatened by. Wonder Woman presented "the true story of the Amazons" - all the constant harrassing shit they put up with from the Greeks eventually leading Aphrodite to give them a paradise to retire to.
The concept is in need of updating I'll agree - starting with exploring the rougher edges their society would have. But the core idea is a solid one. There's no need to throw it out, and replace it with the same generic Amazons you see at Marvel, in movies and tv shows, books and the Classical Greek misogynist tradition. Azzarello's taking something uniquely Wonder Woman and replacing it with Brand X. I'm honestly surprised, considering all the stuff he's saddling them with, he hasn't made them self-mutilating.
I think I typed enough huge posts on the old Wonder Woman thread that I won't bother expressing my view of the Amazons here, but suffice to say I think they should be background for Diana - liken to Superman's parents. Useful now and again as a story point, but the focus should be firmly off them, and on the hero.
(I've also soured a bit on Azzarello as a writer after finishing 100 Bullets, which through the first few volumes became potentially one of my favourite books and then fell apart completely down the stretch. Also, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - disappointed by; but perhaps due to the hype for what I thought was a just-above-average book.)
But this is the most interesting Steve Trevor I think I've ever read. Interested to see where this arc goes.
And the Shazam back up has me wanting to see more.
I definitely agree with that, plus all the arguing in the Watchtower. I was hoping that the present-day JL would be a well-oiled machine. That said, it's still one of my favorite titles.
I still love a lot of the interactions and blending of these new personalities though.
unless they change his name to black shazam... or kazam
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https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
It is.
Yeah, there's a caption at the start that reads "Present Day."
But that's exactly why I love him! He takes the idea that superheroes are a kids' power fantasy and makes it literal.
For me, the first anything I ever read with Captain Marvel was Kingdom Come, and I've liked him ever since then. Making Billy Batson a punk really rubs me the wrong way though, because Captain Marvel is supposed to be the outward expression of his hope and naive confidence.
To be honest, Jeff Smith's Shazam bothered me a little bit too by making Captain Marvel a different person than Billy Batson.
Stop that
Making me feel dumb that is.