It's time to go MAN-FISHING!
As the good comic book scholars that we all are in Superheroes class, each time we start a new superhero, we spend the first day discussing their earliest appearances. Prof. Saunders has an entertaining slideshow, we make jokes, it's all very nice.
Now, Early Superman was all about social reform, with stories about safe driving, supporting the downtrodden, and trapping evil mine owners in their own mines just to be a bastard. Good stuff.
Batman, of course, was all about ZOMG VENGEANCE IN THE NIGHT and saving people from evil hypnotist vampire-werewolves. Seriously.
But Wonder Woman. Oh, the weird and wonderful world of Wonder Woman. Of course, there are the many entertaining binding games of Paradise Island, but there are also giant fighting kangaroos, the Paradise Island sport of girl-roping, and, yes, man-fishing. Which actually happens on Eros (where prison is fun!), but six of one, half-dozen of the other, and all that.
...I have no way to express in words the awesomeness of Early Wonder Woman. It's just that good. I mean, man-fishing. And girl-roping. And the giant kangaroos.
Add in the crazily amazing backstory of her creator, William Moulton Marston (better known as Charles Moulton), who lived with both his wife and his mistress (who always wore heavy silver bracelets...hmm) in a cohabitational triad thing (that continued after his death, with the two women living together and raising the kids they named after one another), and had theories about how women were going to save the world because they possessed more love-organs, and who wanted to teach men via the Wonder Woman character about the powers and benefits of submission to a loving authority...
I just...dude. Wonder Woman. Awesome.
Now, Early Superman was all about social reform, with stories about safe driving, supporting the downtrodden, and trapping evil mine owners in their own mines just to be a bastard. Good stuff.
Batman, of course, was all about ZOMG VENGEANCE IN THE NIGHT and saving people from evil hypnotist vampire-werewolves. Seriously.
But Wonder Woman. Oh, the weird and wonderful world of Wonder Woman. Of course, there are the many entertaining binding games of Paradise Island, but there are also giant fighting kangaroos, the Paradise Island sport of girl-roping, and, yes, man-fishing. Which actually happens on Eros (where prison is fun!), but six of one, half-dozen of the other, and all that.
...I have no way to express in words the awesomeness of Early Wonder Woman. It's just that good. I mean, man-fishing. And girl-roping. And the giant kangaroos.
Add in the crazily amazing backstory of her creator, William Moulton Marston (better known as Charles Moulton), who lived with both his wife and his mistress (who always wore heavy silver bracelets...hmm) in a cohabitational triad thing (that continued after his death, with the two women living together and raising the kids they named after one another), and had theories about how women were going to save the world because they possessed more love-organs, and who wanted to teach men via the Wonder Woman character about the powers and benefits of submission to a loving authority...
I just...dude. Wonder Woman. Awesome.