No one I think is in my tree
The other day I was bored at work, so I entertained myself by daydreaming about fan things (naturally). I've now come to the conclusion that ALL my fandoms need Detective Agency AUs - the more the merrier. Can't you just see it? "Cypher's Seekers: We Help the Hopeless" (Cara insists they were floundering before she showed up). Arthur and Morgana's detective agency, in which most of the actual detecting is done by Gwen (premonitions are hard, okay?). Dunham and Dunham - they will hunt down crime in every corner of the multiverse! Bering and Wells, time-traveling detective/crimefighting team of awesome. And so on.
Meanwhile, on Wonder Woman #6 : it was great fun - I like it when Diana is a cunning mastermind; it is fitting, especially, when she's up against the Greek gods, who are, well, gods and may be defeated (however temporarily) only through intelligent action than brute force.
Diana's confrontation with Hera, especially, was magnificent - I was initially a little bothered by the deeply sexist nature of the plan (shared by two brothers, ugh), but of course, it's precisely the kind of thing that would appeal to the male Greek gods and enrage Hera enough to appear in person. Her destruction of Hera's scrying pool at her own home is a nice touch; Hera, after all, destroyed Diana's home and everyone in it. And instead of a confrontation, which would certainly have not gone Diana's way, Diana simply blinded her and disappeared, almost trickster-ish - that's not a side of Diana we've always seen. I like it. I got a sense of despair in Diana's declaration that Hera's actions had already destroyed her, a sense that Diana feels that she has very little left to lose anymore - I'm very much intrigued by this.
The art was definitely the weak link - I personally didn't have a problem figuring out what was happening, but Chiang is far better at this sort of visual storytelling (JH III does similar things in Batwoman) than Akins seems to be, although he did try. I will be very glad to have Chiang back in the next issue.
ETA: On the subject of detective AUs: Santana Lopez as the Question! Or really, Santana Lopez as a detective in a fedora. ♥
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Meanwhile, on Wonder Woman #6 : it was great fun - I like it when Diana is a cunning mastermind; it is fitting, especially, when she's up against the Greek gods, who are, well, gods and may be defeated (however temporarily) only through intelligent action than brute force.
Diana's confrontation with Hera, especially, was magnificent - I was initially a little bothered by the deeply sexist nature of the plan (shared by two brothers, ugh), but of course, it's precisely the kind of thing that would appeal to the male Greek gods and enrage Hera enough to appear in person. Her destruction of Hera's scrying pool at her own home is a nice touch; Hera, after all, destroyed Diana's home and everyone in it. And instead of a confrontation, which would certainly have not gone Diana's way, Diana simply blinded her and disappeared, almost trickster-ish - that's not a side of Diana we've always seen. I like it. I got a sense of despair in Diana's declaration that Hera's actions had already destroyed her, a sense that Diana feels that she has very little left to lose anymore - I'm very much intrigued by this.
The art was definitely the weak link - I personally didn't have a problem figuring out what was happening, but Chiang is far better at this sort of visual storytelling (JH III does similar things in Batwoman) than Akins seems to be, although he did try. I will be very glad to have Chiang back in the next issue.
ETA: On the subject of detective AUs: Santana Lopez as the Question! Or really, Santana Lopez as a detective in a fedora. ♥
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