Diana is always on top
I owe people comments. I will get on that shortly - things have been... disorienting. Yesterday I traveled halfway across the city early in the morning just to cater to my paranoia (I did get a lift from a generous friend, but nonetheless). *facepalm* The heat, I think, is slowly melting my brain.
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Thoughts on Lois Lane's place in the DCU, which then veers on to a fascinating discussion about Steve Trevor as well. The discussion continues here. I'm lacking in brain cells at the moment so I have nothing insightful to offer, but as a fan who is mostly apathetic towards Steve Trevor's presence in Diana's life, this is a great read:
In the 40s, in the middle of wartime, there would be scenes with General Darnell, Colonel Trevor and other high-ranking military officers standing around listening to Wonder Woman’s ideas. That in itself is amazing. What is even more amazing is when you stop to think that she is the girlfriend of one of these officers, and she is not being written off and he has no problem whatsoever with his girlfriend being better at his job than he is.
And that’s why we still need him in the narrative, because even today we have parts written out of movies because they feel an action heroine saving her husband emasculates him. With Steve we have a guy who is uniformly happy with being outmatched in the “manly ways” by not just a woman but a woman he’s involved with, and retains a traditionally masculine demeanor. This is pretty much the only character who plays this role to a heroine of iconic status, and it is a tragedy we never got to see him developed in the modern-story-telling line as we did Lois Lane.
I caught up on Wonder Woman after a couple of months separation, and Amazon-related unpleasantness aside, can I just say how much I love Azzarello and Chiang's Diana? There's something about the way she's portrayed that pings all my I LOVE YOU YOU PERFECT CREATURE buttons, and I'm reduced to a pathetic puddle. Her entire world has been turned upside down (again), and what does she do?
Suit up for hell, naturally. Chiang draws her so tall and powerful and I just... No words. ♥___♥ The skirt is my favourite look on her, reminiscent of the one she wore in Rucka's run in the fight with Medusa (GLORIOUS TIMES).
And that's Wonder Woman, ladies and gentlemen. That's the woman who blinded herself to defeat Medusa, because 'one mortal life is worth more'. She will go to hell and back (literally, here; also here is
bluefall's spectacular post about the Medusa incident) for one mortal life. The gods do not understand this, the gods never will. And that’s why Diana stands between them and the mortal world.
PS: SPECTACULAR BACKFLIP FTW
And this is where she gets hugged, aw.
By the end of this issue, I wanted to hug her - A LOT. She's trying so hard and things just keep getting worse and worse and her entire family is dead (how is that for angst, Batman?) and she can't even ask them for their side of the story and now creepy Hades wants to marry her. It's a good thing the previews for the next issue are up because I cannot wait, Tony Akins art notwithstanding (GUESS WHO IS IN THE PREVIEW? ♥♥♥).
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hibernate has a Myka/HG recs post that looks utterly fabulous. I haven't read all of them yet, but there's this one story I insist all W13 fans read at once:
Perhaps not to be by
ladyshinkicker. Long post-S3 not-fix-it. In fact, it's so far from being a fix it that it will break your heart into tiny little pieces and then stomp all over them, grinding them into dust. It's also the best HG I've read.
For as long as Helena still exists, there is a chance that she will find the artefact, or perfect her time machine, or find some other way to save her daughter: knowing this is not hope. Knowing this is to count every passing second as another one in which Christina is in danger, waiting to be saved. Knowing this is to spend every moment without Christina cursing her failure as a parent, because Christina is still in danger, because at a point in time Helena believes she may still access, her daughter is dying, and Helena doesn’t know how to save her. And if there is the slightest chance, however remote, that she can change the rules of linear temporality itself, Helena will do so because there still exists a time in which her daughter is alive and that means she can still be saved.
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Thoughts on Lois Lane's place in the DCU, which then veers on to a fascinating discussion about Steve Trevor as well. The discussion continues here. I'm lacking in brain cells at the moment so I have nothing insightful to offer, but as a fan who is mostly apathetic towards Steve Trevor's presence in Diana's life, this is a great read:
In the 40s, in the middle of wartime, there would be scenes with General Darnell, Colonel Trevor and other high-ranking military officers standing around listening to Wonder Woman’s ideas. That in itself is amazing. What is even more amazing is when you stop to think that she is the girlfriend of one of these officers, and she is not being written off and he has no problem whatsoever with his girlfriend being better at his job than he is.
And that’s why we still need him in the narrative, because even today we have parts written out of movies because they feel an action heroine saving her husband emasculates him. With Steve we have a guy who is uniformly happy with being outmatched in the “manly ways” by not just a woman but a woman he’s involved with, and retains a traditionally masculine demeanor. This is pretty much the only character who plays this role to a heroine of iconic status, and it is a tragedy we never got to see him developed in the modern-story-telling line as we did Lois Lane.
I caught up on Wonder Woman after a couple of months separation, and Amazon-related unpleasantness aside, can I just say how much I love Azzarello and Chiang's Diana? There's something about the way she's portrayed that pings all my I LOVE YOU YOU PERFECT CREATURE buttons, and I'm reduced to a pathetic puddle. Her entire world has been turned upside down (again), and what does she do?
Suit up for hell, naturally. Chiang draws her so tall and powerful and I just... No words. ♥___♥ The skirt is my favourite look on her, reminiscent of the one she wore in Rucka's run in the fight with Medusa (GLORIOUS TIMES).
And that's Wonder Woman, ladies and gentlemen. That's the woman who blinded herself to defeat Medusa, because 'one mortal life is worth more'. She will go to hell and back (literally, here; also here is
bluefall's spectacular post about the Medusa incident) for one mortal life. The gods do not understand this, the gods never will. And that’s why Diana stands between them and the mortal world.
PS: SPECTACULAR BACKFLIP FTW
And this is where she gets hugged, aw.
By the end of this issue, I wanted to hug her - A LOT. She's trying so hard and things just keep getting worse and worse and her entire family is dead (how is that for angst, Batman?) and she can't even ask them for their side of the story and now creepy Hades wants to marry her. It's a good thing the previews for the next issue are up because I cannot wait, Tony Akins art notwithstanding (GUESS WHO IS IN THE PREVIEW? ♥♥♥).
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hibernate has a Myka/HG recs post that looks utterly fabulous. I haven't read all of them yet, but there's this one story I insist all W13 fans read at once:
Perhaps not to be by
ladyshinkicker. Long post-S3 not-fix-it. In fact, it's so far from being a fix it that it will break your heart into tiny little pieces and then stomp all over them, grinding them into dust. It's also the best HG I've read.
For as long as Helena still exists, there is a chance that she will find the artefact, or perfect her time machine, or find some other way to save her daughter: knowing this is not hope. Knowing this is to count every passing second as another one in which Christina is in danger, waiting to be saved. Knowing this is to spend every moment without Christina cursing her failure as a parent, because Christina is still in danger, because at a point in time Helena believes she may still access, her daughter is dying, and Helena doesn’t know how to save her. And if there is the slightest chance, however remote, that she can change the rules of linear temporality itself, Helena will do so because there still exists a time in which her daughter is alive and that means she can still be saved.
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