Amazons Attack

[sethcohen]

what did everyone think of the first issue? i liked it... good pacing... pete woods art is outstanding as usual

 

[Binker]

I have this diea to discuss Amazons Attack and in turn the rest of Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman OYL thread.

So please close this, if you can, and lets discuss this series there.

 

[Darthphere]

Binker, shut it.

 

[Fledermaus]

I think what Darthphere is trying to say is, Binker, you should shut it.

 

[Binker]

Whats going on?

 

[Fledermaus]

We're just not discussing Amazon's Attack.

 

[Binker]

Okay......so why the rudeness?

 

[WompuM]

I didn't like it. Just like the wonder woman series, it seems disconnected from the rest of the dcu.

 

[Laplace_Zombie]

Perhaps the multiverse's got back just for the "it's a story from a different universe" excuse to show up for the editorial crap every now and then.

 

[Assassin]

It was boring, like Wonderwoman's book.

 

[BrianWilly]

Amazons Attack #1
...What the fck is this.

What.

The fck.

Is this??

Amazons do not...murder children. I just...they don't. I can't even...what the fck. Enough that the killed a completely defenseless and unarmed adult man, but that they would ruthlessly decapitate a child? WTF. AMAZONS DO NOT MURDER CHILDREN.

WTF.

You don't even understand how pissed I am at this. This is like a dozen...no, a hundred issues of CW: Frontline #11 all combined into one massive blob of incomprehensible, utter BULLSHT. Seriously, there had better be some serious goddamn wall-punching Skrulls cyborg clones chaos magic up in here, 'cause I don't...I don't even understand. Except that Pfeifer has said there's not going to be a mind-control solution to all this and that they Amazons have a good reason for attacking.

A GOOD REASON? Wonder Woman getting caught by the government? This is Pfeifer's "good reason?" WT to the F once again, because Wonder Woman has gotten into far, far worser sht than this and the Amazons just gave a collective shrug about it. Hell, the Amazons themselves have inflicted far worser sht on Diana. And now Diana's been sitting in jail for...what, a few hours?...and they unleash genocide on the world? These women who, above all, were sent by the gods to promote peace? Whose main patron is Athena, goddess of just warfare and was once ordered into exile by these goddess because they had lost their way and forgotten their peaceful message? This is some...fck. Skrulls. Hell, apparently Sarge Steel is a Skrull in this right now, so maybe I'm not too far off. Hell, Sarge Steel being a Skrull is possibly the only good thing about this issue, since at least it negates him being a prck in WW#7.

And Hippolyta. Don't even get me startokay here I go. She's spent years upon years with the Justice Society, getting to become lifelong friends with these heroes. Oh, yeah, and she fcked Wildcat. She loves America. She loves men! She gave her life heroically for this world, and it was one of the most well-done deaths in memory. Circe just brings her back with a wave of her arms and now Hippolyta is this evil war general queen mother btch goddess slumped over in her throne being an evil man-hating btch? WTF.

If Perez was dead, he'd be rolling in his grave. His version of ideal, peaceloving, feminine, three-dimensional, maternal, worldly women has been replaced by every geeky misogynist's worst nightmare: an army of vicious man-hating btches who like to do nothing more than to hate men and kill people then hate men some more. His ahead-of-his-times feminist comic portray of this ancient race has been tossed aside for the most nonsensical bullsht I've read in my life.

And, oh yeah, why the hell do the Amazons trust Circe, now? She's evil! They know she's evil because they once had imprisoned her on their island in a correctional facility and they knew it wasn't working because, well, they weren't stupid man-hating btches back then.

And I knew this would happen! I knew it! Well, okay, not in the sense that I actually knew what the hell was going to happen, but I kinda did!

I'm also not interested in reading about some stupid "misunderstanding fight" between the Amazons and the US*. Way to continue the false conception of the Amazons and Wonder Woman being nothing but bloodthirsty warriors who don't know how to do anything but fight. It's not as if they're a utopian society with advanced philosophical values and arts and sciences who want nothing more than to show the world of Man the values and worth of compassion and feminine ideals or anything.

It sounds alarmingly like Civil War, to be honest; lotsa mischaracterizations and big fights over nothing.

See how I vaguely predicted sort of what may or may not actually happen? As time went on, I opened up more and more to the idea of this series...hell, I thought that it was Picoult's parts of this story that we would need to worry about and that Pfeifer would be its saving it somehow. Never in a million years did I even consider that it would be the other way around.

(0.1 out of 10)
The ".1" is for somewhat cool-looking armor.

 

[SouLeSS]

Because that's how Darth roles.

 

[WompuM]

BriWi, I like the way you covered those bases. Is this series even important? Screw it. I'm not getting the rest. All I want in it is hot lesbian action and power rings.

 

[WompuM]

p.s. the only enjoyable part of this issue was "cut the chatter red two."

 

[Prognosticator]

okay, so I gotta ask, what issues of Wonder Woman are crucial to following Amazon Attacks w/o feeling lost?

 

[BrianWilly]

Honestly? Issues #7 and 8 are enough. In fact, the more you know about Wonder Woman canon, the less sense "Amazons Attack" makes.

 

[Prognosticator]

thanks willy. i read issue one of the new launch and dropped the title. i prefered what Rucka was writing about before IC

 

[BrianWilly]

You and everyone else.

 

[Binker]

The Amazons are obviously being controleld by Circe, including Hippolyta. Thats enough for me to continue this book.

 

[Darthphere]

Okay......so why the rudeness?

Are you dense? Are you ******ed? I'm the goddamn Darthphere.

 

[BrianWilly]

The Amazons are obviously being controleld by Circe, including Hippolyta. Thats enough for me to continue this book.

I wish that were the case. Except that Pfeifer has stated, "But it’s not all a big plot hatched by Circe – the leaders of the Amazons have a strong motive for the attack, and they’re not simple launching it because they’re under mind control." So...take that however you will.

Ugh. I had thought that Picoult's WW#6 pretty much personified my worst nightmare rendition of Wonder Woman's mythos. I never dreamed that it could get any worse.

 

[Binker]

Could Pfeifer have just said that just to hide some spoilers? I mean look at WW #8; Hippolyta's eyes are seen in one panel as purple. You can't tell me that there is something going on?

Mind controlled or not, I can understand from the times between America and the amazons why this is happeneding.

 

[Primal Slayer]

ya I think Hippolyta is being influenced by Circe to a certain extent since they made it seem that way in WW



Circe made it seem like what she wants, Hipp will do

 

[sethcohen]

i could maybe... maybe maybe MAYBE see a pissed off amazon fragging an innocent bystander out of anger based on the reason for them going to war (diana's imprisonment) but never a father in front of his child... and definately not the child, though i didnt infer that the child was killed, but that was my interpretation...

 

[Varient]

Initial response?


MEH.


Waiting to see if it improves.

Nuff Said.