The Official Flash thread

[Odin's Fury]

Wasn't it that she was held up by the winds? So maybe if it's a calm day....

 

[Anubis]

I believe it's dead now. Died saving Themiscara or something.

 

[BrianWilly]

The entity is dead, but the technology of the jet is still around. It just showed up this week, albeit a bit...arbitrarily.

The best example of reintroducing Silver Age stuff into modern comics for me is still Rucka's recreation of Wonder Woman's invisible jet as a semi-sentient, shapeshifting, invisible entity. It made the concept less goofy and introduced a wealth of new story potential.

That wasn't Rucka. Byrne did that, actually, ages before.

does she use that often? cuz i always wondered why she would even need a jet if she herself can fly- unless of course its faster than she is.

She uses it to transport passengers and luggage. Occasionally it makes a handy weapon, too.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, okay. I became familiar with it during Rucka's run. Did all the writers between Byrne and Rucka just think it was stupid and not use it or something?

 

[BrianWilly]

They used it quite a bit.

Eric Luke turned it into the Wonderdome, and actually had it falling in love with WW at one point which was...well, it was something. And Jimenez is the one who made it into the infrastructure of Themyscira itself, which was why the island floated for a while, until Hera kicked it down during Rucka.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've only read bits and pieces of Wonder Woman comics between Perez's post-CoIE reintroduction and the last arc or two of Rucka's run.

 

[Mr. Green]

When I was kid WW was just a lame character. It didn't matter if the comic had the best writers/artists in the world-- all my comic-reading friends and I never READ the comic. It was Wonder Woman for crying out loud! No 10 year old boy reads WW!

Even now it kinda makes me laugh when people talk about how good WW is. I wouldn't mind picking up a tpb or HC once Gail Simone is done with her run on it though.

 

[Anubis]

Why not start now? Get some of the trades already out and read some of that good Wonder Woman you missed out on because of your being a sexist pig?

 

[Odin's Fury]

1. read previous post.

2. watch Anubis's avatar for 10 seconds.

3. laugh hysterically.

4. repeat.

 

[Anubis]

The avvy isn't about the booty, if you were smart enough you'd know that.

 

[WompuM]

I know you've been dieing for someone to mention it.

 

[Anubis]

I really have. Most people just say how much they like it....I never pry as to do they know what it's really about.

 

[Mr. Green]

Bill Cosby and his JELLO commercials, of course!

 

[Mr. Green]

Why not start now? Get some of the trades already out and read some of that good Wonder Woman you missed out on because of your being a sexist pig?

Did you like WW when you were a kid?

 

[Anubis]

Yup. Watched reruns of the show along with that live action Spider-Man.

 

[The Major]

When I was kid WW was just a lame character. It didn't matter if the comic had the best writers/artists in the world-- all my comic-reading friends and I never READ the comic. It was Wonder Woman for crying out loud! No 10 year old boy reads WW!

I didn't start realising how cool WW was until I read Grant Morrison's JLA. That title opened my eyes to the DCU's potential. It's also how I got to be a MM, Kyle Rayner and Wally West fan.

Before that I was a hardcore Marvel zombie.

Even now it kinda makes me laugh when people talk about how good WW is. I wouldn't mind picking up a tpb or HC once Gail Simone is done with her run on it though.

Why wait?

Start with The Circle.

 

[BrianWilly]

Rucka is also a very good place to start. I imagine it's what got most people here into WW in the first place, including me; it's more cerebral that Simone's action-laced run has been so far, but then Rucka is usually more cerebral than most.

The problem with starting with Rucka is that you then have to address the question of exactly what happened between Rucka and Simone, and the answer is...not pretty.

 

[Darthphere]

Rucka is also a very good place to start. I imagine it's what got most people here into WW in the first place, including me; it's more cerebral that Simone's action-laced run has been so far, but then Rucka is usually more cerebral than most.

The problem with starting with Rucka is that you then have to address the question of exactly what happened between Rucka and Simone, and the answer is...not pretty.

Not really. Allan Heinberg wrote some decent ****, then got lazy, Jodi Picoult never read a Wonder Woman comic in her life, Amazons Attack sucked major ass.

 

[BrianWilly]

Yeah that's not pretty.

 

[Darthphere]

It could be worse.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Not really. Allan Heinberg wrote some decent ****, then got lazy, Jodi Picoult never read a Wonder Woman comic in her life, Amazons Attack sucked major ass.

I think that Picoult could have written at least a decent story if it weren't a part of that Amazons Attack horse****.

 

[Darthphere]

No she couldn't. She had 3 pre-Amazons Attack issues and they sucked ass. "What's a credit card?" Are you ****ing kidding me?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, Picoult had interviews talking about how she'd never really read comics and didn't know much about Wonder Woman before her run started. A couple issues in that became very readily apparent.

 

[The Major]

Corp:

IIRC Picoult got information about WW from her son, who is a WW reader.

She should have researched the title more before writing it. The internet, reading interviews with previous writers like Rucka, Jiminez or Perez and trades could have helped a lot with filling in the gaps.

AA did not help at all. She would have been better without having that interfering with her stories.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm sure she had all those resources. I think DC provides their writers with any reference material they need.