The Official WONDER WOMAN Discussion Thread

[Manic]

Apparently, some generic "end of the world" scenario is going on. The dude with the glowy eyes needs help to stop it, and some oracle told him the only way to do so was to grab 3 very specific sword-wielding badasses. Wonder Woman is one. Beowulf is another. And... I'm not sure who the 3rd guy they just met is.

 

[RockSP]

I'm not sure who the 3rd guy they just met is.

The Claw.

 

[BrianWilly]

I'm sticking with Conan.

 

[BrianWilly]

Okay fine it's not.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I thought Conan at first too, but I knew I'd seen that guy before.

 

[RockSP]

Okay fine it's not.

Conan is at Dark Horse. They couldn't use him arbitrarily.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They could've just called him Bohan or something instead.

 

[RockSP]

They called him Claw and gave him a demon hand.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Touché.

 

[CLARKY]

Apparently, some generic "end of the world" scenario is going on. The dude with the glowy eyes needs help to stop it, and some oracle told him the only way to do so was to grab 3 very specific sword-wielding badasses. Wonder Woman is one. Beowulf is another. And... I'm not sure who the 3rd guy they just met is.

Well, I wasn't sure to know who beowulf was and I had no idea who the stalker was ! Anyway, thanks, I think I understand a little more ; I did understand a bit of this but I wasn't sure at all ; there is a lot of "writing fioritures" around the main action and I was wondering what the hell is the real story.
I like it nevertheless. The story telling of A.Loprestri is excellent.

 

[Anubis]

Claw the Unconquered's been around for years. He had a mini just last year.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

... that nobody read or cared about.

 

[Anubis]

...why do you hate America?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

'Cause it kicked my dog once. ****in' America.

 

[mythicalheroes]

Karen Cliche looks like Alex Ross's Wonder Woman what do everyone think ?

 

[CLARKY]

The last issue of WW was really nice, but I keep asking myself "what the heck is going on?" What was the part with Diana as the queen of the amazons with the JL knights around her about ?
I love the barbarian, thing, swords, demon, armors, that's fine and I enjoy it, and I keep thinking that's what WW sould be about : warrior, amazon, etc ...

 

[spark627]

The last issue of WW was really nice, but I keep asking myself "what the heck is going on?" What was the part with Diana as the queen of the amazons with the JL knights around her about ?
I love the barbarian, thing, swords, demon, armors, that's fine and I enjoy it, and I keep thinking that's what WW sould be about : warrior, amazon, etc ...

The Queen part was a dream, when she put her lasso around Stalker his soulessness and darkness consumed her, she feels herself getting darker each day and feels she is losing her compassion (hence how violent and careless she has been in battle). The dream was what would/could happen to her if she does not get the rock from Stalker and redeem herself.

 

[Manic]

Aaannnnndddd Donna flies into Diana's house. Let's face it; Nemesis is going to know that Diana Prince is Wonder Woman. Either that, or he'll think that Diana has some connections in the superhero community.

Overall, I think this story is alright. Wonder Woman works best as a mythological being fighting other mythological stuff, and it looks like Simone knows this (just like she knew Birds of Prey was a walking martial arts saga waiting to happen), but she's still kinda finding her way with this book. Hopefully, this gets better.

 

[BrianWilly]

I don't know that WW is always the best dealing with mythological stuff; I like her when she's an active part of the DCU that just so happens to be swept up in mythological things occasionally. An arc like this seemed like an okay idea in theory, but was just story whiplash all over the place especially after the last two arcs.

And I'm not that impressed with how Simone has set up Diana's loss of humanity or whatever here; it was a complete instance of "tell not show." She shows Diana doing some mean things that she wouldn't normally do maybe once or twice -- which is hard to tell anyway, 'cause it's not like Diana isn't prone to some "aggressive negotiations"

even on a good day -- and then proceeds to tell us through text boxes for three issues straight over and over again how very depraved our heroine is becoming. Yeah, homie don't play that.

At this point, I don't hesitate to say that I'm much more interested in whatever's going on with Tom, the gorillas, and Donna than I am in whatever happens with this random apocalypse villain who's supposed to be all scary but hasn't actually done anything of note. Well, I suppose there's always the next issue.

 

[Manic]

At this point, I don't hesitate to say that I'm much more interested in whatever's going on with Tom, the gorillas, and Donna than I am in whatever happens with this random apocalypse villain who's supposed to be all scary but hasn't actually done anything of note.

Same here, actually. As I read this issue, I was all "hey, Nemesis hasn't used his disguise thingy that often, lately. Ah, cool, I love Donna. She should appear more often. Aaannnddd, we're back to whatever the hell Diana is doing with Beowulf and that Claw dude. *snore*"

Honestly, I sometimes think Gail Simone decides what story arcs to write based on whatever DVDs she recently rented. Sometimes that works out, like when she turned Birds of Prey into a kung-fu movie during the 'Sensei* & Student' arc, but in this case, it's like she finished watching Beowulf and thought "hey, I should slap together a few issues where he teams up with Wonder Woman." And it failed.




*I'm still irked that Dinah's Chinese kung-fu teacher was called a sensei, since that's a term used for Japanese teachers. Technically, the arc should've been called 'Sifu & Student' but that's a rant for another day.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I was more interested in Donna's appearance, too. I kind of slogged through the rest of the issue and then got excited when Donna showed up. This whole alternate reality jaunt is becoming tiresome.

 

[BrianWilly]

Honestly, I sometimes think Gail Simone decides what story arcs to write based on whatever DVDs she recently rented. Sometimes that works out, like when she turned Birds of Prey into a kung-fu movie during the 'Sensei* & Student' arc, but in this case, it's like she finished watching Beowulf and thought "hey, I should slap together a few issues where he teams up with Wonder Woman." And it failed.

Add "300" to that list for the upcoming Manazons.

 

[Phenomenal]

Has Any character tapped that ass of Wonder Woman's? How come no one has hit that yet?

 

[Manic]

Has Any character tapped that ass of Wonder Woman's? How come no one has hit that yet?

Someone has. Don't tell Lois, though.




Seriously, I think the closest anyone has ever come to tapping some of that hot Diana tail was when some guy married Donna.

Sex with her identical little sister. That's about it.

 

[BrianWilly]

If Trevor Barnes didn't go all the way then he sure as heck got pretty darn close.