What do I think?
Shamazons Attack #6
Well...I was
almosthttp://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?p=12565385&#post12565385 correct.
I don't...well...what to say, really? This is really a fine time to reinforce the lesson that no matter how bad you think things are, they can always,
always get worse. I'd
thought that Frontline #11 was the single most offensively bad issue of mainstream comics I've read in recent memory, and then I read issue one of
this series. I thought that was rock bottom, until we get to
this issue. Make no mistake: this series epicfails on every single level: it was obviously editorially mandated which is the worst kind of mandated that anything could be; no single character is recognizable; no single event adheres to continuity; hard works that other writers have placed into these characters are defaced with no more regard than one might have for an irritating itch; a writer who is otherwise probably not too bad will now have
this on his resume; worst of all, it's
offensive. The heights of misogyny and social pandering that most people
mock these days is openly celebrated and glorified here by writers and editors
too farking stupid to know what they're doing.
What to say? Despite the fact that Pfeifer is
on record as saying that there is no mind control whatsoever involved in this story, Circe reveals here that she
did, in fact, twist Hippolyta's mind. If you think that makes the story better, I'm sorry to have to let you down: it doesn't. It in fact makes Hippolyta appear that much weaker because Circe didn't take over her mind or anything, she just
nudged it into being a bit more "tainted." So now we're to believe that Hippolyta
was in fact once loving and compassionate and good, but a little mental nudging -- not even full-blown mind-control, mind you -- drove her into her bloodthirsty cockhating. What's that supposed to mean...that she wasn't even all that good in the first place? The rest of the Amazons, incidentally, get no such excuse; they're just evil little btches who didn't muster up the spine to defy their queen and instead delighted in the murdering of children. The sortaplot arc from earlier with Artemis and Phillipus planning rebellion against their insane queen goes
absolutely nowhere and Pfeifer even
draws attention to the fact, specifically pointing out that while they
thought about rebellion, they didn't actually go through with it. Because...somehow they just didn't.
What else? Circe has been turned from one of the better Wonder Woman villains into a running gag, much like Deathstroke or the Skrulls. Incidentally, I love how she refers to herself as "tainted," considering that Heinberg and even Picoult spent a whole bunch of time informing us that she actually believes herself ethically superior and that it's just everyone else whose perspectives are skewed. No no guys, she actually thinks that she herself is corrupt! My God. Bees. The fact that this series can't keep continuity straight from anything more than a year old is one thing; the fact that it can't keep continuity straight with the
only other title that it needs to keep continuity with is a mark of ineptitude that I hoped never to see again in any comic book after the Xorneto clusterfck of X-Men: Reload.
What else? That "twist ending" was more telegraphed than Lindsay Lohan. Not telegraphed in the sense that the series itself actually foreshadowed it in any tangible way whatseover, mind you; that would imply actual foresight here. No, it was merely telegraphed in the sense that DC had
spoiled the whole thing months ago to anyone paying attention. Here's a clue: GODS!
I hate this series more than I hate anything that both Marvel and DC has put out in the last five years because, unlike everything else that I hate, there's no way for me to feasibly ignore this.
(1.9 out of 10)
(0 out of 10 for the entire series)
Oh, and Hippolyta is sentenced to live on Paradise Island alone for all time.
And to make matters worst Pfeifer has found a way to keep this horrible idea of a story to go on and on and on. My, God it's Civil War all over again. The only good news is that sales are really bad on the crossover and that only Catwoman is the only crossover to this crap fest that is selling lower then Amazons Attack and Catwoman is written by Pfeifer as well. but what do you think?
