Oh and I love that Wonder Woman likes heavy metal music, that's really cool.
@lykopis said:
As a brand new reader, I haven't done enough reading of her old stuff to make a fair comparison. What I do know -- I like the idea of a more Amazon-like Wonder Woman -- quick to anger and vulnerable to emotions that make her react brashly before taking full stock of the situation. But I do have a problem with the whole male babies thing going on. Having one guy tell her they are all happy to remain son-slaves to Hephaestus is irresponsible - surely there's a couple of them that can be talked to? For Wonder Woman to just accept it (although she is devastated) doesn't work for me. Aren't her Amazon brothers worth protecting? She's going out of her way to protect Zeus' unborn child's mother, but hundreds, maybe thousands of her own people are to be left in a weapons factory?
Really?
Anyway --- I am really enjoying the series and love she is so bad@ass. That was what I didn't like about the old WW (and again, this is from someone who never really read WW before but that was the impression I had). I'm a little creeped out with the family set-up -- not too sure about how I feel with the interpretations of some of the gods (what the hell was with Poseidon? And what the hell is going on with Hades? 0_0)
All in all, I think this new Wonder Woman book is pretty cool.
Greg Rucka and Gail Simone wrote a good Wonder Woman prior to the relaunch, if you want to check out some older stuff I would recommend that. Alot of mythical Greek cultures would abandon unwanted infants in the same fashion as the Amazons did in the DC universe, the most well known being the Spartans. Brian Azzarello talked about bringing Wonder Woman's origin more inline with actually Greek mythology and this is one of the ways he is doing that. I think that the unwanted Amazonian males now working for Hephaestus want to stay because it is all that they know and they see there group as a family of sorts. I think Wonder Woman is trying to come to terms with this knowledge and at the moment has more pressing matters to deal with. She can't confront her mother and the other Amazons about this because they are all dead. And yeah the family set-up is pretty creepy, but that's Greek mythology for ya! :P
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