This may be the most unhinged comic page I’ve ever read and that’s saying something considering Archie Sonic comics exist lol
A lot of people are speculating that this was Tom King (former CIA) prob working out former traumas on the page and… if so, wow. Just wow that’s so specific if true wow lol
It'd be more honest and genuine within its genre, without going creepy with Wonder Woman. And if not for Kelly Thompson killing it on Birds of Prey, seeing him handle a more thoughtful version of Dixon's time on the title has real potential. (To be fair all I like from him is his Batman run)
I'm just confused how Diana could get in these situations. Like, she has super strength, is nigh-invulnerable, can fly, and has minor magic capabilities.
Her only weakness is bondage.
I’m wondering if the Amazons themselves did it or if she got captured by a villain (it has happened!) which would explain it. I haven’t read the issue so I have no context but also yeah, you’re not wrong
actually. thinking about various things,
i wonder if the rat is a metaphor
for *another* kind of experience that he can't seem to resolve in his mind with the person who he understands himself to be
This run of Power girl was fun but this bit was dumb. The writers should just have her admit she has the boob window cause she likes having a boob window. It isn't hard, writing these "deep" reasons makes it come off as more shallow than if there was no reason given.
“This cutout? It’s just a bit of cleavage. I like the way it looks and it’s not like the girls aren’t locked in place. It’s all fashion anyway, it’s not like I need anything to ‘protect’ my chest.”
The artist is working so hard to have closeups of both the face and the boobs in each panel. Should have split the page into 6 panels so it could be 3 each.
"Tom King probably has some heinous stuff under his belt from his time overseas in the CIA" is a thought I take away from more than one of his books.
(I do enjoy them overall but yeah knowing his background does add some "HMMM" subtext to them)
He definitely spends a lot of time working out daddy issues and whatever horrific shit he saw over there. Which … sometimes is fascinating, and sometimes is an absolute fucking mess.
(Also the entire arc has self-justifying first-person narration by the villain, who is the hereditary Secret King of America, who wields the Lasso of Lies and whose master plan involves whipping up a panic over Amazon immigrants, so... yeah, I reckon TK might be working out some stuff.)
I kind of like his stuff, taken on its own merits: It's got some of the psychedelic paranoia of Frank Miller back when he was good -- a lot of it reminds me of ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN, actually -- but boy, it's hard to separate the artist from the art.
I was being flippant -- I very much doubt he personally tortured anyone, but he knew what was going down, and he quit, and now he writes superhero comic with the constant recurring theme "The US security apparatus is deeply fucked-up."
Why is Wonder Woman so like actually impossible for people to write? She's a proud amazonian woman with ties to the modern world but often still learning how to fit in without losing her identity.
Why do so many writers write her as a crazy lunatic? And like, in so many different ways? XD
Well, because alot of writers try to write her as their interpretation of an ideal woman instead of an actual person. In King’s case, it’s because the dude is using superheroes as his therapy.
I think a lot of "Big Name" writers approach Wonder Woman as a character who needs to be "fixed" in order to cater to their existing audience rather than polishing what she already has...
The real reason DC reboots their universe every few years is because their writers keep putting weird baggage like this on their major characters and they desperately need to bury it.
