beccatoria: (wonder woman)
beccatoria ([personal profile] beccatoria) wrote2011-07-10 12:22 am
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Post Awesome Things Month: Wonder Woman Picspam!

Okay, [livejournal.com profile] chaila43 has an awesome idea to do a Post Awesome Things month to counteract the dead air summer feeling around here right now, and I think it's great. Quite a few people are doing it, and I feel super bad for not replying to them all - I've been having a really busy/stressful week, to be honest, so please accept my apologies if you're reading this and I haven't replied. But I did spent this evening hiding from any and all responsibility by capping Wonder Woman pictures of Awesome Bits of the comics I recently read.

Honestly, these aren't the, um, what I consider the quintessential moments, really, because honestly most of those aren't easily capped because they're like whole SEQUENCES that BREAK MY HEART PRECIOUS and require like, context and stuff, but um, have a random collection of DianaCaps anyway!

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She is very good at punching.

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And practical about one should expect when engaging in tavern brawls in witchsquid hinterlands.

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Sometimes she brings gorillas as back-up.

Actually I was originally just going to show the hilarious contextless gorilla-assisted top panel, but I forgot to clip it out and the rest of the page is actually pretty cool and says a fair amount about the character too. So have that also. But mostly, gorillas.

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She will headbutt you.

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She will also win. But winning might kind of suck.

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I wouldn't.

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I would.

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She knows how to dress for an occasion.

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This occasion requires an extraordinary amount of violence.

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This occasion requires surrendering to the Hague in full diplomatic attire.

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If I were going to war, I would wear this instead of a swimsuit, too.

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She likes to hug people. Occasionally it is unsolicited

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Occasionally it is a cunning ruse to discuss alien cuisine.

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Usually it is full of love.

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Sometimes there cannot be hugs.

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She is super heroic!

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And trained in ambidexterous dual axe technique!

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And blind-fighting!

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And is fully aware of how to properly address an enemy (a necessary corollary of dressing for an occasion)!

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Being a practicing polytheistic superhuman in America can raise complex philsophical issues.

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However, as a recent convert to the Hawaiian sky god, Diana promotes religious freedom.

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In fact, the more gods with whom she is associated, the more she can defy in a dramatic manner. She has found Zeus is particularly useful for this.

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When she defies Athena, Athena usually caves. Diana is a total Daddy's girl.

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Oh Superman, I knew I loved you for a reason.

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I FIND THIS UTTERLY CHARMING.

But mostly, Diana knows who she is:
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And what's important:
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[identity profile] beccatoria.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! I'm glad to hear you are intrigued!

Don't worry about the initial unfamiliarity with the format - I went through that too, because it is much more different than you might think, in terms of reading experience. And honestly, to steal a term from [livejournal.com profile] pellucid, I don't think I'm a very good "spatial reader" either. I certainly have a tendency to read the words and THEN look at the picture (and probably not as well as I should). I also remember (and honestly still sometimes) getting lost as to who was talking. That's definitely something you get more used to as you get more use to the way that the speech bubbles are drawn. Similarly, it takes a bit of getting used to to grasp how the panels tend to flow when they do nonstandard ones (I mean, it's sensible - you read left to right and top to bottom, but sometimes it can be like the speech bubbles. You have to stop a second and go OH, right, okay, and then keep reading).

What I tend to do is read the words with the picture as background informing how I interpret them, then look at the picture (usually more swiftly than I'm sure the poor artists deserve!) to make sure I was right about what was happening. I think I adopt that method because I'm to damn impatient to make myself read slower but it seems to work for me.

Basically what I'm saying is, I went through that experience too and for me, I definitely did get used to it reasonably quickly. But I probably also had slightly more motivation? I'm definitely really thrilled to hear that this intrigues you though, and honestly, the comic cares more about mothers and sisters too, so you'll probably be okay. ;)

I haven't forgotten about that email I owe you - circumstances sadly dictate it'll probably not arrive til tonight now. ;)