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Post Awesome Things Month: Wonder Woman Picspam!
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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!
She is very good at punching.
And practical about one should expect when engaging in tavern brawls in witchsquid hinterlands.
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.
She will headbutt you.
She will also win. But winning might kind of suck.
I wouldn't.
I would.
She knows how to dress for an occasion.
This occasion requires an extraordinary amount of violence.
This occasion requires surrendering to the Hague in full diplomatic attire.
If I were going to war, I would wear this instead of a swimsuit, too.
She likes to hug people. Occasionally it is unsolicited
Occasionally it is a cunning ruse to discuss alien cuisine.
Usually it is full of love.
Sometimes there cannot be hugs.
She is super heroic!
And trained in ambidexterous dual axe technique!
And blind-fighting!
And is fully aware of how to properly address an enemy (a necessary corollary of dressing for an occasion)!
Being a practicing polytheistic superhuman in America can raise complex philsophical issues.
However, as a recent convert to the Hawaiian sky god, Diana promotes religious freedom.
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.
When she defies Athena, Athena usually caves. Diana is a total Daddy's girl.
Oh Superman, I knew I loved you for a reason.
I FIND THIS UTTERLY CHARMING.
But mostly, Diana knows who she is:
And what's important:
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!
She is very good at punching.
And practical about one should expect when engaging in tavern brawls in witchsquid hinterlands.
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.
She will headbutt you.
She will also win. But winning might kind of suck.
I wouldn't.
I would.
She knows how to dress for an occasion.
This occasion requires an extraordinary amount of violence.
This occasion requires surrendering to the Hague in full diplomatic attire.
If I were going to war, I would wear this instead of a swimsuit, too.
She likes to hug people. Occasionally it is unsolicited
Occasionally it is a cunning ruse to discuss alien cuisine.
Usually it is full of love.
Sometimes there cannot be hugs.
She is super heroic!
And trained in ambidexterous dual axe technique!
And blind-fighting!
And is fully aware of how to properly address an enemy (a necessary corollary of dressing for an occasion)!
Being a practicing polytheistic superhuman in America can raise complex philsophical issues.
However, as a recent convert to the Hawaiian sky god, Diana promotes religious freedom.
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.
When she defies Athena, Athena usually caves. Diana is a total Daddy's girl.
Oh Superman, I knew I loved you for a reason.
I FIND THIS UTTERLY CHARMING.
But mostly, Diana knows who she is:
And what's important:
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I'm not a huge comics reader either, although I am getting more into them these days. But it's great to hear you're interested in reading more of her! :D
Unfortunately, I don't know that much about where the good Superman/Wonder Woman friendship stuff is because I'm not that widely read myself. They have always been really good friends, but most of the two runs of the comic that I've fallen in love with don't feature him heavily. Both of the panels above, though, are from the last issue written by Greg Rucka, in his run (Vol 2 #226) which is kind of a standalone epilogue to his storylines, and is basically a flashback across Wonder Woman's life about her friendship with Superman because in the current timeline she just did something for very good reasons, that devastated him. But you could probably just read it on its own.
As to general reading for her, I guess I'd recommend anything written by either Gail Simone or Greg Rucka.
Wonder Woman Volume 2 ran from issue #1 to issue #226. I would recommend reading issues 195 - 226 as that is Rucka's run and it provides a fairly easy jumping in point. I would include a warning that 195 - 198 are fairly slow and very deliberately takes a stance of talking about how Diana is perceived rather than who she is. This shifts fairly rapidly and ultimately the payoff is worth it, especially in terms of his thematic work with perception vs truth, but I wouldn't blame anyone who read the first four issues for being somewhat underwhelmed having been promised epic battles and tragedy and triumph. The rest of the run, though, is brilliant.
Then Wonder Woman Volume 3 ran from issue #1 - #44, and I'd recommend reading Gail Simone's work on that which is #14 - #44. You could read the first thirteen issues if you want, but you really don't need to. I read them after I read Simone's run and while there were a few things that clarified questions I vaguely had or made me go, "Oh that's what they were referring to" it didn't increase or decrease the enjoyment I had from Simone's run, which was pretty self-contained.
There's a time jump between Volume 2 and Volume 3 that ties into a big universe-spanning, reality-warping event called "Infinite Crisis". And part of the gimmick was that after that all the comic series jumped forward a year to see the characters in new, different situations. I haven't read most of that and it didn't bother me. The two runs work very well as self-contained stories, and basically, the discrepancies between them can generally be explained with the catchall, "there's this missing year; some bad shit went down, don't sweat it."
Unless of course, you want to sweat it. In which case, yay, you obviously like comics a lot now, go read Infinite Crisis then come back and tell me if it was worth it! ;)
Anyway, that was probably so long it was more intimidating than helpful, but I'm really glad you enjoyed the picspam and to hear that you'd like to check out some more about the character. :D