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beccatoria) wrote2011-07-10 12:22 am
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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 will make a note of the volumes you mentioned and see if they are available in Germany without too much effort and at reasonable prices. There should be some comic store where I could ask...
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Just a quick word on my potentially misleading use of the word "volume" - in comics they use increase the volume number when they start renumbering the comic, which can be for a bunch of reasons not limited to increasing sales, shifting the style, changing the lead character, internal reality shifts in the universe, etc. It gets confusing since sometimes any of the above can happen and they DON'T renumber too. But the point is, with really long-running comics like Wonder Woman, you get volumes that literally last for decades. Wonder Woman Volume 1 lasted from the 40s to the 80s. Wonder Woman Volume 2 lasted from the late-80s to the mid-2000s; they both have hundreds of issues and many graphic novels. Going to the comic store and asking for Wonder Woman Volume 2 is asking for two decades worth of comic!
So, what might help, is a list of the names of the graphic novels the single comics were collected into:
Simone's graphic novels, in order, are titled (with "Wonder Woman:" preceding them), The Circle, Ends of the Earth, Rise of the Olympian, Warkiller and Contagion. Greg Rucka's are called, Down to Earth, Bitter Rivals, Eyes of the Gorgon, Land of the Dead, Superman: Sacrifice (the OMAC Project) (Yes, that's a Superman book, but it's a crossover with Wonder Woman and includes #219 of her comic and is SUPER important for the run, like it has a PIVOTAL moment in it - though there's a really good recap at the start of the Wonder Woman comic in question, you could probably just read that) and Mission's End.
All of Simone's run (Wonder Woman Vol #3 #14 - 44) is also available for digital purchase at comixology.com.
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Heh! Thanks for pointing this out and giving me the titles of the graphic novels, or I'd probably have made a fool out of myself at the comic bookstore. :)