Post Awesome Things Month: Wonder Woman Picspam!

[beccatoria]

Okay, 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:

Comments

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

There continues--even in reading these--to be something about the act of reading comics that I find off-putting, but I wish that weren't the case, because she seems fantastic!!! And the whole thing seems clever and witty and just generally great fun. Except...I just really have a hard time reading spatially. Argh!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Awww, yeah, but I do understand and get it - I do. I struggled to find my footing with reading comics when I first started, and mostly stuck with it because the comic in question was one I really wanted to be reading and it was from the library so I kind of, had a deadline, otherwise I probably would have given up and promised myself to get back to it someday. It really is more different than one might expect. Your eye moves slightly differently over the page - there's the conflict of paying attention to the drawings vs the text. For me it's a great medium now, but I do understand the difficulty it would pose for some. Reading spatially is a good way of putting it - even now I don't think that I'm err, a good native reader of comic books? I still occasionally slip and wonder which panel comes next? But I like the stories enough I keep going.

But yeah, it's a different experience in your mind. So I shall settle for convincing you that she seems fantastic even if I can't also convince you that comics are easy to read. ;)

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that I once wrote a paper about all this. Back when I was doing grad school coursework, I took a course in which we read Art Spiegelman's Maus, and for whatever reason, that's what I decided to write my paper on (even though all the other possibilities were more traditionally written books). And I was particularly interested in the form itself, and the gaps, and I read and cited Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, which is all about how the eye moves over the page, and as I remember, I did pretty well on the paper. But all that has not changed the fact that I still have a rather difficult time reading comics, even if I can intellectually appreciate what they're trying to do. I'm sure practice would help, but feels sort of like a potentially giant hobby, and I'm not really looking to acquire new hobbies right now, especially giant ones. (Other than vidding, apparently.)

On the other hand, Wonder Woman does seem pretty awesome!

(Oh look: appropriate icon is appropriate!)