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General discussion (archive)Comic book fans: check out the new Wonder Woman(60 posts)(60 posts)
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Posted March 30, 2011
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Wraith: Hey, Wonder Woman! FUCK YOU!
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reaver894: Region locked vid
Possibly fixed.

Now where did I park my visible jet? Oh yeah, THERE IT IS.
Posted March 31, 2011
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reaver894: Region locked vid
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Wraith: Possibly fixed.

Now where did I park my visible jet? Oh yeah, THERE IT IS.
Okay... That made me laugh :-)
Post edited March 31, 2011 by HoneyBakedHam
Posted March 31, 2011
it looks like a fan costume made for a convention.
Posted March 31, 2011
She's cute, dig the lips.
Posted March 31, 2011
According to myth, amazons had one of their breasts cut to improve their bow skill. Maybe they use rifles nowadays?
Posted March 31, 2011
I always found Wonder Woman to be exploitation masquerading as empowerment, rather like the Spice Girls with Girl Power. Though the pic of the current Wonder Woman outfit in the comics the OP put up looks better, I particularly like the jacket.
Posted March 31, 2011
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FlintlockJazz: I always found Wonder Woman to be exploitation masquerading as empowerment, rather like the Spice Girls with Girl Power. Though the pic of the current Wonder Woman outfit in the comics the OP put up looks better, I particularly like the jacket.
Depends how she is portrayed. She has certainly meandered between the two over her history. I think the Wonder Woman in the Bruce Timm Justice League cartoon got the balance right. She was also rather good in the animated movie Justice League: New Frontier.
Posted March 31, 2011
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FlintlockJazz: I always found Wonder Woman to be exploitation masquerading as empowerment, rather like the Spice Girls with Girl Power. Though the pic of the current Wonder Woman outfit in the comics the OP put up looks better, I particularly like the jacket.
The creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston (pen name Charles Moulton), was a polygamist psychologist with a penchant for bondage. Wonder Woman wasn't really exploitation masquerading as empowerment, it was Marston's own bondage fantasy (a powerful woman, likes to tie up her enemies with a lasso, only weakness is being bound herself, etc.).

Fun fact: William Moulton Marston is also credited as one of the inventors of the polygraph, the real "lasso of truth".
Post edited March 31, 2011 by cogadh
Posted March 31, 2011
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cogadh: Fun fact: William Moulton Marston is also credited as one of the inventors of the polygraph, the real "lasso of truth".
Except it's so much bunk there's even a congressional act protecting you from having to take one (The Employee Polygraph Protection Act); of course it includes an exclusion for the government, which is why the NSA and the like can still use it. Polygraph results are not generally admissible in court, either.

Interesting facts about Wonder Woman, though.
Posted March 31, 2011
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Arkose: Superman has had multiple rewrites; each time his powers get reset back to a more sensible level, but as the run goes on the writers want to put him in increasingly epic situations by throwing bigger and bigger villains at him (especially if they want the series climax to involve saving all of reality or whatever) so end up sequentially bumping his powers right back up to ludicrous levels (including "breathing" in space by holding his breath indefinitely).
The bottom line is: they can't save the character from himself.
Posted March 31, 2011
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Arkose: Superman has had multiple rewrites; each time his powers get reset back to a more sensible level, but as the run goes on the writers want to put him in increasingly epic situations by throwing bigger and bigger villains at him (especially if they want the series climax to involve saving all of reality or whatever) so end up sequentially bumping his powers right back up to ludicrous levels (including "breathing" in space by holding his breath indefinitely).
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Navagon: The bottom line is: they can't save the character from himself.
They just make fun of him now, by putting him side by side with Bruce Wayne/Batman, a much more compelling character. He gets called "Boy Scout" a lot, in the most denigrating of ways.
Posted March 31, 2011
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orcishgamer: They just make fun of him now, by putting him side by side with Bruce Wayne/Batman, a much more compelling character. He gets called "Boy Scout" a lot, in the most denigrating of ways.
Superman really should just have stayed dead, really. I don't see the merit in a character that powerful and even with the rewrites he's still out of date.
Posted March 31, 2011
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Arkose: Superman has had multiple rewrites; each time his powers get reset back to a more sensible level, but as the run goes on the writers want to put him in increasingly epic situations by throwing bigger and bigger villains at him (especially if they want the series climax to involve saving all of reality or whatever) so end up sequentially bumping his powers right back up to ludicrous levels (including "breathing" in space by holding his breath indefinitely).
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Navagon: The bottom line is: they can't save the character from himself.
Well, they did try to save him from himself many times, but the age of the character keeps working against him. The basic premise is Superman gets his powers from absorbing yellow sun light, but he's not like a battery with a maximum capacity, instead he just keeps absorbing. In his daily life, he can't possibly expend enough energy to keep his power level at a reasonable level, so he continually grows more and more powerful all the time. After 50+ years of comics, even if they aren't stories in "real time", he should be beyond god-like by now. To counter this, they have re-set his history and done story lines where his energy gets leeched off (usually by magic, his only other weakness), or his absorption rate goes out of control and he has to go to S.T.A.R. labs and get them to invent something that sucks away some of his power (which Lex Luthor will then proceed to steal and use as a weapon against the Big Blue), or they send him somewhere with a red sun so that he can use up some of his energy before going back to Earth to start charging again... in a pinch they just do a Parasite story. Basically, what was supposed to be a built-in flaw in the character (constantly growing power requires constantly stricter control) has become a major flaw in the story telling that the writers just can't seem to get away from.
Posted March 31, 2011
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orcishgamer: They just make fun of him now, by putting him side by side with Bruce Wayne/Batman, a much more compelling character. He gets called "Boy Scout" a lot, in the most denigrating of ways.
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Navagon: Superman really should just have stayed dead, really. I don't see the merit in a character that powerful and even with the rewrites he's still out of date.
For the same reasons I don't think Captain America is a good character anymore, both were written for what you'd consider 40s-50s sensibilities. Yes, I agree, they had an acceptable ending for him, they should have kept it that way.
Posted March 31, 2011
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cogadh: Basically, what was supposed to be a built-in flaw in the character (constantly growing power requires constantly stricter control) has become a major flaw in the story telling that the writers just can't seem to get away from.
Well they've used many explanations for his powers over the years. No matter how many times they change it they're going to run into problems like this. It doesn't really address the biggest problem of there not being a lot of point to the character though.
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orcishgamer: For the same reasons I don't think Captain America is a good character anymore, both were written for what you'd consider 40s-50s sensibilities. Yes, I agree, they had an acceptable ending for him, they should have kept it that way.
Ideally they should stick to heroes that are relevant to the age we're living in. The reason Batman still works is because he's flawed and potentially vulnerable. There's also a nice array of gadgets and bad guys too.
Post edited March 31, 2011 by Navagon
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