Originally Posted by
Mel Dyer
TEN was so-ooo hard...seriously!
Eliminating Circe, when it came down to Circe or Clea, was almost ..paralytic. The real contest for me, I suppose, was deciding that I had to choose which sorceress enemy was more interesting to me: Circe, as brilliantly and chillingly revised by the JLD comic, ..or Queen of Fables. I chose the Queen, pretty early on, leaving a final contest between Circe and Clea ..for one spot. At the end, I decided Diana needed a Per Degaton or Vandal Savage conqueror type to threaten her Amazon love of championing freedom...
And, for my money, Clea was that foe. It also helped that Clea could punch Diana through a mountain, at will, with her bare hands...really mess her up.
At the risk of having a very short thread, I'm going to carry on with the ten survivor premise and see how it goes. The point of this elimination game is to determine, once and for all, who, without revision or embellishment, ..is the baddest of the bad, among the Wonder-rogues? Who, driven by their sheer hatred of Wonder Woman, will still be standing, after the worst thing ever kills the rest?
We spend so much time re-imagining the Wonder-bads, I would really like to see who, among them, are perceived as Diana's natural and essential enemies...the not-to-be-missed ones. Who, among them, best defines who Wonder Woman, in the way that Luthor and the Joker define their arch-enemies?
If we broaden the list so that all of the well-known rogues survive, we basically have the status quo. I want to raise the stakes and throw off a few, ..just to see who sicks. Enjoy (I hope) and good luck!