Wonder Woman - General Discussion

[Primal Slayer]

4/12 Wonder Woman Earth One Annotations Part 2

"Nubia was introduced in a 1973 story from Wonder Woman #204, where she was revealed to be Diana’s long-lost twin. She’s depicted here as Hippolyta’s bodyguard, lover, second-in-command, and the power behind the throne (a role taken by the later character Phillipus – but I prefer Nubia)."

Suxh a weird choice

[Agent Z]

What jobs should some of the Wonders have in Mans World?

Donna - she already has a job in photography
Diana - varies between if she has a secret id or not
Cassie - jobless
Yara - jobless
Nubia - she stays in Queen/diplomat full time
Artemis - jobless though....she likely just cashes in on priceless artifacts/gold

Diana usually does have a job as an ambassador even when her identity is public.

I could see Artemis or Yara running an antique shop.

[Agent Z]

"Nubia was introduced in a 1973 story from Wonder Woman #204, where she was revealed to be Diana’s long-lost twin. She’s depicted here as Hippolyta’s bodyguard, lover, second-in-command, and the power behind the throne (a role taken by the later character Phillipus – but I prefer Nubia)."

Suxh a weird choice

Sounds like they basically treated two different black characters as interchangeable because they preferred one over the other.

I decided the Amazons still harboured a subconscious fear and horror of men and what they’re capable of, and a kind of disdain for the women of Man’s World who have allowed themselves to be subjugated. Diana is the first to overcome this fear and scorn and by doing so she ends the stasis and changes the world.

Calling it a "subconscious fear" is rather questionable given the first pages of volume one show - in exploitative detail - what the Amazons endured at the hands of men but Morrison shows no real interest in unpacking that.

I’ll admit I’ve always struggled with the idea that Diana began life as a clay statue of a child given life. It made her feel like a golem, a Pinocchio, rather than a living character. I overlooked the ‘given life’ bit to focus on the pottery aspect.

My first impulse, then, was to ditch the clay origin. Here, recalling this story’s origins in a film pitch, I wanted Hollywood style inner conflict where it’s revealed that Diana is in some sense the daughter of the hated Hercules…

Remember, Gail Simone parodied this mindset in her Wonder Woman run years before DC decided to make Diana having a father canon.

Somewhere in the middle of writing Volume 1, I realised I preferred the feminist myth of parthenogenetic female reproduction where Hippolyta models an ideal daughter in clay, which is then animated by the gods. It’s feminist Adam and Eve! Wonder Woman should be no man’s daughter!

I had to reconcile these impulses in this new iteration. The truth is revealed that Hippolyta combined her eggs with the seed of Hercules in her genetic weaving laboratory, sculpting Diana into life on a science fiction ‘potter’s wheel’.

And you couldn't just use the original clay version because...?

If this book had been written in the 1990s by Rob Liefeld or Brian Pulido, I suspect it would have far less defenders. As it stands, it's an embarrassment on the Wonder Woman ip and quite inferior to Historia in every way.