The Other History of the DC Universe & Diana

[Frank]

Newsarama has a great interview with John Ridley, writer of The Other History of the DC Universe. If you weren't already planning to read it, the interview might make you want to, and if not Ridley's words, the awesome art (especially the layouts!) might persuade you.

Anyway, one of the moments he's touching on in one of the five issues is Diana killing Max Lord. When I first read that, my reaction was, as it always is, "Why can't that story go away?" But as I read on, later in the interview it becomes clear that he's not going to be looking at it from a "Was she right or wrong?" way. Rather, Ridley says:

This may not be straight with the Justice League, but when Wonder Woman did kill Max Lord and she's like, 'I got to do what I got to do. I'm a warrior and I'm going to do it.' People freaked out about that, and that's something that we do talk about in this series. Did they freak out because Wonder Woman did it, or did they freak out because a woman killed a man on live TV? There are other male heroes killing male heroes.

I've been excited for this series, and the interview makes it sound like it's going to deliver on it's promise of multifarious perspectives.

[Gaius]

Interesting interview, most of this has gone by me since I haven’t been paying much attention to BL news outside of Historia. Might check this out.

Don’t recall Rucka explicitly bringing up Diana being singled out because she was a woman killing a man but I recall he did bring up what hypocrites Clark, Bruce, and general populace were for playing moral high ground.

[Stanlos]

I just hope that TOHOTDCU looks at it with the complexity that the author provided rather than the schlock fest the bygone PTB demanded. Now that there is this so called "OMNIVERSE" where we can explore any story verse I hope that Rucka gets to do 12 issue limited series exploring the path he originally intended paired with a consistent superstar artist. I really hope they do it since she never got her FOR TOMORROW or HUSH. I don't think it has to be with Jim Lee.

DC proved John Byrne's assessment of their doing the snap to be 100% true.

[LordUltimus]

I know it won't happen, but I'd honestly enjoy it if Nubia was a part of this. Her outside perspective on race in America would be really interesting, and it would affect her in a way it wouldn't with Diana.

[Stanlos]

I know it won't happen, but I'd honestly enjoy it if Nubia was a part of this. Her outside perspective on race in America would be really interesting, and it would affect her in a way it wouldn't with Diana.

Ooooooooooooooo that IS a delicious idea!! And it could be a nice callback to the Perez run when Philippus and other Amazons shared their views on race and sexuality

[Frontier]

I mean, personally I think the freakout was more because it was Wonder Woman that did it rather than her gender, because people would probably freak out if Superman snapped a dude's neck (cough)Zod(cough) but I understand where Ridley is coming from.