Originally Posted by
WonderScott
I’m was down with the whole Aristotle Buchanan avatar-of-sorts (I guess), because it played with the myths of gods transforming themselves into mortal forms and messing with mortal lives - despite it being very on-the-nose that it was Ares. The true fun came when Ares didn’t realize Donna Milton was Circe in mortal drag and that they had Lyta together. Rucka had some fun with their relationship, which was great, as again the myths again and again pair gods and other gods, and demigods, and mortals together. The Circe and Ares romance and Lyta could have led to lots of interesting things for Diana, the Amazons, the gods, Ares’s children, Aphrodite, and the DCU, but I guess we’ll leave that up to other creators.
Gods of Gotham was fun and a great intro to Jimenez’s run - it’s about family in so many ways. The Wonder family, the Bat family, the Titans family, the Young Justice family, the Trinity family, and Ares’s family. Ares’s children escaping Tartarus and possession/mingling with Batvillains was fun through that same focus of family - whether loving or dysfunctional by the personality of each individual involved.
Acknowledging the Duke of Deception, Earl of Greed, and Lord Conquest alongside Deimos, Phobos, Eris, Harmonia, Eros, and Eros’s half-sibling Atlantiades just broadens and deepens the villainous or benign relationships between Diana, the Olympians, their kids, and their earthly agents in potentially interesting and dramatic ways.