I thought both stories were off to a promising start, though I am a little more intrigued by Nubia’s. She clearly has a connection to other god’s considering her “Aunt Nancy”, so that has definitely piqued my interest.
I thought both stories were off to a promising start, though I am a little more intrigued by Nubia’s. She clearly has a connection to other god’s considering her “Aunt Nancy”, so that has definitely piqued my interest.
I loved this scene! I'd be down for more Diana and Bruce interaction if he was written like this and they focused on them as friends with no ship teasing. I HATE the ship, but love them as friends.
Kind of like in a Brave and the Bold issue written by Gerry Conway, where Bruce bumped into Diana Prince at a party and they were casually going to get drinks or something after. It's much easier to buy Diana being close to Bruce when he's written like his Bronze Age self. I'd rather not see him written into the books too much, but if he shows up, better to do it this way than basing it off the post-Frank Miller models.
Somehow Diana fighting Darkseid was not as exciting as Nubia fighting Grail. The second story was better to me overall.
I liked the Nubia story a lot. I am glad they included an entire 20 page 'backup' story for an extra $2 because I would have been a bit underwhelmed if it was just the main Diana story. I'd like to see McKinney get a chance to do more with Nubia.
Yes, the writer said that the only way she was going to write Nubia was to reclaim that origin.
This character is brand new to me so I am just taking this story as is (is the aunt someone known to other readers here?), but I know the writer was championing her original origin story so hopefully we will see it explained in more detail somewhere down the line. I am a little iffy on Diana's origin at this point anyway, so I am open to them going however they want to with the Great Reset of Death Metal.
Mostly that was because the first one was too melancholy and monologue heavy. Then after Diana clearly wanted the Amazons to escape, she acquiesced and decided to fight with them, however that required yet another page long rallying speech from her that rang hollow, because it was the opposite of what she wanted to do in the first place. She basically was contradicting herself.
I think the Aunt Nancy isn't really related to Nubia but is Anansi the Spider in disguise. Anansi is the god of Knowledge/Stories and she tells Nubia she loves stories, plus the name is so obviously a pun.
Lol, I would not be surprised if the Great Reset retconned Nubia to be Diana's twin instead of Jason. I can't see them going back to Diana being made of clay since the Wonder Woman movies are sticking to the daughter of Zeus origin, and a lot of people see her like that now. Originally Nubia was Diana's twin because Hippolyta sculpted her out of the same clay as Diana at the same time. But I could also see them being half sisters in this new continuity.
That could make sense. I decided to look up Anansi (I was vaguely familiar from Neil Gaiman stories) and there does not seem to be anything to suggest Anansi takes a female form, but Aunt Nancy is a name used for him and there was a female portrayal on a Syfy show recently by Jasmine Guy (now I have a voice in my head for the character too).
DC will really be stupid to retire the "Immortal Wonder Woman" title after Future State. Its such a good name for a title!
Sadly, Grail's motivation has rarely been articulated by WW writers, since her inception in Darkseid War. According to her mother Myrina, she is the living embodiment of the Anti-life Equation, the terminal end of all free will in the Universe. Conceivably, she should have the power to control the minds of sentient beings or turn people into zombie armies, like another WW super-villain, who is totally wasted in the WW comic, ..Bushmaster. However, since most writers just make her a silver-skinned Super-Woman.
As Wonder Woman is an Amazon, foresworn to fight for freedom and peace of all mankind, Grail is her perfect nemesis, ..a natural enemy for a superheroine with no natural enemy. I can't help, but think, what a perennial enmity between Grail and Diana might have been like, ..if only the writers bothered to read or understand Grail's backstory and motivation. I guess she'll do, as well, for Nubia, under the circumstances.
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