Its one of those storylines that could be interesting to explore as Diana turning into the opposite of what she is about brings plenty of storylines for her. Makes for a good arc in a tv/animated series.
Great period! Diana should be God of War all over again!
Nice idea, but could have been done better. Bring it back but do it differently.
It was a good idea, but it has been explored enough and doesn't need to come back.
Terrible idea from the get-go. Forget it ever happened and move on.
Its one of those storylines that could be interesting to explore as Diana turning into the opposite of what she is about brings plenty of storylines for her. Makes for a good arc in a tv/animated series.
I remember thinking at the time it might be cool, but all that happened was it made her cry blood sometimes and get a cool helmet but it looked bad on Wonder Woman.
And there was that one story arc where the Goddess of peace became the Goddess of war because Diana refused to start wars. Interesting story premise but the execution was meh.
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What's more badass, than Diana, as God of War? Diana, friend of Etta, Mala, Steve, Desira, Ching and Sigfried - a supporting cast; that's what!
Let's not be too hard on Brian, though, when even most of WW's modern fans don't understand why she needs a jet. She needs a jet, because she's got some seriously badass, ride-or-die friends, who would literally follow her into Hell, on a kanga - that's why! She's not Xena or Wolverine, trying to do everything alone, because that is not the Amazon way, and, sometimes, we don't get that, because some very pessimistic times have made us think needing others is uncool...not dark enough.
That's why writers keep getting Diana, her motivation and her non-existent archenemies, all wrong.
The lone, dark, relentless knight stalking the darkness...it's such a macho power fantasy, as a narrative. It's Wolverine and the Batman. It's not and never should be Wonder Woman, ..and, we laugh at her jet and dismiss her fat friend, because we don't understand that.
To a freedom-loving Amazon, your friends - your sisters - are your power AND your armor; they're your whole world, what you're fighting for and willing to lay down your life to protect. Wonder Woman, without Etta and the rest of her kanga-or-die crew, is nothing, ..a wonderless woman.
Diana goes to war, as mortal or goddess, because of who the Amazons made her, ..and who her friends make her. Being an all-powerful goddess of truth, war or guacamole is nothing, if you can't get that part of her right.
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COMBINING THE BIGBADITUDE OF THANOS WITH CHEETAH'S FEROCITY, IS JANUS WONDER WOMAN'S GREATEST SUPERVILLAIN?...on WONDABUNGA!!! Look alive, Kangaliers!
Of course we should be hard on Azz, because he took Diana's origin, and instead of making something breathrough like Perez, we got the junk that he crapped out, for what, 36 issues?
Azz should get all the negative accolades for his run, because it was more divisive than anything I have read in a while. I quit the series and Wonder Woman for a long time at about issue 25. I just couldn't buy his drivel anymore.
I thought that fact that Azzarello made such a big change as making Diana the God of War and then jumping ship afterwards leaving the next creative team to deal with it to be very bad writing. It's like he purposely set the house on fire and left the fire department to deal with it.
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And thats not even going into the bit establishing how the Azzarellos take on the Amazons would trade any male children born from these rapes into slavery in exchange for swords because this take was so primitive and backwater that the concept of metallurgy was beyond their comprehension.
If someone offers themself to someone who willingly accepts that offer(unless someone has another page that suggests that those sailors were not willingly taking part...)?
That is not the person who accepted said offer being raped.
I get that plenty of folks are not fans of the run.
Doesn't really change that you have to bring something that is not actually on that page to get anywhere near those sailors being victims of rape.