Originally Posted by
Mel Dyer
You've got a marvelous idea for Hercules, Bat.
As I mentioned in another thread, there's more than one myth-inspired interpretation of Hercules. Our community generally ignores Brian Azzarello's 'sex pirate' Amazons, Finch's brother-murdering Amazons or mythology's man-exploiting, child-abandoning Amazons, ..while insisting Hercules can only be a rapist. Then, we remind each other that DC's Hercules should be a villain (surely, the stupidest of WW's villains), because Marvel Comics' Hercules is heroic. It's very obviously a political issue with some of us here (not me, though), and we have to accept that there are those among us who will never accept Hercules, no matter what the best writers do with him, ..simply because he is unapologetically traditionally masculine.
George Perez presented 'Heracles' as a rapist and enslaver of Amazons, wrote a story that punished him for his crimes, showed the Amazons forgiving him in that story, ..after which he wrote another story showing him honoring a promise to fight beside the Amazons and leading them into battle against a mass-murdering, man-drugging, megalomaniacal Circe. Ignoring almost all of that, ALL from George, ..we (not me) settle on that one part of Perez's story, vilifying and rightly punishing him, exclusively as a rapist.
Hope you hold onto your idea, continue to share it with us ..and ignore the man-hating politics, which Wonder Woman, in any incarnation, would have no part of.