WW#6 Preview, Review and Spoilers discussion

[Frontier]

And she's been in the US for years and most people don't write her that way.

King just writes a very stiff Wonder Woman.

[Dr. Poison]

I feel like King is writing Diana similar to how Perez & Jimenez did. He said that he took influences from those runs so that might be why.

[SonOfBaldwin]

Giganta's entrance is truly terrifying. It brought back a childhood scare that people of a certain age from the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area will remember: https://youtu.be/Ux3laLkueZk?si=fpxwksNG047vHvYI

Though, given his fascination with film, I'm sure Tom King's inspiration was the ending of Cabin in the Woods: https://youtu.be/aoJSNjH0EjQ?si=wTZW8PzQpQK-Kgl7&t=494

[Koriand'r]

It reminded me of "The Gilded Age" where the hand of the Statue of Liberty is in the middle Central Park and you get a true sense of it's enormous scale.

[HestiasHearth]

Giganta's entrance is truly terrifying. It brought back a childhood scare that people of a certain age from the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area will remember: https://youtu.be/Ux3laLkueZk?si=fpxwksNG047vHvYI

Though, given his fascination with film, I'm sure Tom King's inspiration was the ending of Cabin in the Woods: https://youtu.be/aoJSNjH0EjQ?si=wTZW8PzQpQK-Kgl7&t=494

I definitely thought of Cabin in the Woods' last scene when I saw the panel...

[phonogram12]

I'm reminded that Diana's speech thing here is cause King is writing her as someone whose English isn't their first language.

So the stilted way of speaking and lack of contractions is supposed to be intentional on part of the writer.

Yeah, my mom's been living in the States for more than 50 years and still kinda talks this way, so it makes sense.

[Frontier]

I feel like King is writing Diana similar to how Perez & Jimenez did. He said that he took influences from those runs so that might be why.

Jiminez' Diana sounded a lot more natural by comparison to King.

It's not even like she's the only character who sounds kind of stiff under his pen.

[phonogram12]

Well, natural is subjective, I suppose. Like as has already been mentioned, there are ESL people that do sound very similar.

[LordUltimus]

I guess the real problem isn't that King isn't writing Diana unrealistically (robotic, perhaps, but that goes with most of his characters), but that he's writing her in a way that she isn't usually written.

It's like if Superman was written to speak in a Kansas accent - sure, people from Kansas and especially small towns in Kansas speak like that, but we don't typically think of Superman talking in a Kansas accent.

[Frontier]

Well, natural is subjective, I suppose. Like as has already been mentioned, there are ESL people that do sound very similar.

I think it's just more a quirk of Kings' writing.

[Mantis-Ray]

I guess the real problem isn't that King isn't writing Diana unrealistically (robotic, perhaps, but that goes with most of his characters), but that he's writing her in a way that she isn't usually written.

It's like if Superman was written to speak in a Kansas accent - sure, people from Kansas and especially small towns in Kansas speak like that, but we don't typically think of Superman talking in a Kansas accent.

Superman speaking with a country accent is pretty funny. Someone should try that in something, at least just for the novelty, like Supes encountering a version of himself that speaks country.

[Agent Z]

I feel like King is writing Diana similar to how Perez & Jimenez did. He said that he took influences from those runs so that might be why.

I find it questionable he's taking influence from either of those runs since he supposedly didn't know who Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis were.

[Dr. Poison]

I find it questionable he's taking influence from either of those runs since he supposedly didn't know who Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis were.

Vanessa as the Silver Swan was just in issue #5 so I don't think that's accurate.

[SonOfBaldwin]

It reminded me of "The Gilded Age" where the hand of the Statue of Liberty is in the middle Central Park and you get a true sense of it's enormous scale.

I remember this episode! I love me some The Gilded Age! I live in NYC, so it's always fascinating to see the Statue of Liberty in its original copper rather than its oxidized state.

[I'm a Fish]

I find it questionable he's taking influence from either of those runs since he supposedly didn't know who Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis were.

In an interview, he said he started with George Perez.

I think he just read everything else and forgot who they were, lol.