Like it: It's my favorite version of the character.
It's okay: Just another version of the character.
Don't particularly care for it, but tolerate it.
Hate it!
LoL.....but with Dr. Poison and I, it's the reverse. I'm a fan of the character so I'm using her name as my screen-name to help create awareness of her. I certainly wouldn't ever depict her to look anything like me. As for the WAres being a public domain character, that's correct. Azz didn't create him and we have no idea who did so I don't think any creator should have WAres look like him, even if they put a somewhat different spin on the character. What's next? Big Bear of the Forever People looking like a dead-wringer of Dan Didio?
Thanks for your explanation on Cassandra and Nemesis although I think it will be the version we saw in the Odyssey or something very similar(not that I was hoping to see her again this soon).
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
Heh. Well, you're attaching her name to yourself (or at least, to your posting persona), and Azz is attaching himself (or at least, his appearance) to War's name. Same difference. I don't see why calling yourself by someone else's name is less of an appropriation than letting someone be drawn in a way that looks like you. (And I mean no criticism--I'm using the name of a Roman woodland god, after all, even if I am only doing it because it has the letters s-l-v-n in it. And I just found out that this may even be a little like calling myself Ares or Mars, because there was at least one classical reference to the god "Mars Silvanus").
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I always enjoy reading your well thought-out posts and generally agree. But there's something deliciously sinister about Ares training a young Diana, especially if it's done in secret. I grew up with the "no men on PI rule," so it also seems wrong having Ares on the island--but wrong can be so good. Lol. And now that you mention it, Lex being some sort of mentor to young Clark could work too. I think it's because I crave irony in fiction. And how ironic would it be if Clark's mentor is actually a bad guy who ends up being SM's arch foe.
Fav Wonder Woman traits: Strength, Compassion, Love...never holds a petty grudge. Xo
Except Ares never ended up Diana's arch enemy.
If he had mentored her as a child and she rejected the mantle of god of war so that he declared her his enemy in the end, that would have worked for me.
But, to continue the analogy, Lex not only is Clark's science teacher but also a father figure who never becomes a bad guy.
Sorta lacks something, imo.
Absolutely. This I def agree with. Ares mentoring Diana works perfectly if she eventually rejects the god of war title and he becomes her arch foe. It even works a lot better than the Clark/Lex example because Clark already has two fathers in Pa Kent and Jor-el...adding a third father-figure is overkill. But the nu-52 Diana grew up thinking she was made from clay and most could understand how she might want a father figure (if it's not sacrilegious to say that about Amazons, lol), which a manipulative Ares could easily take advantage of.
Fav Wonder Woman traits: Strength, Compassion, Love...never holds a petty grudge. Xo
Somewhere between the top 2 options.