Originally Posted by
Silvanus
I don't know if I'd go as far as calling it "horrible," but what's odd about liking puns and disliking this line? The line isn't a pun, as far as I can see. A pun is a a play on words, with some kind of double meaning.
Azz's first pun, "sun of a king," told me something how self-involved and narcissistic Apollo is; he didn't even care that the pun would sail right over the heads of the oracles-to-be. What does the use of the phrase "feminine injustice" say about Wonder Woman? If anything, it might tell us that she is not very articulate and would probably describe "injustice against women" as "feminine injustice"; but more likely, it tells us nothing about the character, but only shows something about the writing. (I say "writing," not "writer"; she could improve!)
Lots of people like Shakespeare's puns; that doesn't mean that to be consistent they have to like all sloppy, imprecise word choices. Whether the phrase "vegetative injustice" is sloppy and imprecise can be up for debate--and if it doesn't bother you, great. But I don't think it makes any sense to assume that if people like puns, they shouldn't find certain other word choices annoying. There's no contradiction there. Many Shakespearean scholars love puns--you would almost have to love puns to be a Shakeperean scholar, I think--but they tend to be picky about sloppy, uncrafted language.
What bothered me more than this one odd bit of diction, though, was the cliches and the generally bland, unremarkable, unoriginal language. "Now I feel like I'm being pulled in a thousand different directions...just when I start to think I'm getting control in one area of my life, another falls apart...I still can't be in two places at once...No matter what I choose, I'll still be letting someone down." Could there be a less original, more boring way to express these thoughts? I'm not sure that there could. It's a shame, because the idea are interesting; work-life balance is a terrific theme for a comic about a feminist icon. But the writing itself is not interesting at all, in my opinion.
The reverse may also be true; some who intensely disliked Azz's run may be liking this one for the ISA Factor: I'ts Not Azaarello. That's not objective either. But then, honestly, what does objectivity have to do with whether or not we like a comic book?
As for "the poor lady"--she seems like a likeable person and I hope she ends up having a good run and a good career in comics. But she also deserves to be taken seriously and to have her work critiqued honestly, just as Azz did.