Originally Posted by
Mel Dyer
THIS is why Wonder Woman, in 2016, has a big pile of colorful super-villains, ..but, still doesn't have a viable rogues gallery.
Writer, after writer, keeps forcing Circe down our throats, as if she is Wonder Woman's arch-nemesis; she isn't and never was. What's worse is they do this at the expense of the non-myth-inspired super-villains that writers don't bother to look up, and that WW editors don't push. Perhaps, writers using Circe think that there are so many Circe stories, because fans favor her over the bad guys that you mentioned. If that's the case, editors should care enough to intervene and nudge them toward the other villains, instead of berating us with more Circe - the ugly, purple-haired pizza, nobody ordered.
Seriously...if you are new to this comic, be you writer or reader, please understand that Circe is NOT WW's official arch-nemesis. Know also that her recurring use in WW-related stories has absolutely nothing - NOTHING - to do with demand. I imagine the primary reason that writers use Circe in WW stories, so much, is because the last four or five writers, who came before them, used her, and, because of that, ..Circe stories are easy to find. Even among Circe's biggest fans, we rarely hear arguments that Wonder Woman would be a much better comic, ..if only it had more Circe. No one here is asking for more Circe!
George Perez, who is likely our most well-loved, post-Crisis WW scribe, ripped out Circe's soul and blew her up, at the end of War Of The Gods. At the time, it was the biggest WW comic event that DC Comics had ever published - a multi-issue miniseries - so, I didn't imagine it. Clearly, George was done with her, or at least, done with that version of her; and, if you read WOGs, ..who can blame him?
Furthermore, it makes absolutely no sense why Circe would work with Lex Luthor and Ras Al Ghul. She would consider herself above them.