Timandra looks amazing.
I eagerly await every Amazon profile he posts. I really want to see Antiope, Euboea and (if she's here) Althea the most.
Timandra looks amazing.
I eagerly await every Amazon profile he posts. I really want to see Antiope, Euboea and (if she's here) Althea the most.
So Jimenez said DC announced the book well before he and DeConnick even started, when they asked them not to do that. It put him in a panic and slowed him down even further. He said his editor has been great and DC has been good about not scheduling it until the creative team gives the ok, but I can't blame him for being frustrated. They really shouldn't announce projects of this scope that far in advance.Originally Posted by Hypo;5159418Jimenez will be on David Macho's Dialogos de Comic tomorrow where they'll talk Historia among other things: [url
On the positive side, he loves working with Kelly Sue and says she and Morrison are his favorite scripters. That bodes very well for this project.
Lol how could I forget her.
Yeah I think we should stick to the likes of Philippus, Oenone, Consivia...
Interesting tidbit from a Jimnez interview is apparently he and DeConnick only signed on to do this project a week or so before it getting announced. Apparently it wasn't supposed to be announced but they saw some sample art he had done and announced it anyway.
This explains a lot.
Edit: Beaten to it.
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DC must have been desperate to drum up interest around Black Label, given the amount of delayed or fizzled projects that were announced when it was launched, and the way a lot of projects apparently were rushed.
It's really the opposite of what the label should have been about: quality stories told with lots of creative freedom.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
Given The Other History of the DC Universe was also announced fairly early and didn't get solicited to recently (and Rucka's Diana's Daughter), yeah sounds like this was a problem across multiple projects.
Think Batman: Damned only came out when it did on time was because it had been in development for years.
He didn't but even then his Amazons weren't pigeon holes to a single ethnic name; Hippolyta is Greek, Diana is Roman, Mala is...uh...Indian? Paula is Roman too, but her name is more of a generic (where as Wonder Woman is specifically mentioned after the moon goddess). The thing with Greek names too is that they are very difficult to pronounce by modern audiances, I mean I'm sure most people pronounce Hippo wrong, so when you got a lot of other 'foreign', hard to pronounce character names it will make the reading experience a bit choppier.
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Diana having that name is because Artemis was more well known by her Roman name to American audiences at that time and ties into Marston using the Roman and Greek names interchangeably without much explanation. The later addition of Diana Trevor or (preferably) just having the Amazons be aware of the Roman names and use them as well with a quick explanation is all that's needed. Mala has an Indian name but is a white blonde woman so that's always been weird. Paula doesn't fit but it's fine because she joins the Amazons from our world. Other than them, there are no named Amazons of note from the Marston era except maybe Althea.
I think the Greek names work fine, if not better, because it makes them seem more authentic. As is all the attention to detail in their armor in this version as well as what we are seeing of the Gods. Wonder Woman's world being too myth focused is a problem, but that's not an issue with the Amazons' backstory or the island (where that should be a lot of the focus). It's more of an issue with writers not having much ideas for her adventures once she becomes Wonder Woman that's the problem.