Wondabunga

By Mel Dyer Sometimes, I don't understand the logic behind writing Wonder Woman, anymore. How this comic can continue to ignore one of its own greatest antagonists, the quasi-mystical, cybernetic mastermind,  Doctor Cyber, in an age of internet, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, just ..ASTOUNDS me! At what point are the myth and magic and pretensions to classicism in the Wonder Woman comic, overkill ..or missing the mark? It's the Information Age, and writer, after writer, consigns Wonder Woman to hack her way through one column of witches and krakens, after another! Has anyone on  Wonder Woman 's creative team seen the Terminator films of the late 80s or the Resident Evil films, which have been so immensely popular in recent years? Can leaving zombie-creating,  Boba Fett'ish,  bounty hunter, the  Bushmaster,  ..and  Doctor Cyber,  who is basically, a female Darth Vader,  ..in editorial mothballs, be justified, in a comic tha...

By Mel Dyer Villainous Lex Luthor stalked Superman out of World War II and into superhero comics' Silver Age, just as the Joker of the Fifties clown-danced the Batman into the infamous, camp-crazed Sixties, ..and a groovy Green Goblin bedeviled Spider-Man into the Bronze Age Seventies. All the while, Wonder Woman, trailed by a caravan of bizarre, rainbow-colored and deservedly obscure baddies, since the Golden Age of comics - that's World War II - remained terminally nemesis-less. That was the deal, until DC Comics movie producer and comic writer/editor, Geoff Johns, gave us the multi-comic crossover event, Darkseid War! Enter  Myrina Black.  She has a lair. [A lair!] Like Wonder Woman, Myrina, a mythical Amazon from real-world, classical literature, is a quirky genre-mix of heroic fantasy magic and sci-fi strange - a superhumanly strong, physical match, tailor-made for scraps with the Amazing Amazon! More obsessive, than malevolent, she checks the classic super...