Wondabunga

by Edgar Miraculous Dyer Wonder Woman fans talk about her enemies, the most recurring chuckleheads of her rogue's gallery, ..a lot. There are a lot of them, frankly, but, I think her worst enemy, her arch-nemesis, should be special. Not just another bloody bank-robber...y'know? Wonder Woman's archenemy should be a specific threat to what is most important to Wonder Woman, on some personal or cosmic level, ..and not just a bad lady. The arch should be doing something that puts her squarely in the path of the hero's mission. These two have to come to blows. Theirs is a fight that must happen. There must be a universal understanding, among fans or the audience, that their enmity is inevitable, and that the consequences will be far-reaching and ultimately will change a status quo. It should be understood by all that they were born for this singular conflict, such that it takes on an almost meta-mythical importance, in the world. The archenemy is the villain, our hero

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer I am too long, from Mars. I want to go back. I love George Perez, as an artist and a comic book legend, ..but, his post-Crisis, Diet Vader, Ares,  just isn't doing it, for me, anymore, as a Number One Badguy (one of three) for Wonder Woman. I miss Mars. I want Mars, back. There was a time, in the Forties, when Wonder Woman's most enduring enemy, the Greek god of war, went by his Roman name, Mars,  ..and ran his divine business out of a network of smoke-ridden, fire-belching, metal fortresses, on the surface of the fabled Red Planet, named for him. His cosmic agents, his 'Court' of War - Duke of Deception, Earl of Greed, Lord Conquest and General Destruction - were little more, than armored buffoons, back then, and were never particularly awesome or terrifying, ..but, they were every bit, as ugly and weird, as the Joker. They existed in a fiery, steampunky world - an industrial hell, like Jack Kirby's Apokolips - blackened by the smoke

  Happy Birthday, Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 - May 2, 1947) Mel Dyer,  without his fine, coyote- hatin '  Goldiweiller ,  Kirby  (now moved on to  that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky)  continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. He has been an active member of the Latino Culture Council of the Capitol Area ( El Consejo de Cultura Latina – La Zona del Capitolio ) and the Kiwanis Club of Capitol Hill.

VIRBIUS REX      --------------    P   E   R   S   O   N   A   L      D   A   T   A    --------------      Real name:  Virbius Rex Nemorensis, formerly Hippolitus or 'Hunter Prince' Secret File art:  Lorkalt on Deviantart.com (above) Occupation: Adventurer, Virbius (immortal king) of  Aricia and Nemi Marital Status: Married Known Relatives: Egeria (wife), Queen Antiope (mother), Queen Hippolyta (aunt), Princess Diana - Wonder Woman (cousin), Theseus (father), Menalippus (half-brother), Demophon (half-brother), Molpadia (half-sister or cousin), Poseidon (grandfather), Hunter Prince (future younger cousin) Base of Operations: enchanted forests of Aricia Group Affiliation:  Kingdom of Nemi and the Amazons of Themiscyra Height: Tall Eyes: Dark Hair: Black Notable Appearances: Wonder Woman, Volume Two,  Issue #33 (1989); The Bull From The Sea, by Mary Renault; Hippolytus, a play by Euripides      --------------    H   I   S   T   O   R   Y    --------------      Classical