KILLBILLEUS 2: WHY TYNION'S CIRCE IS STILL THE TORMENTED, IMPLACABLE DRACULA OF WONDER WOMAN'S ROGUES
By Edgar Miraculous Dyer With DC Comics' Rebirth publishing event in 2021, Greg Rucka's award-winning Wonder Woman reboot re-introduced us to the Immortal Amazon's enduring witch foe, Circe, ..re-imagined as a quirky, Doctor Who'ish creature, trolling the space-time continuum from her mystical and inter-dimensional palace, Aeaea! I have and have had, since the 80s, a real problem accepting a generic sorceress as Wonder Woman's archnemesis, if only because I don't see 'fighting magic [?]' ..as a rationale for Wonder Woman's presence in the world of mortal men - that's NOT why she left her Paradise Island! Besides that, I just don't like sorceress antagonists much and never have. What does a world, conquered by Circe or any other sorceress, look like, anyway? Why should Wonder Woman or anyone fear it? Is it wild boar falling from the sky? Global chocolate shortage? All of humanity lost in a violent nightmare, she'll never let...
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