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By Edgar Miraculous Dyer The first TEN issues of  Michael W. Conrad' s,  Becky Cloonan' s and  Travis Moore' s tour on the  Wonder Woman  comic, called  Wonder Woman: Afterworlds,  is an exceptionally written and illustrated literary work - all the more exceptional, ..being a comic book story. I suppose you could call it, " a good start",  since the creative team just wrapped its opening story arc,  Afterworlds,  and is moving swiftly onto its next one, already much anticipated, by fans. However, I think calling it a good  start  diminishes it, somehow. It is, simply put, one of the most entertaining story cycles, to be featured in the  Wonder Woman  comic, in recent memory. It may be said to herald a second Golden Age, in crafting the sort of wildly imaginative, far-flung, pulpy adventures, we haven't seen, since  Mike Sekowsky' s work on the comic, ..in the Mod Era 1970s. Afterworlds  is plain good reading...

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Reading several decades of  Wonder Woman,  from the Golden Age Forties to modern times, I have long thought the comic needed an iconic city like Batman's Gotham or Superman's Metropolis, ..to help define its super-heroic leading lady and even to help writers develop her best stories. Imagine... Sleek, ultra-modern, Californian Gateway City,  ..a quirky, over-militarized  super-Washington  ..or a brand-new Roswell proxy  in America's scenic Southwest - the setting for a second golden age of Wonder Woman stories! I imagine Diana's city being a port city for supernatural beings, ..like classical Amazon freedom-fighters, from a time-lost utopias, Venusian monarchs ..or roguish Asgardians. Like all immigrants, they've come to the city to make a better life for themselves, and Diana should conceivably be the protectress of their hopes for the future. In the middle of all of that, the Advanced Research Group United Support (ARGUS) - a fict...

"...Stam Fine remembers the iconic 70's Wonder Woman TV show starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. It started off set in WWII, then moved networks and the setting was updated to the late 70s (when the show was made) with the same cast..." Presented by Wondabunga 2021 Mel Dyer Edgar Miraculous (Mel) Dyer,  once an  Assistant Editor  of the  Federal Regional Yellow Book,   continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence  in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. H is fine, coyote- hatin '  Goldiweiller ,  Kirby  (now moved on to  that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky)  ..is dead.

From the New York Times "...she had been brought in to try the biggest case of her career: the murder of a Black man on a sunny afternoon by three white men just outside a small city pinned to the South Georgia coastline. Despite the evidence of racism she had at her disposal, Linda Dunikoski, the prosecutor, stunned some legal observers by largely avoiding race during the trial, choosing instead to hew closely to the details of how the three men had chased the Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, through their neighborhood. The risks went beyond her career and a single trial. Failure to convict in a case that many saw as an obvious act of racial violence would reverberate well outside Glynn County, Ga. For some, it would be a referendum on a country that appeared to have made tentative steps last summer toward confronting racism, only to devolve into..." Conviction!  Justice,  for the family of slain jogger,  Ahmaud Arbery ! How did it happen? The restraint of Special Prosecutor Du...

  REVOLUTION      --------------    P   E   R   S   O   N   A   L      D   A   T   A    --------------      Real name:  Donna Darnell-Troy, formerly 'Donna Magna of House Pompeius' Occupation:  Adventurer, Lifestyle blogger, Photojournalist, Royal Princess of the  Amazons Marital Status:  Widowed Known Relatives:  Queen Hippolyta (adoptive mother), Magnus Pius (father), Lady Vonia (mother), Princess Diana - Wonder Woman (sister), Terry Long (husband, deceased), Zeus (godfather),  Queen Antiope (aunt),   Pompeia Magna (sister), Virbius Rex  (cousin), Mala (sister), Daniel, Lord of Dreams (nephew, alternate universe), Nubia (sister), Artemis (sister), Poseidon (uncle), Hunter Prince (future nephew) Base of Operations:  Gateway City, California (USA) and mobile Group Affili...

  By Mel Dyer I think it's a shame that Geoff Johns didn't give an Orion/Diana partnership, a chance.   Conceptually, this worked for me, better than the stale Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor sandwich that we fans have been choking on, since comic's Golden Age... Sty-ana? In  Brian Azzarello's  hands (for fans, certainly not the most trusted hands, at the time he was writing  Wonder Woman ), Orion was Willie Garvin to Diana's Modesty Blaise, who (btw) is also a Greek princess...nothing overtly sexual, between them. We don't really know, if they're boinking. Like Diana and Orion, they're  companions  - does it matter, if they're messing around?   Let people use their bloody imaginations... If we still  have  those. Wonder Woman meets Orion, in DC Comics' New 52 experiment! (Cliff Chiang art) The friendship between the Amazing Amazon and Jack 'King' Kirby's  New Gods  hero, Orion, started with a guardrail orientation of how to trea...

To our fellow KANGALIERS, ..a wild, wondrous and HAPPY ALLHALLOWS and a DAY OF THE DEAD you'll never forget, in 2021... "SIEGFRIED the DRAGON SLAYER" Wonder Woman's got a new, swashbuckling friend, from THOR's hometown, Asgard -  Siegfried,  ex-husband of her Valkyrie enemy, Gudra, ..and DC Comics'  new Viking Avenger!  Cosplay away! (Photomanip: Travis Moore art) Want to KNOW WONDER WOMAN, the way I know Wonder Woman? You've got to get ALL THE WAY down to the...   STAR-SPANGLED PANTIES!