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By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Little girls have a lot of incentive to identify with superheroic men... Batgirl, Supergirl, Huntress, Hawkgirl, She-Hulk, ..while boys have very little encouragement, identifying with Wonder Woman. Well, it wasn't always that way. Wonder Woman with blingy, Trekxy ride-or-die, Andros of Arcturus (New Adventures Of Wonder Woman, CBS Television) The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman TV show gave us (then) boys, an Andros of Arcturus to imagine ourselves, as! He wasn't as physical or the hardcase that Jack Kirby's cosmic enforcer,  Orion, was, but had some pretty awesome zapping powers and a nifty silver, Star Treky outfit, ..and we thought it was very cool, that he was from outer space, wa-aay back in the Star Wars heyday of 1977. As I recall, the first Andros - General Andros - to join Diana's adventures was father of a second Andros. Andros 2.0 was portrayed, by a much younger and studlier Dack Rambo  - at the time, a young actor, who...

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 - ...

What would the lost, unfinished series bible for a new Wonder Woman show look like? TITLE: IMMORTAL WONDER WOMAN (SERIES BIBLE) [COMPLETE] By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Introduction: This series, using some characters inspired by 'Wonder Woman' comics in 2020-2022 and the award-winning New 52, returns the Immortal Amazon to her original genre roots, as fantasy/paranormal adventurer, ..like TV's Higlander or Lara Croft (Tomb Raider). Think Xena: Warrior Princess and Highlander: The Series had a superhero baby, ..with the friendship between Xena and farmgirl, Gabrielle, at the center of the story - except Gabrielle is fat and black, and there's budding romance, with Col. Steve, ..on the side. Structure and Tone: Episodes will run, as three-act teleplays, introducing an existential threat to the human world ..AND a comedic or dramatic situation, between Diana, Etta and supporting characters (Steve, Mala, Siggy, etc). Most episodes are linear, but, stories can also use POV, mock...

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...