Wondabunga

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Second Edition 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...

Second Edition By Mel Dyer The Wonder Woman  comic is at its best - its most entertaining - with its leading lady, Diana of the Amazons, under fire and rising to a challenge! Game-changing stakes and characters, who challenge her freedom-loving, Bohemian ideals, distinguish her as more than a female Man of Steel; they uniquely define her, ..as Wonder Woman. Certainly, one of the greatest challenges to her Amazonian mettle, ever created, ..has been classical literature's superman, Hercules. I don't think Wonder Woman’s creator, Dr. William Marston or most of the writers, who followed him, have ever fully  reformed Hercules, an alternately quarrelsome, thuggy companion and outright enemy of the Amazing Amazon’s, ..since her launch in World War II. Even 1950s writer/editor Robert Kanigher, after making him one of Diana's fairy godfathers, lending his magical strength to her own, ..typically wrote him, as an unrepentant jerk. Like so many other male supporting characters, who a...

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer In the 1950s, ..while DC Comics was inviting comic fans to emotionally invest in the warm familiarity of Gotham City, Metropolis, Central City, Coast City, Ivy City, Midway City and Gateway City ..and their association with its most popular superheroes - with a super-New York being established for Marvel's - nothing close to that was happening in the  Wonder Woman  comic. Like Aquaman or Thor, she originated from an iconic lost civilization, the Amazons' Paradise Island, and many of Wonder Woman's stories almost always unfolded there, leaving her fans, without the tone-setting, iconic city thing that the fans of so many other popular comics ..have had fifty or sixty years to get attached to. This is where Wonder Woman fans reach the Marston City limits, wherein lies, well... nothing? I think we've got to keep that in perspective. When looking at the too-long missing, regular supporting cast, ..iconic settings, stylized vehicles and weapons,...

The CLOON'RAD-MOORE & COMPANY ERA CAST TOP ROW 1) Dr. Minerva/Cheetah by unknown artist 2) Col. Steve Trevor by Nicola Scott 3) Invisible Jet by Phil Jimenez BOTTOM ROW 4) Wonder Woman by Travis Moore 5) Etta Candy by Cliff Chiang 6) Siegfried (Siggy) by Travis Moore Another Wondabunga collage! Wonder Woman, Etta Candy, Col. Steve, Dr. Minerva and Siegfried? These are the characters that have turned a creative run - writers Michael W. Conrad, Becky Cloonan and Jordie Bellaire, with artist Travis Moore - on WONDER WOMAN, into an ERA. B y now, everybody here and in SPACE knows I'm in LOVE with this CAST! It really takes me back to a time, when comics were just FUN and a bright explosion of joy in a bleak world. The promise of this cast is so GUTSY! On a purely impish, regressive little boy level, I wanna' yell, "Wonder Woman's got a GI JOE dude, a VIKING GOD with a magic sword AND a CHEETAH-MONSTER, over here! Lookit' THIS TEAM!" Any TV show or sci-fi/f...

By Mel Dyer The Siggy-matching on CBR Community has been vicious! For a hot minute, before Cheetah was added to the regular cast of  Wonder Woman  comic, I thought I'd like to see historical geologist Dr. Julia Kapatelis  - next to Etta Candy, the Amazing Amazon's most trusted friend in Man's World - join Etta, Col. Steve and mythical dragonslayer of Germanic mythology,  Siegfried ("Siggy"),  in the book, ..eventually. I felt her age, skills, life experiences and history with Diana might bring a good balance to the narrative. I also thought it would be marvelous, if Siggy was hot for her, since his last real relationship was with a Valkyrie in an opera, ..and he's really, REALLY quite old - thousands of years old, as it would be... And Doc Julia's a paleontologist. Like...a scientist, who studies really old things? She's also a mature woman, ..older than Donna Troy. Sure--eventually, Siggy would probably lose her to Ching or Zeus ... But, for a wh...

TOP ROW 1) Desira, H. G. Peter 2) Invisible Jet, Phil Jimenez 3) "Asteria", Aaron Lopresti 4) Prince Jason, Jesús Merino 5) Queen Hippolyta with Jumpa, Gene Colan 6) Wonder Girl (Cassie), Francis Manapul 7) Fury (Lyta), Jerry Ordway 8) Fury (Helena), Tom Grindberg BOTTOM ROW 9) Hercules, Walt Simonson 10) Shim'Tar, Phil Jimenez 11) The Olympian, Aaron Lopresti 12) Queen Nubia, Jerry Ordway 13) Wonder Woman, Jason Fabok 14) Donna Troy, Jim Lee 15) Wonder Girl (Yara), Joelle Jones 16) Artemis (Requiem), John Byrne 18) Siegfried, Travis Moore Look at this collage! Look at the star-studded list of artists, whose extraordinary talent brought these classic characters to life. Isn't this one of the biggest suitcases of butt-kicking in the DC Comics Universe?! While not as well known, it's as cool, diverse and big, as the costumed families of all them big man-superheroes! Honestly, upon gathering the Wonders together for a family portrait, ..the variety of style and loo...