Ripped from the headlines? Social justice and election shenanigans in Golden Age Wonder Woman
When reading some of Wonder Woman’s earliest stories, I found that sometimes the themes were more than a little relevant to the present day.
When reading some of Wonder Woman’s earliest stories, I found that sometimes the themes were more than a little relevant to the present day.
So I went down a rabbit-hole a while back and I ended up in a weird place. It started innocently enough, with a discussion of General Mills’ monster-themed breakfast cereals, Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, but it somehow ended up with a weird Victorian-era metaphysical cult.
Steve Gerber died far too soon, but we can still read his comics and appreciate him.
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like — hell, most of …