Making your hero a sexist is not brilliant characterization
I wasn’t at all a fan of the New 52 Wonder Woman, but the book’s handling of Orion brought it to rock bottom When Orion shows up to join forces …
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I did not care, at all, how this strange state of affairs had come to pass
Reading BLACK WIDOW: The Ties That Bind by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande earlier this year made me realize the way I read comics has changed. I picked up the …
You’re a wonder, Wonder Family!
Looking back from 2021, the Wonder Family era of Wonder Woman is just an amusing bit of comics trivia, as minor as Marvel’s Golem or the Maniaks. In their day, …
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.
There must have been something in the water. Or maybe the ink.
When I think of how the Silver Age changed comics, I usually think of Julius Schwartz, then Marvel, putting their distinctive stamps on the superhero genre. Rereading the Silver Age …
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – January 2020
Hope springs eternal, so I hope I can do this every month. Let’s see what’s what!