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bluefall (bluefall) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-25 11:21:00

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char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: aaron lopresti, creator: gail simone

Wondy #30
Three pages of interest from this week's ish.

First, we have the return of the Amazons to the island.

Keep an eye out for that bird, it's freaking everywhere in this storyline.

... okay. Akila is not a blonde white chick. Akila looks like this:

Notice how tremendously not-blonde and not-white she is, and the ways in which she in no way resembles the woman speaking to Hippolyta. That is some hardcore headdesk-inducing fail, there. Look, I think her eyes are even blue. Jesus Christ, NOT COOL, guys.

On the other hand. AKILA! Holy shit, you guys, that is so fucking fantastic. She's not dead! She's an acknowledged cast member! Her awesome potential can be explored!

Then, we have Cheetah's plan, as explained by Morrow after Diana smashes the crap out of half the Society.

That's... not a plan, that's a summary of events. And not very Minerva, either, or at least not the interesting version of her, so I will continue to assume she's playing a longer, more self-serving and less mustache-twirling game that we (and Morrow) still don't know about until I am forced not to. This Cheetah has not, thus far, done much for me, and the torture scene was really eyerolltastic (Barbara Freaking Minerva is afraid of getting her tail cut off? Really?), but that moment in Secret Six was the most FUCK YEAH CHEETAH scene since Jimenez left the book, so I choose to remain optimistic.

On the other hand, dig Shrapnel being unwilling to start shit with Diana. This ish does a pretty good job of demonstrating what an unstoppable badass she is. At least, when she's crazy-raged. Genocide infecting her through the lasso, I wonder, or is she just losing it? She's drifted so far from herself from the Heinboot that losing the last vestige of her center seems more than plausible at this point.

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	gargoylekitty 2009-03-25 10:51 am UTC (link)
	The reunion was rather nice and this issue was definitely fantastic in giving a full 'fuck yeah! She's awesome... though also a bit scary' feeling. In that I can only say you should have included the panel with her holding the guy(name, escapes me) up, so badass. (Reply to this)

	thandrak 2009-03-25 11:08 am UTC (link)
	Wait, who was Akila again? Not the Vegas amazon. (Reply to this) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-03-25 12:11 pm UTC (link)

I'ma post that annual sometime soon, perhaps in my own journal since I'll be spending most of the 1/3 limit on the Nu'bia post... Akila was a Bana who went to Oxford to get a Man's World education. It's not clear whether this was a freak experiment by her incredibly radical mother, or something the Bana just do occasionally with their failed-as-a-warrior children in order to keep an eye on the outside world (seems doubtful, but would explain things like Grace), or what.

Anyway, after the Bana hooked up with the Themyscirans, Polly thought it would be helpful to them to have a leader of their own other than her, someone who could be their advocate and have some authority in amazon culture and help the Bana to feel like they had a voice and some structure. She chose Akila, appointing her Shim'tar.

Akila is not a very good warrior by Bana standards, which is why she was sent off the reservation in the first place; her people don't really respect her very much, and as a Bana, neither do the Themyscirans, and she has to have a pretty weird perspective on the world having been educated both by the xenophobic misandrist Bana and the patriarchal but extensive world of the Western university. So there was a lot of interesting stuff seething around her character from her first introduction (the JLApe Wondy annual, where she journeys to the underworld with Nu'bia [the Vegas amazon] and Diana and Artemis).

And then Jimenez killed her off off-panel without ever touching her.

I'm incredibly glad she's back, and I hope she stays in charge and stays interesting and frees up Artemis to be all adventure-y again (interesting, isn't it, that Artemis isn't here, leading her people?). I also hope that somebody remembers next time that she's NOT WHITE HOLY GEEZ.

	colonel_green 2009-03-25 11:43 am UTC (link)
	So much nude hugging you'd think it was a Perez issue! Quite liked this one (though the Olympian and Genocide plots still have blissfully little to do with each other). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ebailey140 2009-03-25 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	So much nude hugging you'd think it was a Perez issue! Yet another reason the Perez run is so great. :) Now, I remember why I used to ship Hyppolyta/Phillipus. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-03-25 11:46 am UTC (link)
	So Cheetah is behind all this? That's actually kind of cool. Well, if Genocide didn't suck it would be cool. (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-03-25 01:10 pm UTC (link)
	Yea ! Nude. Patch-over party ! (Reply to this)