bluefall (bluefall) wrote in scans_daily, @ 2009-04-03 16:36:00 |
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Entry tags: | char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: nu'bia, char: supergirl/kara zor-el, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, series: world of wondy |
Nubia Then and Now, I of II - Then
The Wonder Woman mythos, plagued as it has been by "take over, change everything"-itis, has a fair number of supporting cast members who no one has ever heard of. These are the little guys who get a name and a relationship to Diana like they're supposed to be important, but have maybe five minutes of panel time in a run or, perhaps, if they're lucky, a whole storyarc, and then are never heard from again. Many of them, admittedly, were ignored by subsequent writers for a reason; the Sphinx and Quinn and Officer Modini and Bobby Trevor aren't exactly compelling pillars of characterization and interest, and don't have much to recommend themselves for further use.
Some of those lost characters are really damn cool, though, and deserve to be unearthed, brushed off and given a second look and another spin through the canon. One such buried gem is the amazon Nu'bia.