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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-07 22:22:00

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creator: mark waid, title: irredeemable

Irredeemable #2: More backstory on the Plutonian
Mark Waid brings up one of the chief complaints people have about the way Superman's secret identity is handled (no, not the glasses), as he provides a little more backstory on the Plutonian, the man who went from the world's greatest hero to its worst villain.

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box_in_the_box
2009-05-08 03:09 pm UTC (link)

Well, to be fair, with guy writers, the only way that a lot of them know how to show how strong ANY character is is through their fighting prowess, and ESPECIALLY with female characters, where they don't want to be accused of making the character seem "weak" by not fighting all the time.

An acquaintance of mine who read Kingdom Come put it best: "Waid's Wonder Woman is a clueless guy's idea of what a strong woman is like."

Again, Waid's schizophrenia really comes through, because for all his talk about the morally superior person winning, his idea of a positive portrayal for Wonder Woman is to make her a tough brawler. It reminds me of his take on Captain America, in which he insisted that Cap's no-kill policy was what made Cap morally superior to other heroes, but then, in the stories themselves, the only way he's able to maintain it is via incredibly contrived deus ex machinas that Cap couldn't even be credited with.

Every once in a while, I wonder if Waid isn't a Willy Loman of Silver Age fandom, desperately trying to sell himself on a bill of goods that he no longer believes in.

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