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espanolbot ([info]espanolbot) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-29 20:33:00

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Entry tags:char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: darwyn cooke, publisher: dc comics, title: new frontier

New Frontier: Diana vs. Eisenhower, guest starring Richard Nixon!

In which Diana's opinions of the war in South East Asian War come to bite her in the ass.

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Eisenhower wins via the power of patronising sexism!

The above scene was missing from the movie adaption of this series, and instead was covered with just a throw away sentence. I think that it's meant to be Diana is causing an embarassment to the government, so the honorary citizenship is a bribe to discretely leave the country.

It kind of shows that the idealist view of America Diana gained whilst she was fighting in the Second World War unfortunately doesn't measure up to the reality of the mid- to late Fifties and Sixties.

It's possible that her decision to arm those women in the other segment I posted may have come from her experience with resistance fighters in Occupied Europe or something, except in a cruel piece of dramatic irony those men she taught those women to fight off won't be overthrown like the Nazis were, and they're pretty much stuck there for the long haul.



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[info]jarodrussell
2009-07-29 09:47 pm UTC (link)
See, that's the impression I got(1) based on his statement about "Good vs. evil." The stuff going on in Asia, while just as despicable as what the Nazi's did, was no where as easily handled, tactically or politically, as the Axis-versus-Allies in WW2. Those pages...and, I admit, my own small fanboying of Eisenhower...make me think he wasn't trying to brush her off because he didn't think what she was saying was important, just that he didn't have an answer she'd want to hear and he didn't want their last words to be an argument.

(1. My impression is not everyone's impression, hence my earlier inquiry and acceptance of an answer.)

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