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Below are the 12 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

October 14th, 2009
03:01 pm [gargoylekitty] [Link]	Secret Six #14 ( Spoilers under cut ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, creator: gail simone, creator: nicola scott, title: secret six (35 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 13th, 2009
06:26 pm [trelas] [Link]	Going Silently in to the Night Small foreword before starting the post itself. I originally intended to this post back in the Martial Arts week a few weeks back, but then I was snared by the simple awesomeness of Batman: Arkham Asylum, after which I had to return to work with my vacation having ended. So this post kind of simmered away, but I still kind of wanted to do it due to several discussions I have had and read on the subject, so here it is finally happening. With that said, to the first part of the topic itself. ( Of epic fights between grand champions ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: lady shiva/sandra woosan, char: superman/clark kent, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: jeph loeb (53 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 8th, 2009
06:30 pm [bluefall] [Link]	not One Perfect Moment .... Because I'm reasonably sure that Artemis doesn't have one. She's an erratic sort of character even on her best days. But this little exchange is pretty close, I think. ( Amazon throwdown under the cut. ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy, series: one perfect moment week (26 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 30th, 2009
10:05 pm [unknownscribler] [Link]	Wonder Woman redesigns ( 5 under the cut ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: cheetah/barbara minerva, char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: wonder girl/cassie sandsmark, char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, medium: fanart (65 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 16th, 2009
03:55 am [bunniegrrl] [Link]	Wonder Woman Fanart ( A whole lotta Wonder Woman fanart ) . mildly nsfw (you can just about see a...) Tags: char: achilles of thalarion, char: angle man/angelo bend, char: ares/dc, char: ares/marvel, char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: bane, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: blue beetle/jaime reyes, char: cheetah/barbara minerva, char: doctor poison, char: doomsday, char: dr. psycho/edgar cizko, char: egg fu/dr. chang tzu, char: etta candy, char: ferdinand, char: genocide, char: giganta/dr. doris zeul, char: io of themyscira, char: nu'bia, char: parallax, char: queen of fables, char: superman/clark kent, char: terry long, char: white magician/thomas randolph, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, genre: fanart, nsfw: nudity (50 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 20th, 2009
04:24 pm [scottyquick] [Link]	Can I get a "F#%@ YEAH" ? ( Two parts awesome, one part anti-awesome, and add a dash of potential to get these solicits. ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: black canary/dinah lance, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: gail simone, genre: solicitations, publisher: dc comics, title: booster gold, title: green arrow/black canary, title: secret six, title: wonder woman (63 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 13th, 2009
11:46 am [seriousfic] [Link]	Artemis has something to show Wonder Woman ( Y HELO THAR SISTER. ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, in-joke: context is for the weak (48 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 5th, 2009
02:47 pm [bluefall] [Link]	Nu'bia Then and Now, II of II - Now Here we go with part two of my Nu'bia rundown, dealing with her infinitely superior post-Crisis incarnation. Free of tokenism, overt sexism, and laughably bad writing, and with an added apostrophe in her spelling to ever-so-slightly dissociate herself from being named for a piece of Egyptian geography (which seems odd to me, since Nubia is a reasonably common real-world name, but presumably Doselle Young knows what he's doing better than I), she was reinvented and reestablished as a character with an actual distinct hook and reason to exist, and a pretty cool one at that. ( Nu'bia again, and this time with monkeys! ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: nu'bia, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: doselle young, series: world of wondy (31 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 23rd, 2009
12:50 pm [seriousfic] [Link]	Bluefall never told you what happened to Artemis... But I will... So, Artemis is dead. But, since she was so popular, DC gave her a miniseries all about her coming back to life and kicking ass. Hey, that sounds nice. And William Messner-Loebs was writing it, he has some talent. What could go wrong? ( Oh, right, THE NINETIES. ) Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, creator: ed benes, creator: william messner-loebs (72 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 15th, 2009
10:17 pm [bluefall] [Link]	When Wondy was Awesome, part 9 (From Hell to Olympus) Time for another author switch! We've left WML behind with the 100-issue spectacular and the death of Artemis, and now Diana's out of the stupid black straptastic bra and out of Boston, and into the hands of John Byrne. Byrne's run is... hard to pin down. The man wrote with an agenda; there were things he wanted to fix and things he wanted to change and that's what he did. And a lot of those things were good. He repaired most of the damage WML did toward the end of his run, both to Diana and, to some degree, to Polly. He built an actual Wonder Family out of Donna and Cassie and Artemis. He made a point of making Diana unique and ridiculously first-tier badass, firmly establishing how high she belonged in the DCU power hierarchy. ( Diana really attracts a lot of writers who do their own art, doesn't she? ) Next time: Diana teams up with Zauriel, has a romance with a guy who, miracle of miracles, is actually worth her time, and saves all of creation. And the art is wicked cool. Tags: char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: etrigan/jason blood, char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: mike schorr, char: morgaine le fey, char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: john byrne, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy (51 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 6th, 2009
10:21 pm [bluefall] [Link]	When Wondy was Awesome, part 2 (Diana Rockwell Trevor) Last chapter we saw how Perez cleanly and deftly rebooted the Wonder Woman franchise, discarding all the old continuity, the weird bondage, the creepily gender-centric weaknesses, the sexist "ooh a May-un, I must follow him home!" and outdated "we must fight Nazis!" motivations for leaving Paradise, and her jingoistic 40s-style association with the American Way. One thing he did leave, however, was her costume. Because her costume is iconic. (I blame the TV show for this. And inertia. Two reboots now, at least five perfect story-based opportunities to get her into something sane, and it just never happens.) This obviously presented a problem, seeing as the costume no longer made sense at all in Diana's new, completely American-free context. Perez attempted to cope with this conundrum by giving Diana's costume itself its own sort of backstory, which is what this chapter is concerned with. Because Perez being Perez, he didn't just write a story about the bathing suit; he wrote an intricate, moving epic that spans two generations, connects Steve and Diana on a personal level and Themyscira and Man's World on a historical one, and solidifies and reinforces one of the most fundamental traits of the very concept of "Wonder Woman." ( Under the cut. ) Next time: Perez will probably make you cry over a character you've never heard of, and Polly proves the awesome is hereditary. Tags: char: acantha of themyscira, char: apollo/dc, char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: cottus, char: demeter/dc, char: diana rockwell trevor, char: euboea of themyscira, char: hades/dc, char: hera/dc, char: hermes/dc, char: hestia/dc, char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: menalippe of themyscira, char: mnemosyne of themyscira, char: pan/dc, char: persephone/dc, char: philippus of themyscira, char: poseidon/dc, char: steve trevor, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, char: zeus/dc, creator: george perez, group: amazons, publisher: dc comics, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy (38 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 5th, 2009
11:06 pm [bluefall] [Link]	When Wondy was Awesome, part 1 (Birth of a Wonder) Alright, both by request and because I myself feel something at a loss with it gone, here commences the repost of my When Wondy was Awesome series from our LJ incarnation. We'll begin, as is proper, at the beginning - the origin of the character as she is now. The concept of Wonder Woman, of course, is one of the oldest in Big Two comics, as she was first created by Marston back in 1941. However, once the Golden Age ended and the character passed into other hands, she became something of an albatross to the company - they were under contract to keep publishing her, but they didn't really know what to do with her, and her title quickly devolved into a miserable sexist mess from which it never entirely recovered. Thus, with Crisis on Infinite Earths, Editorial completely erased Wonder Woman from past continuity, deciding she would enter the DCU for the first time in the late 80s - allowing them to start over and try to really do her justice. After a long (and terrifying to read about for fear of what might have been) process, they finally found a team that they thought could both create a new and viable character, and preserve the essence of the one who came before; thus Diana passed into the hands of Greg Potter and the now-definitive George Perez. ( And hot damn was that a good call. ) Next time: The nonsensical American flag bathing suit is made to make some small sliver of sense, we learn what kind of person inspires an amazon and why we should care about Steve Trevor, and Diana kills a hecatoncheries, as we tackle the second, less prominent but no less awesome half of Wonder Woman's origin. Tags: char: antiope of bana-mighdall, char: aphrodite/dc, char: ares/dc, char: artemis of bana-mighdall, char: athena/dc, char: decay, char: deimos/dc, char: demeter/dc, char: etta candy, char: harmonia/dc, char: hephaestus/dc, char: hermes/dc, char: hestia/dc, char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: julia kapatelis, char: matthew michaelis, char: menalippe of themyscira, char: philippus of themyscira, char: phobos/dc, char: silver swan/vanessa kapatelis, char: steve trevor, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: george perez, group: amazons, publisher: dc comics, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy (58 comments \| Leave a comment)