I Owe Absolute Wonder Woman An Apology

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  @The1979semifinalist · 5 months ago · pinned

  I&apos;m glad you came back and gave us another try! And very glad it&apos;s hitting for you. <br><br>Just a couple little things: Zeus is def NOT Diana&apos;s dad (we haven&apos;t been explicit on page yet, but she was created by Hippolyta and the Goddesses). Amazons are not/will not be bad/evil (which I do think is explicit on the page -- but a lot of people have speculated anyway). <br><br>And that photo you keep showing is not me. lol. Weirdly...it&apos;s my friend DeAnne...who is not a writer. So not sure what&apos;s up with that.

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  @thinkabout42 · 5 months ago

  I also ADORE how pretty much half of the fights end with &quot;I have nothing to gain from it, you have little to gain from it, should we really?&quot; and then they just don&apos;t fght at all lol.<br>Diana is so cool for this.

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  @killian9314 · 5 months ago

  I gotta say, that excerpt about Aphrodite and her features being obscured because Love can have the well poisoned by lust and seeing a person whole requires trust. Is one the best things I’ve heard in days

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  @FourLetterLWord · 5 months ago

  Maybe my favorite detail about Absolute WW that wasn&apos;t even in a &nbsp;WW comic proper was how she was addressed in Absolute Evil; the villains are going over their respective adversaries and their exploits, and as they kind of power scale debate about which ones are a threat and why, someone brings up, &quot;there have always been people with powers and we&apos;ve always dealt with them...&quot; And Cale points out that she doesn&apos;t care about Diana having a big sword, or punching a monster, or having magic, or being from hell, etc... what stands out to her is how Diana, a total atranger and alien element, walked into an active crisis zone under strict martial law and started giving orders, and everyone just listened to her. &nbsp;They trusted her. &nbsp;And Cale hates and is threatened by how she comes by that power so naturally.<br><br>Other than just being a really cool character trait, it is a nod to Marston&apos;s concept of &quot;Love Leaders&quot;. &nbsp;It&apos;s an idea he pushed in his real world psychology work, that real power and authority belongs to people you can trust to make decisions for you with your best interest in mind, which he considered the strong suit of feminism and that he built into the bedrock of the original Wonder Woman comics.

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  @maximumdm9612 · 3 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7UqZaakF3k&amp;t=555">9:15</a> I absolutely love Diana&apos;s response. It&apos;s freaking hilarious. And fantastically written dialogue. Polite, cordial, just patronizing enough to show she&apos;s frustrated, and then her abrupt response to the guys asking what an Undead Pegasus eats. Great. Got a good laugh out of me.

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  @dayalasingh5853 · 5 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7UqZaakF3k&amp;t=1375">22:55</a> while she&apos;s definitely reminiscent of Hindu gods this is taken from classical depictions. Hecate was described as threefold and this extends into art where she&apos;s often depicted with 3 sets of arms and 3 heads/3 faces on one head.

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  @mxmothmanart · 5 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7UqZaakF3k&amp;t=1692">28:12</a> her clay origin is canon to the Absolute Universe. it was used against her in the Batman crossover issue since it makes her similar enough to a magical golem that a control spell for one was effective. (i think it&apos;s canon in mainline again as well--Mark Waid did a lot of clean up in his New History)

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  @mercernova5347 · 5 months ago

  Everytime I read an Absolute book it becomes my favorite of the bunch.

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  @friendlynbrhdghost · 5 months ago

  “I loved the Percy Jackson series-“ yeah I can tell. (Me too)

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  @leifthesilly · 5 months ago

  &quot;absolute Wonder woman is a queer icon&quot;<br><br>Eh... I&apos;m not convinced... <br>(Not me literally planning my amateur drag persona with absolute Diana as an inspiration/lh)

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  @DynamicVice · 5 months ago (edited)

  One of the best things about Absolute Wonder Woman it&apos;s how much it sticks close to the main universe, while also doing so many original and cool things! It&apos;s basically a coherent compilation of her greatest hits!<br>And yes, all the characters you see in this book (supporting cast and villains) do exist in the mainline universe, but some of them are &quot;different&quot; (either as a subversion or as foreshadowing for future events, I don&apos;t know, but I&apos;m not going to spoil you).<br><br>here&apos;s few of my Personal recommendations for Wonder Woman stories:<br><br>- WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: AMAZONS (Kelly Thompson cited this one as an inspiration for Absolute Wonder Woman. That, and the fact it gained multiple awards, is how you know this is GREAT);<br>- WONDER WOMAN BY GEORGE PEREZ<br>- WONDER WOMAN HIKETEIA<br>- WONDER WOMAN BY PHIL JIMINEZ<br>- WONDER WOMAN BY GAIL SIMONE <br>- WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH<br>- WONDER WOMAN BY GREG RUCKA (He did 2 runs: The first one and the &quot;Rebirth Era&quot; one. The first one is a MASTERPIECE, and the second one is pretty good. Not on the same level, but still worth a read).<br><br><br>Whatever you do, just stay away from Wonder Woman New 52 (It&apos;s the one that changed her story from &quot;made from Clay and magic&quot; to &quot;daughter of Zeus&quot;, and the one that turned the Amazons into rapists. It&apos;s TERRIBLE...) and the current Wonder Woman run, by Tom King (It&apos;s just boring).

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  @dayalasingh5853 · 5 months ago

  Just finished the video, great stuff! This, absolute martian Manhunter, and absolute Green Lantern have been my 3 favourites and this was a great breakdown of Absolute Wonder Woman.

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