Amazons assassinated
Published by Avi Green on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 4:10 PM.
From tarnished Flash Rogues we move on to the even more disturbing case of Amazons being tarnished in the DCU. From what this thread on CBR tells, Amazons Attack sounds even more sick. Now, Wonder Woman's sisters, including her revived mother, are being villified by executing innocent civilians in Washington D.C.
Even if this isn't a camoflaged attack on the US government's policies in real life, or an anti-war metaphor, or even an attack on policies regarding illegal immigrants, it's still in very bad taste, and is going to require tons in order to fix. Years ago, most other writers respectfully depicted them as noble and honorable, but this is very one-dimensional. It doesn't matter if they do push the reset button, this is clearly wallowing in sensationalism.
Here's one description from the responses on the thread about what this is like here:
If they want to redeem themselves, they're going to have to revive all those killed by the Amazons in this horrid miniseries, or to push the reset button, and by that I mean a very big reset button. Looking at the sales chart for the prior month, I see that it fortunately hasn't been a big seller, but in its own way, 47,000 copies is still too much. No one should have to buy it, and I'd advise against completing it.
The worst part is how it does what quite a few other comics of recent have done: it features the return of some celebrated characters such as the Amazons and Diana's mother in a joyless storyline that gives the reader nothing to be happy about. It would seem as though joyless storytelling is what's becoming the norm just now.
Even if this isn't a camoflaged attack on the US government's policies in real life, or an anti-war metaphor, or even an attack on policies regarding illegal immigrants, it's still in very bad taste, and is going to require tons in order to fix. Years ago, most other writers respectfully depicted them as noble and honorable, but this is very one-dimensional. It doesn't matter if they do push the reset button, this is clearly wallowing in sensationalism.
Here's one description from the responses on the thread about what this is like here:
What I'm surprised [at] are the prison camps for women who might know an Amazon.I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to duplicate the very iffy success of that wretched Marvel miniseries here. I say iffy because selling 200,000 to 300,000 copies is a far cry from the millions they all used to sell years ago. If they think they're making a statement against McCarthyism, they've done a very laughable and tiresome job here.
I mean come the heck on.
DC just hit Marvel Civil War levels of stupid with that.
If they want to redeem themselves, they're going to have to revive all those killed by the Amazons in this horrid miniseries, or to push the reset button, and by that I mean a very big reset button. Looking at the sales chart for the prior month, I see that it fortunately hasn't been a big seller, but in its own way, 47,000 copies is still too much. No one should have to buy it, and I'd advise against completing it.
The worst part is how it does what quite a few other comics of recent have done: it features the return of some celebrated characters such as the Amazons and Diana's mother in a joyless storyline that gives the reader nothing to be happy about. It would seem as though joyless storytelling is what's becoming the norm just now.
Labels: dc comics, misogyny and racism, moonbat writers, Wonder Woman
