<3 Greg Rucka’s Lois Lane maxi-series continues to be one of the only good things that DC publishes <3
We get fabulous lesbian Renee Montoya and Lois dragging Batman (Who always deserves to be dragged because I mean come on…look at how he chooses to live his life)
And also
A massive “Fuck you” to the racist fascist TRASH that is I.C.E and the dog-fucking scum that is the US government
The world of superhero comics needs more comics like Lois Lane and more writers like Greg Rucka
I love the subtlety of their calling out the racism inherent in ICE and most anti-immigrant groups. Especially how it’s Lois Lane, who has every reason to believe the “Everyone loves Superman and Wonder Woman because they’re heroes” line, that acknowledges that their skin color lets them get a pass where others don’t.
Same kind of vibe as this panel from Injustice, only subtler and more specific in its commentary:
Though to be clear, J’onn’s line here only applies to the weird fascist murder mess that is Injustice! Wonder Woman
Who is
A garbage Wonder Woman
I do not believe that anyone watching it happen thinks Batman is enjoying himself while beating up criminals.
I mean he’s VERY entuhiastic about it…
It depends on the criminal and how evil they are
At least when Bruce is written WELL it does
If it’s the Joker or Black Mask he’s gonna take great joy in beating them into paste with his fists <3
I still never understood the idea of Injustice! Wonder Woman. Like what were they thinking when making her?
It’s like they just went “What if we took all the Absolute Worst Takes on Wonder Woman and combined them but then also made them worse…”
Like, why use Wonder Woman, if you aren’t gonna use Wonder Woman? It’s like that one elseworld where Diana was a freaking Nazi. (And Clark spent some time as a teenage girl for some reason) What is the freaking point of using her if she isn’t remotely recognizable as herself? Like if you want to write a hero as a villain in another universe/timeline, fine, but at least make them recognizable as a version of the hero. Make them foils of each other, show us how the hero could have come the villain, give us some message. Otherwise, what’s the point?
And no, Kal El being raised by evil people doesn’t count.
Honestly the only good elseworld! Wonder Women I can think of in the comics are the Bombshells version…every other time I’ve seen her in an Elseworlds she’s either been OOC and terrible or full on a supervillain monster
I think the problem is that 80% of Elseworlds really come down to “What if Superman/Batman was [X]?… meh yeah I guess I can include WW somewhere…” by people who only care about Superman and/or Batman. which comes hand-in-hand with most (male) writers only seeing Wonder Woman as secondary to Superman & Batman.
“Let’s just make her their girlfriend…or evil…or something”
Never as ACTUALLY the villain, though. that would be crazy. Just as the Dragon… or the Dark Chick. Or anything that doesn’t involve her being the one with actual power in the narrative.
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