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Review: Wonder Woman #10/Justice League #10/Ame-com #1-3

2 July 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Wonder Woman #10

Justice League slipped a week again, hence the late arrival of the review Wonder Woman review. Sorry – blame DC and Geoff Johns.

Anyway, where last we left Wonder Woman, she was down in the Land of Death, about to be hoist by her own petard – her golden lasso, in fact. What happened next?

Well, I was surprised, that’s what, since rather than what we might all have been expecting based on Brian Azzarello’s writing so far, we instead got an old-school Wonder Woman conclusion to this part of the story. Which is odd.

Meanwhile, back in Justice League #10, we find out that actually, yes, Geoff Johns has been reading Wonder Woman, since we get our first bit of continuity so far. And over in the new, weekly Ame-com – which is a digital-only series based on a series of statues (no, really) – Wonder Woman wears relatively few clothes and swears a bit too much for a title clearly aimed at young girls who like Disney princesses.

Follow me after the jump to find out more.

The cover of Justice League 10

Ame-com #1

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Weekly Wonder Woman

Review: Wonder Woman #10/Justice League #10/Ame-com #1-3

2 July 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Wonder Woman #10

Justice League slipped a week again, hence the late arrival of the review Wonder Woman review. Sorry – blame DC and Geoff Johns.

Anyway, where last we left Wonder Woman, she was down in the Land of Death, about to be hoist by her own petard – her golden lasso, in fact. What happened next?

Well, I was surprised, that’s what, since rather than what we might all have been expecting based on Brian Azzarello’s writing so far, we instead got an old-school Wonder Woman conclusion to this part of the story. Which is odd.

Meanwhile, back in Justice League #10, we find out that actually, yes, Geoff Johns has been reading Wonder Woman, since we get our first bit of continuity so far. And over in the new, weekly Ame-com – which is a digital-only series based on a series of statues (no, really) – Wonder Woman wears relatively few clothes and swears a bit too much for a title clearly aimed at young girls who like Disney princesses.

Follow me after the jump to find out more.

The cover of Justice League 10

Ame-com #1

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Thursday’s “Wonder Woman gets a writer, Samuel L Jackson joins Robocop and France gets six new HD channels” news

7 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for That’s My Boy, with Adam Sandler, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon et al
  • Trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s Flight, with Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle et al
  • Teaser trailer for Django Unchained

Theater

French TV

UK TV

US TV

New US TV shows

Weekly Wonder Woman

Review: Wonder Woman #9/Justice League #9/Earth 2 #1

18 May 2012 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Wonder Woman #9

Not wishing to sound too much like the late great Christopher Hitchens, this month’s issues of Wonder Woman and Justice League are all about eros and thanatos – aka (sort of) love and death. Well, Eros is certainly there in Wonder Woman, as is his mother Aphrodite; Thanatos isn’t, but in his place are Hades and his wife (or should that be wife-to-be) Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, over in Justice League, Steve Trevor has taken to drink over the love of a good woman (Wonder Woman, again) and there’s the threat of death, too.

Add to those two themes truth, because people want to know it rather urgently, and eros again in the form of bondage, because a certain golden lasso is going to be important in both titles. And because it’s Wonder Woman.

After the jump then, a brief rundown on each of the issues, plus a discussion of the general devaluation of women that will feature a guest appearance of the new nu52 parallel universe title Earth 2.

Justice League #9

Earth 2

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A great big, long, very slow hand-clap to Marvel: Black Widow Strikes

8 May 2012 Natalia Romanova 7 Comments

So, as we all know, not a lot of women read comics (honourable exception: me). Or at least superhero comics (another honourable exception: me).

There have been lots of theories as to why this should be, largely put out by men. However, at least one of these theories is that there aren’t any good representations of women in comics – that the female characters that there are are secondary, aren’t well characterised and are usually sexualised for the benefit of younger male readers, making female readers not seem very welcome.

Now DC hasn’t been doing particularly well here, with only about 7% of its readers female. But at least it has a few titles with female leads: Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Voodoo, Batgirl, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, and Catwoman, for starters, although some treat their female characters better than others. Over at Marvel, the situation is far worse, with the last female-led title, X-23, following hot on the heels of Ms. Marvel and Black Widow in getting cancelled.

That’s right – there’s not a single superhero title with a female lead at Marvel.

Now you’d have thought that with the largest opening movie of all time, The Avengers/Avengers Assemble, at the box office right now, it would be a golden opportunity for Marvel to capitalise on the fact that there’s a superheroine in the line up – Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow – who, thanks to the mighty word processing powers of Joss Whedon, gets to kick arse a lot, isn’t second-fiddle to the men, and isn’t there to be someone’s girlfriend.

In fact, you’d be right. Look! It’s Marvel’s The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes, a prequel to the movie available in comic stores now.

Black Widow Strikes

Brilliant. All those women going into movies, seeing a decent superheroine character. They’ll pick up Black Widow Strikes, see there’s nothing to fear from the medium and hey presto, loads of new female comics readers, right?

Oh, wait.

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