xdavebakerx
09-10-2009, 12:51 AM
just for the record:
gail simone's the circle changed my life. im undoubtedly preaching to the choir but ... i feel like this has to be said.
I never understood wonder woman. i didn't get her role in the justice league, in the world, in the dc universe. she just ever made sense to me. she fights for equality but she's wearing a bikini? she's a peaceful emissary from a race of warrior women? i didn't get it.
recently i was in a bookstore, just killing time, and i saw mr. dodson's amazing artwork. i picked it up and started flipping through it. i stopped on a page of diana fighting a white gorilla. i like gorillas. i'll check this out. then abruptly in the middle of the battle diana stops and asks the gorilla, " what do you want? why are we fighting? " this BLEW MY MIND. the fact that diana would stop and treat this giant white ape with the respect that a sentient being deserves floored me. there, in two pages, it was. i understood. i completely got why the dc universe needed a wonder woman. Bruce is on one end of the spectrum, clark is on the other and diana is in the middle. she's an ambassador. She listens to people. she give people second chances. i understand her and i love her.
im not a religious person. at ALL. i detest organized religion. Diana is the closest thing i have to a religion. not in a creepy way like i worship her or anything. i mean, i try to live like diana. to listen to people and search for the truth. to give people second chances (when it doesn't potentially damage anyone else. ) but more importantly to re-examine what i don't understand. cause... hey, if wonder woman can be SO good than who knows right?
and im telling you all this cause something happened to me that messed me up for weeks. and the only way i knew how to deal with it was to make a comic. i love comics. i LOVE comics.
i made a mini comic about diana... and me... and being sad... yeah, you'll see.
the minicomix are here:
http://www.modernmythologypress.com/?p=1438
dave
gail simone's the circle changed my life. im undoubtedly preaching to the choir but ... i feel like this has to be said.
I never understood wonder woman. i didn't get her role in the justice league, in the world, in the dc universe. she just ever made sense to me. she fights for equality but she's wearing a bikini? she's a peaceful emissary from a race of warrior women? i didn't get it.
recently i was in a bookstore, just killing time, and i saw mr. dodson's amazing artwork. i picked it up and started flipping through it. i stopped on a page of diana fighting a white gorilla. i like gorillas. i'll check this out. then abruptly in the middle of the battle diana stops and asks the gorilla, " what do you want? why are we fighting? " this BLEW MY MIND. the fact that diana would stop and treat this giant white ape with the respect that a sentient being deserves floored me. there, in two pages, it was. i understood. i completely got why the dc universe needed a wonder woman. Bruce is on one end of the spectrum, clark is on the other and diana is in the middle. she's an ambassador. She listens to people. she give people second chances. i understand her and i love her.
im not a religious person. at ALL. i detest organized religion. Diana is the closest thing i have to a religion. not in a creepy way like i worship her or anything. i mean, i try to live like diana. to listen to people and search for the truth. to give people second chances (when it doesn't potentially damage anyone else. ) but more importantly to re-examine what i don't understand. cause... hey, if wonder woman can be SO good than who knows right?
and im telling you all this cause something happened to me that messed me up for weeks. and the only way i knew how to deal with it was to make a comic. i love comics. i LOVE comics.
i made a mini comic about diana... and me... and being sad... yeah, you'll see.
the minicomix are here:
http://www.modernmythologypress.com/?p=1438
dave