Wonder Woman 9 (SPOILERS)

[Reginleif]

The reason why Aphrodite's face is not shown is because her beauty is unfathomable and no depiction can accurately represent her.

[Dr. Hurt]

The reason why Aphrodite's face is not shown is because her beauty is unfathomable and no depiction can accurately represent her.

Especially by At...

No, i wont go there...

[slvn]

Whether or not or whether it is [in the eye of the beholder], it is still "beautiful."

If they really want to make a statement about the subjective nature of beauty, they could, after having comment on Aphrodite's great beauty, pull back and show that her face is a mirror. Maybe reflects back to people and idealized version of something about themselves. Just a thought, though. Really, I'm happy having her be beautiful--especially if she's not altogether good.

What I wouldn't want is a one-to-one correlation between the physical goodness of the gods and their apparent goodness of helpfulness. Hephaestus seems (to me, at least) to be the most compassionate and wisest of the gods we have seen so far, and yet he is the most monstrous in appearance. Hermes, if he doesn't turn out to be a traitor, is also one of the good guys, but has something of a "monstrous" quality (though he's not necessarily unattractive). As Eros said in WW 7, "looks can be deceiving."

I could see Aphrodite as a goddess capable of great good but also of cruelty. Love can be cruel. Classic philosophers came to Aphrodite her as more or less two goddesses: Aphrodite Urania, associated with the 'higher" forms of love, and Aphrodite Pandemos, associated with the "lower" kinds.

[Reginleif]

Especially by At...

No, i wont go there...

I was thinking about saying that too

But seriously, its a common theme. Originally it was frowned upon to depict Aphrodite based on a human figure and there was a big controversy in Athens about this. Either way, I liked this issue, and there was no fighting which Im fine with

[This]

I love Wonder Woman and this run has been my favorite in the 30+ years I have been reading comics.

[FIFTY-TWO (52)]

In Rucka's run when Diana severed Medousa's head Pegasus grew out of her blood just like in mythology. Why can't Azzarello use the more gruesome aspects of mythology to give us something truly horrifying instead of all the weak play on words and parlor tricks?

Honestly, man. Why are you still reading this book? It's way past time you dropped it already.

[jack-be-nimble]

Aphrodite is just an headless babe.

The reason why Aphrodite's face is not shown is because her beauty is unfathomable and no depiction can accurately represent her.

We're not shown a complete rendition of Aphrodite from our point of view. Not quite the same as "she's a headless babe".

But, Garion...I like your idea...the epitome of beauty is a headless babe would be quite the statement to make.

I did always feel the Perez design for Aphrodite a bit of a yawn. This new one leaves more to my imagination and personal interpretation.

jBn

[Nyssane]

I liked it, but it wasn't spectacular. It was certainly better than last month's.

I'm still not a fan of old man Ares, nor was I a fan of Aphrodite's depiction. Aphrodite being naked has been done to death, and it just seems a bit hokey, what with them trying to cover all her "dirty bits" with panel placement. I'm interested to see what her face looks like... I definitely hope they do something unique with that. Otherwise, it'll be a huge letdown with all these fantastical gods running around.

I did like seeing Persephone there, and I'm interested to see what happens with her. I also liked the Furies as Diana's bridesmaids. It was a cute touch, nice to see other mythological figures floating about than just the core gods. I'm kind of waiting for Wonder Woman to just up and beat the crap out of Hades.

Zola still bores me to tears, as does Lennox. The others I couldn't really care less about, though I do like Hermes. There's just too many characters to keep track of, and it doesn't help that they introduced a few more in this one. The art was nice, though, and fit along with Chiang's style.

[Maximum Impact]

Honestly, man. Why are you still reading this book? It's way past time you dropped it already.

If I did you would miss me and feel sad and I don't want that for you so I'm sticking it out.

[dshipp17]

Wow, I don't understand the dislike of this issue; I just read it and I thought this was a great issue, even though Azzarello depicts giving Diana the Guns of Eros as a mistake of Hephaestus and says Diana does not need saving; that was a disappointment for me; interesting that Hephaestus is now on a rescue mission; I thought the division of the panels were good this issue and the story moved a little better or smoother this issue compared to the last issue; but, looks like Hephaestus is married to Aphrodite and they are very much in love with one another, unlike the other story in the myth; I can understand that Hephaestus's love for Aphrodite made his aide of Diana genuine and lacking in ulterior motives; I like this Aphrodite better than the other one that I heard about; she seems to be pure love inside and out with a matching beauty; definitely not a hypocrite, but it would be early to judge from those few panels; now, we need to see Athena.

Diana's depiction in this issue was superb, even if she was acting; she's really doing a fine job of acting and, if this were played another way, without Eros guns, this looks like it might actually be Diana. Her treatment by everyone is great and the threat from those girl things or children of Hades dressing her up was great; the makeup job they did on Diana was great and she made the dress on her look beautiful; Hades demands are unreasonable as proof of her loyalty and he's really a SOB; by contrast with Satan, Hades appears to be calculatingly cold, while Satan would be cruelly and hatefully cold; sorry Diana has to go through this and I hope she makes it through with as much of herself remaining as possible; from Diana's look on that last panel, it looks like she's about to tell Hades to stay in Hell and make her break for it; it looked like even Strife felt for Diana.

[Maximum Impact]

She's a hell of an actress. She dropped a tear at the sight of fake PI and immediately switched to asking questions.

[brettc1]

I liked this issue, but the truth is that not much happened. And the worst part is that it will fuel all the people who say she's a supporting member in her book. I dont think i'll be able to stay here until the next issue. You guys are gonna have so much fun arguing about that.

I loved every new design we got (particularly Hades' throne and Diana's dress), except those dog women. Man that was weird as hell! They even had multiple boobs!

The plot is going well, but it really needs to pick up the pace. I cant believe i need to wait another month to see what happens to Diana.

I was going to post the question about whether this was still Diana's book seperately, but since Dr Hurt mentioned it I would hate to disappoint But yes, even when Diana is "on-screen" she is listening more than speaking.

There's lots of clever ideas here - I did like the fate of Chronus, and the non-seeing of Aphrodite -Are the dog creatures supposed to be The Furies? Because they are not Hades daughters.

But I got to the end feeling like I had read half an issue.

[Rainzo]

I really love how it ended...but does her lasso work on her?

[direction9]

probably the book of the week

[brettc1]

Hades demands are unreasonable as proof of her loyalty and he's really a SOB; by contrast with Satan, Hades appears to be calculatingly cold, while Satan would be cruelly and hatefully cold; sorry Diana has to go through this and I hope she makes it through with as much of herself remaining as possible; from Diana's look on that last panel, it looks like she's about to tell Hades to stay in Hell and make her break for it; it looked like even Strife felt for Diana.

In think you do a disservice to Hades. He controls the fields of Elysium as well as the depths of Tartarus. Though the current depiction doesnt do much for his image.