Amazons Attack Atlantis
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.
This week we continue our look at The Twelve Labors, the series of mid-1970s adventures in which Wonder Woman insists on earning her way back into the Justice League of America by having fellow JLA heroes observe and judge her exploits.
But just as a side note, you may be interested to know that there’s a play about the creator and the lasting legacy of Wonder Woman,
Lasso of Truth, opening next week at Marin Theatre Company. Check back tomorrow for a link to my advance feature in the Marin IJ. I’ll actually be taking part in a panel discussion on the legacy of Wonder Woman after the 2pm matinee of Lasso on Saturday, March 1, alongside comic creator and women-in-comics historian Trina Robbins and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, director of the documentary Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines. So that may be a good time to come check it out if you’re into that sort of thing. Read more
Encounter at Flashpoint
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.
Last week I started talking about Flashpoint, DC Comics’ 2011 mega-crossover that led into the New 52 reboot that restarted all of the company’s superhero series and reimagined many of its characters (usually for the worse), and remained the status quo they have today. It turned out that I had so much to say about this series in general that I didn’t have space to actually talk about the part that directly involved Wonder Woman. So the quickest of recaps: The Flash has screwed up time while trying to set right a change his archenemy made in the timeline, inadvertently creating a dystopian reality in which, among other things, a war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman has led to the sinking of Wonder Woman by Atlantis and the British Isles conquered by the Amazons.
