Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

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Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

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Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Phil Jimenez aren’t just creating a new story— they’re crafting a fully realized culture. This is really embarrassing, but I really love The Great Courses Plus, which is a series of actual professors giving you their actual lectures, only they’re standing on a very awkward soundstage looking at cameras when they’re told to.

That doesn’t explain all of the time, but I like to defend myself by saying it’s not like we had a lot of pages in the can when the book was announced. And this happens sometimes when women are trying to celebrate women as well, but it happens a lot when men are trying to celebrate women. So, the idea that a society of women would be more communal makes a lot of assumptions about women that are sort of essentialist, and really discounts how much of the way women are has to do with what women are asked or forced to do culturally. Right from the opening issue of Historia, it’s clear that this is unlike any Wonder Woman story that came before it, with DeConnick and Jimenez drawing heavily from Greco-Roman mythology and the classic art of the era. And the idea of warriors existing to protect peace transcends gender and is just a historical notion.It’s also a story, going back to Marston, which historians and literary theorists have often analyzed for themes of queerness and open sexuality. To prepare us for this reframed classic that uses the past to reveal our present, we spent an afternoon with Phil and Kelly Sue to discuss Historia in the making.

And for all the gorgeous artwork, of which there is certainly no shortage, this miniseries only works with the scripting provided by DeConnick who confidently tells her origin story while masterfully maintaining the narrative through the extended page count and changes in tone. I listened to something like fifty hours of the classicist Elizabeth Vandiver’s lectures on mythology, and on Herodotus and Homer, and was very interested in all of that as well.And I guess the thing I would want you to take away from it is the idea of questioning the version of history that you have always been fed. I love this work because it is, to me, clearly the work of a woman and maybe less clearly, but certainly I can see it, the work of a gay dude. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481. I think of being queer as being anti-tradition, anti-patriarchal, as something that upends kind of a traditional and often conservative, regressive point of view. Although DC Black Label is set outside of mainstream continuity, elements could inspire changes in Wonder Woman’s actual canon.

We all know the Marston stuff was mired in Marston’s own fetishized view of sex and women, but it’s still amazing work to me because of the fact that this was 1942, the middle of World War II, and it was so clear and obvious on the page. I don’t think of it exclusively in terms of sexuality so much as the notion of the queering of the world. Jimenez spoke on his creative process, saying, “The thing that excited me the most about this project was Kelly Sue’s take on the mythology. Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, each installment of the three-issue miniseries is illustrated by a different superstar artist, with Phil Jimenez kicking things off, Gene Ha bringing the middle chapter to life, and Nicola Scott closing out the initial leg of this epic tale.That said, of course the fifties came along, as well as the Comics Code Authority, and sort of eradicated that part of Wonder Woman, up to the eighties when Pérez reintroduced it. When DC’s Black Label imprint launched in 2018, Historia was one of the first books announced for the lineup. DeConnick and Jimenez will bring a new dimension to Wonder Woman’s people with their original story.

Starting out as a columnist for the Image Comics preview magazine Image+, Sam also translated the Eisner Award nominated-Beowulf for the publisher.Timothy also filled in as an editor for the comics section and core features pertaining to film and TV. While Historia maintains its grandiosity, the narrative emphasis begins to shift from a broader, world-building tale to one that focuses on a much more singular story. One thing I do like to stress is that when the book was announced, not a page had been written, not a page had been drawn. It just has a proud and profound feminist point of view, and that thrills me because I think that queers our industry a little bit. And what I was really interested in doing was using the garb and the environments to expand on the character development that Kelly Sue gave me in the script.



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