Just finished reading the DC Comics’ graphic novel “Trinity”. It’s a story of Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman as they first meet and fight together to battle Ra’s al Ghul and Bizarro. The novel is from 2004 but I just got it in my comic book/graphic novel birthday haul earlier this month :)
Trinity
I liked it. A version of them meeting for the first time I had never read before. Superman likes Wonder Woman, Batman is a paranoid kinda-sorta jerk (but really isn’t that his charm?) and Wonder Woman thinks these men are brave but cuckoo (ok, it doesn’t actually use that term but you get that feeling;) )
It also has a young “rogue” Amazon named Artemis. They barely touch on where she came from/why rogue but what it did offer didn’t jive with my remembrance of the Amazon and Paradise Island (sorry now called Themyscira that simply IS paradise, not called Paradise) lore. I’ve been out of the WW loop for too long apparently!
On to my next graphic novel in the stack. Do I stay in the Wonder Woman vein or move over to some X-Men?? THAT is the question! :)
I just ordered “Red” – mostly because a) Warren Ellis cracked me up at the SDCC panel and the movie looks fun (even though I don’t think it follows the comic much – it has Helen Mirren so it HAS to be good!)
I also ordered (graphic novel) Grimm’s Fairy Tales Volume 1 (although I think I should order Volume 2 ASAP as well) so I need to get through this current stack! I was talking to people in line at SDCC about the Grimm’s Fairy Tales in gand the definite consensus was that these were great re-tellings in graphic format. Although if that lying beyotch Red does anything to the wolf….(is that a Grimm tale?)
Plus I think I’m heading back to Lee’s on Friday so that can’t end well for my wallet….
8:47 am on July 29th, 2010
I’m with you about the wolves – if they’re going to “re-tell” those tales they need to make the wolves heroic! WW is cool. I should pick that up. I have always loved her. Strong. Self-possessed. Wish I was more like her. ;) Looks like you had fun at the Comicon – I was following your play-by-play. ;) Cheers!
10:54 am on July 29th, 2010
I think I need to start a campaign about wolves. I am SO sick of the “thrown to the wolves, raised by a pack of wolves” comments I read or hear all the time. They need a better PR firm :)
The new WW (with the new costume) is ok. Just started so I’ll see. But not a fan. I call it lasts a year, maybe 2. But I bought tons of “older” stuff (written over the past 5 years) so I am excited to read and catch up on her adventures. She is the best super heroine. Certainly in the DC universe.
I need to finish my blog post about SDCC. SO. MUCH. FUN. :)