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A. So I didn't really write for the last four days. Oh, some crappy snippets of dialogue, but nothing that counts. Criticism/meta does not count, of course. Bad bad.

B. How do I cross-post between LJ & Dreamwidth other than cut-paste? Is there a program?

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Diana right now seems to be acting like a support cast from herself. She lacks details, it seems the plot gives her the "quirks" needed for that moment. She isn't even be an active voice on her own life. Right now she looks more like a pawn and acts like a chess piece in a game done by the gods... right now the main characters and players on WW life are the gods. She is just an agent which is pushed to a side to another

This. This is the problem with being so enamored of "Tales of the Gods" that you treat Wonder Woman as just a vehicle to do "Tales of the Gods."

Something similar can happen if someone is more interested in the Amazons as a concept than in Di herself.

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A TPB consisting of six issues worth of story can be composed of six stand-alone issues, two 3-issue stories, a 3-issue story plus a single plus a 2-issue one, or three 2-issue stories. Perhaps readers would think they'd be getting an even better value if they got more than one story in their TPB.

But that's crazy talk!

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Wonder of Wonders - 10/19 - War and Peace: Gifted
As her strength fluctuated, so did her resistance to bodily harm. She went from needing her famous "Bracelets of the Aegis" to deflect bullets, death rays and other projectiles, to being able to survive nuclear explosions, molten lava, the depths of the ocean, and the vacuum of outer space.

Am I the only person who sees no contradiction here? I think there have been two nuclear explosions of note; one she survived because of Donna Milton's secret powers, & the other is probably a case of a writer underestimating the threat of a nuclear blast in general. Molten lava is mainly dangerous from heat, & there is some implication that Di is fire-resistant (arguably part of "sisterhood with fire"). Withstanding the pressure of the ocean depths may be a specific divine gift invoked ad hoc by prayer. (Didn't WML deal with it that way?) And for someone pressure-resistant, hard vacuum (given an air supply) isn't all that rough. Human bodies don't actually pop in vacuum, probably because we're more liquid than gas--& solid on the outside. (And if she's also fire-resistant & temperature-resistant, the effects of solar radiation on her lit side might be endurable.)

So we have the long-standing idea (from Marston! It's in the Prime Minister Blizzard story, as I recall) that our bathing-suit-clad protagonist is resistant to extremes of temperature, due to some special discipline, or "mind over matter." And constant pressure, under the sea, can perhaps be dealt with similarly. None of this means she's invulnerable to acute applied force, as from a bullet or fist.

Are there irregularities? Sure. Am I going to conclude that a character not designed to be invulnerable really is invulnerable because of some writers' mistakes? Not in this case; why should I?

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Superman's a protector, Batman's an avenger, but Wonder Woman's an example of how anyone can stand up for themselves. Her underlying message is, "You can be like me, you can do it yourself." --Kurt Busiek

You know who he just described there? His Astro City character that's a very rough Wondy analog. And you know what, we need more characters that are almost Wondy analogs, so that we can better explore the different ideas that keep getting attached to Wondy.