Wonder Woman’s New Look
Once again DC shows it doesn’t know what to do with one of its iconic characters. In this case, Wonder Woman. Newsflash: The problem with Wonder Woman isn’t her costume. But this and some origin retconning is how they think she’ll be fixed.
DC describes the new outfit as “a Wonder Woman look designed for the 21st century” that will allow Diana “to be taken seriously as a warrior, in partial answer to the many female fans over the years who’ve asked, ‘how does she fight in that thing without all her parts falling out?’ …The bracelets are still there, but made more colorful, tied on the inside and over the hand, with a script W on each of them that form WW when she holds them side by side… and if you get hit by one of them, it leaves a W mark. This is a Wonder Woman who signs her work.”
The problem with Wonder Woman isn’t her look. It’s her personality. She has never been a warm, appealing character. She starts off with this man hater history which is a turn off, especially in a field where the majority of comics readers are men.
Secondly, while she does change her attitude somewhat when she comes ashore, the whole men are evil mentality continues. It’s misandry, plain and simple and that’s unappealing.
Third, she lacks personality. A character needs to be appealing in some way for people to care about them. Every writer of that character failed to give us a reason to give a damn about her. Being good looking isn’t enough, especially in a world were 99% of the women are babes.
Her backstory isn’t very well thought out. The guy who created her, William Moulton Marston, was a bit of a perv who was into bondage, which is why she got tied up a lot back in the ’40s.
Until she gets handled by someone who understands the problems with this character and knows how to really fix them, this reboot is going to be yet another in a long line of failures. I don’t see anything in the press about what they want to do to change that opinion.
UPDATE: Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood says “DC Ruined Wonder Woman”. I agree with GeorgeC that it’ll last two years at most before they revert to the old look. I give it a year, actually.
Kagan A Dangerous Supreme Pick
The fact that she refuses to answer this, and suggests the courts should not strike down such a law, is scary as hell. And to think there was only one vote that reaffirmed our gun rights yesterday, which shouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. Gun control has racist roots. It was created to rob blacks of the ability to defend themselves. Progressives want everyone to be powerless that way.
Here we have a progressive supreme court nominee who has no problem with banning books, or laws telling you what you can eat. This is extremely disturbing and even moreso that there are people out there who approve of this stuff.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer
Looks pretty impressive. I’m sure it will make some bucks.
Pixar: The Secret Ingredients
I discuss why Pixar movies do so well over on Big Hollywood today.
Haven’t seen Toy Story 3 yet, but I hear it’s great.
RIP Robert Byrd: “The Emperor Palpatine of Pork”
Senator Robert Byrd died today. He was 92. Another reason we need term limits. The whole idea of lifetime senators is a mistake that should have gone out in the 20th century.
Nick Gillespie of Reason died a great review of his career here.
I’ll give Byrd some credit for sticking up for the occasional constitutional principals when someone like Obama tried to ram through some nonsense. But in the end, he was just another hack.
Byrd was one of the last of the old time Senators who’d been in power for 40+ years (52 in Byrd’s case). Time tio put an end to that practice. I don’t think anyone should be able to serve more than two terms in the Senate.
An Antediluvian Map?
Antediluvian, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, means pre-flood. Pre-Noah’s Ark. In otherwords, prehistory.
There has been indications of civilizations far older than recorded history. But evidence has been scant. Not surprising since we’re talking about stuff surviving over incredible epochs of time. So that’s why the Dashka stone is cause for some excitement. It’s a stone tablet that may come from one of these eras. It has writing in a completely unknown language and it indicates a civilization more advanced that any previously known.
Democrats Are Anti-Free Speech
Pelosi rammed another bill through this week with the usual sleazy backroom deal making, which is a “Campaign Finance Reform” law aimed at getting around the Supreme Court’s recent gutting of McCain/Feingold. This new bill once again limits free speech in political ads, except for unions, who are excluded from the law.
This Mark Levin podcast explains the scam.
The Democrats are constitutional criminals. There is no other honest way to describe them. They are systematically trying to rob us of our rights. They need to go.
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