DC’s New Wonder Woman Comic Includes Trans Amazon

There are Wonder Woman books about Wonder Woman having adventures in the wild blue there, and there are Wonder Woman books that really delve into the character’s implicit conflict: a woman from an island of immortal warrior philosophers who are all women.

New DC Series Nubia and the Amazons it is the last. The book is only about Themyscira society, and doing very, very smart things with the Amazons.

On its first page, with a supernatural plot device, co-writers Stephanie Williams and Vita Ayala, along with artist Alitha Martinez, inject an invaluable source of variety into the never-changing island of the immortals. And, as Williams went on to confirm on Twitter, it is also a way of explicitly include trans women in Themyscira society.

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In their premiere issue, Williams, Ayala, and Martínez present the Well of Souls, a branch of the Amazon origin story detailed in George Pérez’s influential 1987 Amazon Origin Story. Pérez’s Amazons were created within the Cave of Souls, a place where Greek goddesses make each new warrior from the reincarnated souls of women who died from violence perpetrated by men. The new Well of Souls creates a path from the Cavern to Themyscira, and establishes the idea that the arrival of new Amazons is routine and is accompanied by much celebration and welcoming ritual. Including each new Amazon choosing a name for it.

Fans suspected that Bia’s admission here contained something significant that had yet to be revealed, and Williams confirmed the theory on Twitter. saying “The answer to your burning question is yes. There are trans Amazons. One of the newer Amazons is a black trans woman. ”

Watch? This is exactly the kind of amazing thing you can do when you get excited about the potential of an island of immortal warrior philosophers.

I don’t usually put a whole page in the abstract, much less two pages, but this moment in Thor # 18, which leans towards Frog Thor like a sharp turn and portends the Avengers (pet) reform, just a few pages, just rules too hard not to show.

Hey, you are a fan of Batman: The Animated Series and other Batman comics like this one? Would you like to read a story that we’re definitely getting too old for this heist about a Catwoman who just got out of life in a modern Gotham city where Batman has been dead for years? Well you should read Catwoman: Lonely City, because it is the best and most elegant version of that field that you could hope for. The book is also Cliff Chiang’s first time writing a comic and drawing it and damn it! Let this guy write more comics! He also colors and letters it! Dammit! Dammit!

Image: Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo / DC Comics

Someone asked me a while ago who the most homophobic supervillain was, and I had a hard time deciding on one from DC Comics – Marvel makes it easy, with how many literal Nazis lurking on that stage, maybe Wonder Woman’s Doctor Psycho?

But now I have a new answer. What about being Apollo and Midnighter’s nemesis, and his villain setup for Jon Kent, will soon establish himself as bisexualI consider Henry Bendix the most homophobic supervillain in DC Comics. This is not a loss, as it is the worst of all incarnations. Let the superhumans beat his jaw for a long time.

Image: Rio Youers, Tom Fowler / DC Comics

If you read Basket full of heads, you know it’s a series about a Viking ax whose victims remain alive and conscious even after their heads are separated from their bodies. The sequel, Refrigerator full of heads, immediately raise the stakes with a Jaws pastiche. Most of all, I just want to compliment artist Tom Fowler’s sound effects design here, because it didn’t occur to me that this was really just a still image of a shark head and not a bouncing, snapping, waving CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMPing teeth nightmare for days of staring at it.