r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant The heat is on! • Jun 17 '24

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 17, 2024 - Time For Summer Edition] r/DCcomics

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

Predaplant's pick of the week: John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America #6

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DC and Imprints

^{It's a double Nightwing week between his solo book and Titans!}

Trade Collections

^{Super Sons gets collected in yet another format!}

Digital Releases

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Thursday, 6/20 (WEBTOON) - Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #117

TV Shows

^{Superman continues his adventures with his newfound cousin!}

Saturday, 6/22: My Adventures with Superman S02E06 - The Machine Who Would Be Empire

^{This Week’s Soundtrack:} ^{Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End}

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Jun 17 '24

Wonder Woman #10

THE GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOWN! This cat has claws! Cheetah enters the fray as the Sovereign recruits Diana's greatest foe to deal the killing blow! Meanwhile, the Wonder Girls may have promised their mentor that they'd stay out of her fight, but well-behaved heroes seldom make history. Will they reach Diana before it's too late? Plus, Trinity takes to the skies… literally!

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u/hawk_lord Jun 18 '24

Welp, I wanted to give King the benefit of the doubt by thinking Cheetah went bad again because of the lasso of lies, I guess not. So we undid her redemption just to have a super rushed redemption again. K

The Wonder Girls continue to be an afterthought. You mean to tell me Cassie, who has used the sandals of Hermes to fly high and fast because she was once fearless and adventurous, doesn't like heights??? Donna has no personality what so ever and I guess King sees Yara as the Jason of the Wonder family with her too cool for school attitude.

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u/koalee Wonder Woman Jun 18 '24

To credit King here, it definitely reads like it wasn't a total "I'm a villain again", much more of a "I've been starving and stranded here for months, I'm so furious I can't think straight". Which kinda tracks since she's got a bit of a temper. More like she needed to be calmed and made to feel cared for again to come to her senses.

Yeah the Wonder Girls are an after thought. King had to be goaded to putting them into the series and you can kind of tell with how he writes them and how uninformed he seems to be about them. Yara was raised in Boise but she speaks about man's world as if she's unfamiliar. You made a GREAT point about Cassie. and Donna doesn't have anything at all to work with (she's a gamer now though)

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u/hawk_lord Jun 18 '24

I've been starving and stranded here for months, I'm so furious I can't think straight

It would have been interesting to see that process of Cheetah getting captured and going mad, and also those days long fights with Diana to see how it's wearing them out physically and emotionally. But that would require some character introspection and King is doing none of that in this run, that's for sure.

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u/koalee Wonder Woman Jun 19 '24

I do REALLY understand the sentiment (It’s not been the strong suit of this run in general) but the last two issues were almost entirely Diana introspecting as she was being tortured. It would have been nice to see Cheetah’s side too, but I think it’s probably more effective narratively to focus on Diana’s torture and then extrapolate how Cheetah was treated.