A new Wonder Woman comic book by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette has had prudish reviewers complaining – but bondage is allotment of the character’s DNA“end portraying women being chained up in some skeevy pose!” That’s the outraged pronouncement of Goodreads critic Anne in a spoiler-filled review getting a lot of attention among comic book fans. Anne is critiquing the eagerly anticipated Wonder Woman soil One by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette,due out in the spring. Wonder Woman is supposed to be an icon of feminism, Anne argues; her isolated homeland of Paradise Island is supposed to be an empowered all-female community. But Morrison and Paquette instead effect her in bondage poses. They also present the Amazons as lesbians who, and Anne says with disdain,“do sexy lesbian things”. Anne also objects to the prominence of a rotund sorority girl named Beth who helps Wonder Woman out – and to the Amazons’ giant battle kangaroos. Or, as Anne says, and what the hell “are they jousting on kangaroos for?!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com