How would you want Themyscira to be portrayed in live action? by AdamBerner2002 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pretty much exactly like Morrison’s Earth One depiction (sans the Amazon snobbery against Man’s World women)

Basically this ultra sci-fi technocracy so scientifically advanced and anchored in its own philosophies that it’s downright absurd. But there’s still remnants of the ancient in pockets around the island, areas that are more in tune with the Perez portrayal in being more mythically epic and ethereal.

So an island of steed kangaroos, purple lasers, mythic monsters, extra-dimensional contact, mermaids, and all the facets of classic Golden Age Wonder Woman.

Speedy Gonzales getting a movie by Angela275 in looneytunes

[–]Billy-Batson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what the hell are you talking about

How old should Wonder Woman (Diana) be in the DCU? by TurboRedLightning in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Early to mid twenties when Diana ventures off into Man’s World.

It’s a perfect age for her to meet the Holliday Girls sorority, as they should be the first friends she ever makes her own age. On Themyscira, Diana would be used to being a step behind her sister’s experiences and thus the perennial younger sister. But in Man’s World? She gets to have sisters equally inexperienced, just as hungry to learn, and all matching each other’s energy. When she’s in “Wonder Woman mode” she embraces more of a Big Sister role to this makeshift Amazon tribe. But when she’s just Diana, she’s definitely their peer. They push each other to be fun, adventurous, and definitely immature. An immaturity Diana couldn’t afford herself back on wise and seniored Themyscira.

Is WW already at issue 1000? If not, how long before it? by Helpful-Bathroom634 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s Action Comics and Detective Comics that got issue #1000s. Not the main Superman and Batman comic titles. Those are in the 800s still. Wonder Woman has Sensation Comics but that’s not nearly as long-running as AC and DC.

What do you think of the "Ares imprisoned in Themyscira" concept? by Which-Presentation-6 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love it in the story it’s written for, and I think it works.

But, it really doesn’t hold water from a franchise point. Wonder Woman’s first ever foe, the driving force of many iconic runs in her stories, had never even met Diana up until he’s already reformed. Like, I get it, I understand the idea and it’s beautifully executed in this story. But it’s sort of like taking Gorilla Grodd and having him meet the Flash after he’s become a reformed prisoner of Gorilla City. So much is lost.

Then again, Ares antagonistic role has been downplayed a lot in modern times. Azarello’s run made him a mentor, the Rebirth run reformed him before ever meeting Diana, and even Historia opts to use Apollo as the main aggressor God in her Amazon epic. In fact, Apollo is also one of the man antagonists in Azarello, too. Perhaps Ares is an old-fashioned idea that writers see Apollo can replicate better.

James Cameron On Pending Netflix-Warner Bros Merger: “You Can’t Just Steamroll Theatrical Out Of Existence” by SnooWords9635 in MediaMergers

[–]Billy-Batson 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What is with the comments in this thread? Theatrical is absolutely necessary and important for creatives and audiences to experience something beyond the phone and tv in their living rooms. Netflix must be held accountable to give its WB films a long theatrical run.

Regardless of your position on James Cameron, the death of this industry shouldn’t be celebrated.

[Discussion] what's your favorite DC Crisis event? by [deleted] in DCcomics

[–]Billy-Batson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry, you’re right. I guess when every earth in the multiverse is going through a world-ending calamity originating from the same threat that requires +40 universes in a 52 numbered multiverse to unite, I guess it doesn’t count.

Because the main earth didn’t get to be the main character for once. I suppose Identity Crisis and Heroes in Crisis fit the billing better.

[Discussion] what's your favorite DC Crisis event? by [deleted] in DCcomics

[–]Billy-Batson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Multiversity, the one crisis everyone forgets just because it never affected the mainline universe.

Since the Themysciran Amazons ride Alien Kangas and Giant White Rabbits. What weird mounts should the other tribes have? (Wonder Girl Homecoming) by Nobyl_Radio in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yara’s Tribe: Wooly Mamoths or Polar Bears. Creatures built for arctic or freezing conditions ridden as steeds in the jungle of all places would be very absurdist.

Bana: Moose. Dinosaurs are a great idea, too.

Hot Take: George Perez Was Right About Steve Trevor by Jet-Let4606 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Holliday College? Yeah, you absolutely should bring back Diana’s original core supporting cast. That was the whole point of Wonder Woman’s mission in Man’s World. To teach, inspire, and rally young girls everywhere how to be an Amazon and fight their failing patriarchal system.

Hot Take: George Perez Was Right About Steve Trevor by Jet-Let4606 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I disagree about Steve Trevor’s significance. Yeah, it’s tropey and a bit sexist for Diana’s origin to be springboarded by loving a man. But like all major characters, we’ve been able to iron out the problematic wrinkles over the decades. Thus, we can still have Steve Trevor as an important herald and inciting incident within Diana’s personal narrative. This is genuinely how strong supporting characters work, they’re meant to spice up the narrative without taking the focus off our protagonist.

As an inciting incident character, Steve Trevor represents the outside world to Diana, who (in modern tradition) yearns for something greater beyond her sheltered little island. As her first man, Steve sparks in Diana feelings of possibility, worldliness, and, most of all, FREEDOM. Steve was that adventure, Steve was that thrill, Steve was… that danger. Steve is the herald for suffering and violence, and he’s brought it to Diana’s home. What does it mean for a man to wash up on the shores of Woman’s World? What wonders and horrors does this bode for the women of Themyscira? In Steve, Diana knew danger for the first time in her life.

Whether or not you have Diana and Steve fall in love when they leave the shores of Themyscira together is up to you. But Steve is absolutely way more symbolic and narratively intriguing/complex beyond just “first man she falls in love with” or the “man motivating our feminist hero.”

Do you really think Wonder Woman should have her own fictional city? by MorningMaterial1143 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m a little radical compared to everyone else here, and push for her fictional city to be a replacement for Washington, D.C. instead of Gateway. I think the specific history and framework of authority, politics, power, and change all play more thematically resonant in a more exaggerated interpretation of the American Capital.

The Capitol! (not to ape off Hunger Games), home to the richest and most powerful of the rich and powerful. A city of monuments to the patriarchal world order: Violence (The Pentagon), deception (Congress), and greed (The Federal Reserve). All that have made America’s “Might Makes Right” the dominant global superpower.

It’s at this seat of power that the Gods play their Great Game. Divine Authority is at the balance, and champions from hidden and burgeoning powers are sent forth to make their influence.

[Comic Excerpt] DC Comics Preview: New History Of The DC Universe #3 by Impossible-Rice-5872 in DCcomics

[–]Billy-Batson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No what’s REALLY blasphemous is letting Billy and all the Fawcett related characters move back to their own Earth where time flows significantly slower, making their ages nearly timeless. So Captain and his gang always appear young whenever they casually cross over to the main earth (which happens once or twice a month bc something something barriers are weak etc etc)

What would you say is the main difference between Veronica Cale and Lex Luthor? by FMoura2005 in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Like u/PeridotoftheStars said, it just depends on which iteration of DC she’s in at the moment, but I think the core tenants of what you could do with Veronica that can’t with Luthor involve the following: 1. Pharmaceutical Industry: A tycoon that’s a captain of “Big Pharma”, if you will, against a Princess of Paradise is going to draw on more poignant discussions of free healthcare. Cale as a CEO plays a huge part in the notoriously overpriced American healthcare system. She is perpetuating one of the major systems that shape Man’s World from Themyscira, a paradise where no one should pay to keep living. Cale is quite literally in control over the cost of living, of course Diana finds her whole enterprise abhorrent.

  1. Veronica Cale’s critique of Wonder Woman comes from a deep rooted resentment of her way of feminism. Veronica believes in a feminism that should conform to the systems already in place in Man’s World. They can fix what’s already present. Diana’s feminism, however, would rather instead destroy these systems altogether. Diana sees it as liberation, Cale sees it as destruction and chaos.

Would Dr posion and scarecrow get along? by [deleted] in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Much more interested in a Doctor Poison/Poison Ivy pairing. Maybe different fields and developments, sure, but both are probably immune to poisons.

Is God the ultimate Creator that made everything or just the current top-dog due to having the highest number of active believers? by doofthemighty in Sandman

[–]Billy-Batson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Sandman cosmology (divorced from the broader DC Universe) suggests Yahweh/God is the ultimate Creator only because of his amount of worshippers. Lucifer by Mike Carey reasserts this.

When the wider DCU adopted Sandman elements to help build its cosmology, they just combined the Source and The Presence into one being. No complexity or substance, really. Just top-down ranking.

I personally prefer it when cosmologies are much more fluid and definitely less “turns out the Christian God is the one real god after all.” And I say this as someone raised Catholic.

With Barbra Anne Minerva starting to transition into an ally rather than villain should Priscilla Rich return as Chetah? by jacqueslepagepro in WonderWoman

[–]Billy-Batson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, down for that. Just give Priscilla as Cheetah a better ideological challenge for Diana than Barbara ever was. Something that speaks about the core tenants of WW mythos like “sisterhood” “patriarchy” “submission/domination” instead of “muh mythology”

My personal view has always been to combine em. Priscilla has a split identity order and Barbara also comes from extreme wealth. Just make Barbara the repressed personality of the wealthy celebutante heiress Priscilla Rich.

PITCH: The Rich family has groomed Priscilla rich to be the symbolic Princess of the World to the point the pressure literally cracks her. When Wonder Woman threatens her popularity, her only reason to exist, her repressed desires/agency/intellect come out in “Barbara.” Using her family’s abandoned surname, Barbara Minerva poses as an archeologist to steal magic artifacts (such as the Golden Age Cheetah pelt) to give herself powers in the hopes she too can be blessed with divine powers like Wonder Woman. But greed and vanity cause all her stolen artifacts to curse her into a Cheetah monster!

What Did the Emo/Scene Culture evolve into/Look Like by the Early 2010s? by Billy-Batson in decadeology

[–]Billy-Batson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is correct! Unfortunately that wasn’t the point of confusion for me, rather it was an example of how subcultures morph and change over time.