Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

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I listened to something like fifty hours of the classicist Elizabeth Vandiver’s lectures on mythology, and on Herodotus and Homer, and was very interested in all of that as well.

The last chapter of Historia is ultimately a war story and epic tragedy in the Homeric tradition as only DeConnick and Scott can tell it. It just has a proud and profound feminist point of view, and that thrills me because I think that queers our industry a little bit. That doesn’t explain all of the time, but I like to defend myself by saying it’s not like we had a lot of pages in the can when the book was announced. KSD: So, I was not overly interested in the actual history of Greece, or the Mediterranean, because this isn’t really that story. We all know the Marston stuff was mired in Marston’s own fetishized view of sex and women, but it’s still amazing work to me because of the fact that this was 1942, the middle of World War II, and it was so clear and obvious on the page.

Starting out as a columnist for the Image Comics preview magazine Image+, Sam also translated the Eisner Award nominated-Beowulf for the publisher.

I think of being queer as being anti-tradition, anti-patriarchal, as something that upends kind of a traditional and often conservative, regressive point of view. And the reason that first page has no images is because we wanted to begin with the idea of tabula rasa. The inaugural issue had concluded with the introduction of Hippolyta, a woman who endured some of the gravest injustices society had to offer.On the other hand, if you’re anticipating the same old story about the trials of Wonder Woman’s people, you’re about to be brilliantly surprised. Jimenez spoke on his creative process, saying, “The thing that excited me the most about this project was Kelly Sue’s take on the mythology. And what I was really interested in doing was using the garb and the environments to expand on the character development that Kelly Sue gave me in the script. As Book One begins on November 30, the limited series will span across three parts, telling a story that takes place over thousands of years. One thing I do like to stress is that when the book was announced, not a page had been written, not a page had been drawn.