No, wait, there is a new WORST THING.

[odditycollector]

From here:

In DC COMICS-THE NEW 52, Wonder Woman will have a new origin, in which she is the daughter of Hippolyta... and Zeus! In recent interviews, writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang have teased that readers should expect the unexpected in this edgier, horror take on the superhero genre ­and the king of the gods will ensure that nothing goes as planned for his defiant daughter.

Originally created by the goddess Aphrodite and raised to perfection on the Amazon island of Themiscyra, the newest incarnation of Wonder Woman has a new costume and now a new origin ­but she remains Wonder Woman.

Yes that is what the Wonder Woman story was missing. A father figure with control issues.

I don't understand why everything is terrible for always.

Comments

[fightingarrival]

I personally choose to believe that it's because the universe has a vendetta against me and has a vested interest in me being unhappy. It's like they don't want me to read their *anything*. Also fuck them and their "relatable" shit.

Can an alternate universe Superboy punch a hole in time yet? How about now?

[liviapenn]

I am glad I am in fandom where people understand HOW FUCKED UP THIS IS. Like I could explain it to my sister and she would probably listen, but she just wouldn't understand that this is the WRONGEST THING EVER TO WRONG.

[seeking-avalon.blogspot.com]

I started writing a response to you, but it became a post. Short version: WTF Kevin Sorbo's Hercules?!! Male pov to tell a woman's story?!!

[petra]

Whenever I think of the DCU, I think it needs more hypercontrolling fucked-up daddy figures. Always.

*headdesks*

[mara]

I...but...that...

Just when I think things can't get any worse...sure enough, they do. It's almost as if they sat down and said "What would really make sure no woman ever ever ever picks up one of our new comics again?" and then implemented those things.

Please tell me it's still safe to buy my daughter Tiny Titans? Pretty please?

[odditycollector]

You mean the series where the rapist works as an elementary school teacher?

As. Far. As. I. Know.

[musesfool]

Ugh ugh ugh. NO. DO NOT WANT. And it had a fairly promising start, too. Sigh.

[thefourthvine]

So I guess we'll also discover that she does pole dancing at a strip club on the weekends, just to relax and meet men? And then, in issue 24, father and daughter will be reconciled when he has to come save her from Deathstroke?

[caiusmajor]

I DON'T KNOW. Apparently DC hates everything that is good and right in the world. D:

[greenygal]

Screw it. I'm going back to my Perez trades and their stories ABOUT WOMEN, DAMMIT.

[foolsguinea]

Zeus? Freaking Zeus?

Oh good grief.

Really, this is what happens when you try to reuse trademarks to tell stories about what are new characters.

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

Dammit DC! Stop this crap.

Our only hope now is that Darwyn Cooke, Gail Simone, and Bruce Timm stage a bloody coup. A bloody, bloody coup.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

They have fucked up EVERY part of the DCU I was vaguely interested in still. Like there was a checklist.