Wonder Woman #78 & #79
Jul. 16th, 2009 02:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shankieFirst off: I has computer again! Woohoo!
It's a Gateway MD2614U laptop and it is shiny. See?
Now, to the point of this post!
I realize I don't post enough Wonder Woman; I'll try to fix that because Diana is the win. Even posting from her book, it's about Wally. Specifically, Wally being the most inept self-appointed bodyguard in the history of failed selflessness. We begin with Diana coercing Etta into eating, and out of an apparent bout of starving herself thin. The biggest eater in the world shows up to provide a glaring contrast and provide some interesting information.
Also, Brian Bolland cover for the win! Is he the greatest or what?
Dude, Wally! You had to take the food out of her hand before going for the bowl? Dick move.
I assume by "they" he means the JLI, which he was a part of at the time, based out of London. Poor Diana. She looks so good-naturedly exasperated.
Man, I haven't seen The Bodyguard in years. Totally forgot about it until this. Remember when Whitney Houston was awesome? I definitely have her first album on vinyl. She was bald.
For those of you that don't live in Flash-world so much as I do, Velocity-9 was a drug concocted by Vandal Savage; it turned people into speedsters as long as they could get a fix, until the strain made their bodies give out. Wally's powers were on the fritz a good deal of the time the junkies were paying for a dose by doing Vandal's bidding, so it was a bad scene. Also, mentioned later in a panel I'm not including because it's pretty much expostion, Wally reveals this Mayfly is a hemophiliac, so they have to be all careful or she can't give up her secrets. Like who's been hiring her.
That's definitely Etta scaring the crap out of him, and that's awesome. I think it'd be difficult to calculate how fast his hands went under the table... until the shot, that is.
So what's his big plan?
And how well does this brilliant plan work, might you ask?
About that well.
He does try so very hard.
It's a Gateway MD2614U laptop and it is shiny. See?
Now, to the point of this post!
I realize I don't post enough Wonder Woman; I'll try to fix that because Diana is the win. Even posting from her book, it's about Wally. Specifically, Wally being the most inept self-appointed bodyguard in the history of failed selflessness. We begin with Diana coercing Etta into eating, and out of an apparent bout of starving herself thin. The biggest eater in the world shows up to provide a glaring contrast and provide some interesting information.
Also, Brian Bolland cover for the win! Is he the greatest or what?
Dude, Wally! You had to take the food out of her hand before going for the bowl? Dick move.
I assume by "they" he means the JLI, which he was a part of at the time, based out of London. Poor Diana. She looks so good-naturedly exasperated.
Man, I haven't seen The Bodyguard in years. Totally forgot about it until this. Remember when Whitney Houston was awesome? I definitely have her first album on vinyl. She was bald.
For those of you that don't live in Flash-world so much as I do, Velocity-9 was a drug concocted by Vandal Savage; it turned people into speedsters as long as they could get a fix, until the strain made their bodies give out. Wally's powers were on the fritz a good deal of the time the junkies were paying for a dose by doing Vandal's bidding, so it was a bad scene. Also, mentioned later in a panel I'm not including because it's pretty much expostion, Wally reveals this Mayfly is a hemophiliac, so they have to be all careful or she can't give up her secrets. Like who's been hiring her.
That's definitely Etta scaring the crap out of him, and that's awesome. I think it'd be difficult to calculate how fast his hands went under the table... until the shot, that is.
So what's his big plan?
And how well does this brilliant plan work, might you ask?
About that well.
He does try so very hard.
Loophole!
on 2009-07-16 10:16 pm (UTC)Kyer (FanfictionNet)
Re: Loophole!
on 2009-07-17 12:10 am (UTC)Loophole!
on 2009-07-17 04:40 am (UTC)*Loudly* It was all a ploy! Look how he got Little Miss Iam-Dieting to start eating again? He does something stupid and the result is the other schmucks find it within themselves to pull through and win the day. He's using psychology! Yeah!
It's the writer's fault! It's a damned feminist Double W comic! She's anti-guy! The writers are anti-guy! Wally's not a doofus, he's---(steals line from famous movie "just drawn that way."
We should sue for defamation! Character assassination!
((P.S. Psst! How the heck did they keep a steady Flash audience if he kept doing stuff like this? Is that why they made danged sure Wally was so cute? Compensational Eye Candy? 0.o*))
On the plus side of the day, I went into a Hallmark store and discovered (gasp!) a Flash "Fastest Man Alive" (Wally West) Christmas ornament. *bounces in seat* Just who I wanted hanging around for the holidays--how'd they guess? :) And hanging right next to him is a Batman. Someone in Hallmark is into BatFlash! (That company always did have good taste.)
Re: Loophole!
on 2009-07-17 04:48 am (UTC)I did get another Flash trade today, though, (the one with this in it (http://victoria-wayne.livejournal.com/90379.html)) so... that's something, right?
But, concerning dear Wally... I must admit he was more of a dick/doofus in other people's or group books... usually. Then he'll pull shit like this to prove me wrong. (http://victoria-wayne.livejournal.com/122202.html)
Oh my.
on 2009-07-17 06:23 am (UTC)I blame his dad for not bringing him up properly. Where was Barry during that? And Aunt Iris? It's the parent's fault! *sighs* (Sometimes trying to stand by your [Flash] man is hard.)
Agh...this thing keeps thinking I'm spam. I am not mystery lunch meat. Okay, I'm the first thing and am corporeal, but I'm not anyone's lunch. *...* Unless Wally wants to dump Linda.
Trades...I have that one! I love that...it's great. In fact, I must reference it soon as I intend to insert Zoom boy into a fic and need to know how he talks. Which reminds me...I wanted to get Born to Run, Ignition, and Blitz, but...Holy Major Moolah, Bats! Are they kidding me? Can't afford to mortgage the house.
Flash Rebirth #4. They delayed? How...argh...does that mean Target is going to delay selling the trade? -_-;;
Don't be jealous. Be jealous if I ever find that Wally figurine that official DC Comics website is advertising will come on sale in a few months. It's got muscle detail up the wazoo. Lookin'Good, FMA! If only they'd make one where he's got that silly hood down and his hair is all wind blown and...is it hot in here?
Kyer (FanfictionNet)
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on 2009-07-17 10:58 am (UTC)And I secretly like Wally being kind of a bimbo. It's cute. "Just because he has super-speed doesn't mean he *thinks* any faster, you know."
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on 2009-07-17 11:46 am (UTC)But, yeah, clueless is cute here. And WW does look very well drawn.
Kyer (ffn)