Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at Wonder Woman if invented by Stan Lee!

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Originally uploaded July 20th, 2015.

ORIGINAL INFO: Strength, compassion, wisdom… and a really kick-ass costume.

RUMINATIONS: What I’ll definitely give credit to for this version of Wonder Woman is that it tried to explore mythology that is often ignored in superhero comics. Everyone in superhero books LOVES to trot out the Greek Gods or the Norse Gods, maybe a little Japanese mythology to get their “Honor” quota in or something, but Mesoamerican mythology is rarely looked at. Off the top of my head I can think of the New 52 Blue Beetle and that’s pretty much it. Not to say that other such heroes don’t exist, just that I’m struggling to think of any examples of it. Mythology is a very vast and diverse thing, with every culture on earth having varied Gods and stories with which they could utilize. These days, those stories have a crapton of opportunities to be told thanks to the internet making it easier than ever to research this stuff. Stan Lee’s Wonder Woman doesn’t do MUCH with it, but there’s clearly an opportunity for growth and exploration here. Wonder Woman in general tends to be the book that acknowledges all religions are valid by virtue of its acknowledgment of the Greek Gods as being real entities. After all, you open the floodgates to one group of Gods and it’s hard to deny all the other ones. As a result, there have been at least two events in Wonder Woman where several pantheons went to war with each other. Pretty neat, if you think about it.

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