The comics “Diana, princess of the Amazons” tells about the young years of the future Wonder Woman on her island of Themyscira – DC Comics / Urban Comics
- Wonder Woman 1984, second film with Gal Gadot, is available on digital since Wednesday, after less suspense and hope of a theatrical release
- The super-heroine is, since its creation in 1940 and through its many incarnations, a “role model” for the girls, small and large.
- Comics explore her early years on Themyscira Island, or how a little mule-headed girl became the most powerful superhero
“Could I be like you later?” This sentence is spoken by a young girl after being saved by Wonder Woman in the new Zack Snyder’s Justice League. As pointed out
several spectators, it was a violent hostage-taking and the kid saw people blown up against the walls, but the intention and the inspiration are there. The superheroine also responds with a nice “You can be whatever you want”.
From its creation in 1940, not by a screenwriter but a psychologist, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman was thought of as a model for youth, a model of strong, free and courageous femininity, able to fight against the idea that women are inferior to men. If she may have had a complicated relationship with feminism in 80 years of comics, the superheroine has remained an icon for women, teenagers, but also little girls. Even the Wonder woman starring adult warrior Gal Gadot has been a source of inspiration, and cosplay, for girls ages 6 and up. Maybe that’s why the sequel Wonder Woman 1984, available since Wednesday in digital and April 7 in video, opens with a young Diana in full training on Themyscira.
The 400 strokes of Wonder Woman
Diana is shown determined and courageous, but also a mule and rebellious. Everything is already there, but it will take her a few more years, and adventures, to become the powerful, intelligent, philosopher, and a little too enamored Wonder Woman, that moviegoers know. The comics Diana, princess of the Amazons, at Urban Kids, explores those young years and tells how she leads a peaceful but lonely life, with a loving but absent mother. It doesn’t take much for her to create a not-so-imaginary friend, and do the 400 moves. Like opening the door to a prison full of monsters. Oops.
A super child before becoming a superheroine
The children’s story Dear Justice League takes inspiration at face value, as it shows DC superheroes answering questions from fans. A nice mise en abyme, where Wonder Woman gives advice to Maddy for her 11th birthday, “between island girls”, Themyscira for the first, Long Island for the second. She then remembers her 11th birthday, between games and cake. The idea is to show that any super-heroine that she is, Diana was also a child, but also a teenager in the series of comics, novels, cartoons. DC Super Hero Girls. And so that a child can become his own superheroine. “You can be whatever you want. “