A new Wonder Woman comic book by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette has had prudish reviewers complaining – but bondage is part of the character’s DNA
“Stop portraying women being chained up in some skeevy pose!” That’s the outraged pronouncement of Goodreads critic Anne in a spoiler-filled review getting a lot of attention among comic book fans.
Anne is critiquing the eagerly anticipated Wonder Woman Earth One by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette, due out in the spring. Wonder Woman is supposed to be an icon of feminism, Anne argues; her isolated homeland of Paradise Island is supposed to be an empowered all-female community. But Morrison and Paquette instead put her in bondage poses. They also present the Amazons as lesbians who, Anne says with disdain, “do sexy lesbian things”. Anne also objects to the prominence of a rotund sorority girl named Beth who helps Wonder Woman out – and to the Amazon’s giant battle kangaroos. Or, as Anne says, what the hell “are they jousting on kangaroos for?!”
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