Superman Wonder Woman Embrace.

By  Gene Espy

 

A very sensual and romantic piece. Very superior work with pencils. It's fluid and bursting with sexual intensity. You could feel and hear hear the air crackle around them as their bodies meld together. Their physiques are both strong, but Kal is utterly masculine and Diana very feminine even as they surrender to the moment and each other.

Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #93

I am not too sure what to make of this story but it's hilarious in its cliches. Lois,as we will see in many stories to come, is jealous of Diana and feels she wants her man and, of course, Superman,who does not seem to think he is exclusively her man, is a jerk. It still is Diana in the I-Ching Era and here she is in her boutique. Boy, DC sure knew how to pick some jobs for Diana. But even though this book is about Lois being a martyr over that mean, mean Superman...Superman and Diana are having fun while Lois whines and pines.Really,can you blame the guy? Which woman would you actually want to be with? And, Lois, I am sorry, but get a life.

She decides to challenge Diana for Superman's love and gets bitch slapped in the process. Superman watches the two and is quite comfortable with their shenanigans. Even after Lois loses out to Diana, she decides to spy on them. Wow. Really, DC must be writing satire or comedy here. But Lois Lane comics were a bit like that. There was nothing remotely inspirational here and to feel sympathy for Lois, Superman had often to be written as a jerk. So what does that say about that relationship?

In the end of course it turns out the real Diana was imprisoned somewhere and this was an escaped Kryptonian villainess. The real Diana would be rescued and all will once more be well between Lois and Superman. I think dysfunctional would be a better way to describe it all. Even though Superman had fallen in love with Diana and was going to marry her, he came to his senses. He suddenly cared for Lois too much. Aren't you lucky, Lois, to have that back pedaling man? And when you think DC could only do this sort of thing back then, you'd be surprise to know they can write rubbish in current continuity too.

World's Finest # 204 Superman Wonder Woman

So in this issue Superman teams up with Diana Prince. It's got rioting students, a supercomputer in the future and a race to save a guy who apparently will be savior to humanity.

I Ching tells Diana she needs to have some fun and he suggests she needs to date. He gives her an application form for a computer dating service. Clark Kent is also given an application form by Perry White because he wants him to do it for a news story. Clark is very skeptical but he does it anyway since it is work related. A few days later Diana is about to meet "the man of her dreams."
 

Turns out she knows this man. And he knows her.




It's a little odd their interaction as if they never worked closely before. It does feel off. Like two strangers meeting when in JLA they are always together and touching and giving each other soulful looks. Anyway they decide they'll go on the date and see how it goes.

Of course they are mugged and Diana shows that she can take care of herself.

After Diana deals with the muggers, they get sucked into the future and meet a Supercomputer than tells them that it was the reason they got matched up, since they are two most perfect and extraordinary beings on the planet and they had to save a man from dying in a riot; and if they didn't the earth would become a mass waste land due to war and pollution. Seems it can send out probes in the time stream and it implanted the thoughts of the blind date in I-Ching and Perry White's minds to get Clark and Diana together. Hmm, all that just to facilitate a blind date and some cuddling? They could have just shown me a whole issue of cuddling. I would not have complained.

It's an attempt, I guess, to highlight social causes and use some troupes in Time Travel. Have We Met Yet? Bad Future. Even Star Crossed Lovers. They stop the riot and Diana does manage to hold her own despite being just a normal woman but Superman still has to help her out when she is shot at. So after the dust nearly settles, Diana admits that she wouldn't mind getting to know him better. He is clearly not minding the idea seeing he wants to lay one on her. Now as to why they shouldn't? Beats me. They not with anyone. Both single and in their primes. So what is the problem? The noose of Lois and Steve, I assume, who never let anything stop them from dating when they were single. But DC must keep Superman and Wonder Woman guilty for acting like a normal red blooded man and woman. Oh, as to whether they managed to save that savior guy when they quelled the riot? Well, seems the future is unwritten and they won't know until it is too late.

Wonder Woman Surrenders Her Powers

Justice League of America # 69

The I-Ching Era was DC taking away the powers of one of their most powerful heroines to give her the Modesty Blase/ Emma Peel treatment, I imagine. The idea any hero would renounce his/her gifts for some vague, crappy, patronizing reasons never sits well with me. But it seems Steve Trevor was wrongfully accused of murder and she can't help him as herself. Oh no. She needs to go underground to find the culprit and she needs to be "powerless" to do this.  She was taken under the wing of a Chinese mentor called I Ching, who taught her martial arts and weapons training. Yes, Amazonian training is nothing important. They are not warriors. And even if she was depowered, she could not do anything so silly as remember it. Anyway she stays like this for two years, where she is Diana Prince and she has spy like adventures and runs a boutique. Oh Diana. Anyway, she breaks it to the Justice League that she has to leave them, cause powerless she is useless. Cough, Batman? Green Arrow? Superman refuses to accept her resignation and says he will give her a leave of absence. And Barry (the Flash) picks up on the fact that Clark and Diana have feelings for each other and that there has always been a sense of inevitability with them. Only as with many instances, bad timing and well, DC steps in and they lose each other.

Yes, Madame Ambassador

By Meejay7

I adore this image. Madame Ambassador clearly has finished dealing with all those stuffy diplomats and now she is ready to spend some time with a certain mild mannered reporter.