Monday, 26 March 2012  On Wonder Woman #7  Of all of the flak
fired up to obscure the mean-spirited, thick-headed sexism of
Brian Azzarello's script for Wonder Woman #7, the most
stubbornly effective has been the claim that his recasting of
DC's Amazons is true to the warrior women's mythic roots.
Resorting to such an argument has a particular appeal to
fanboys, of course, because it calls upon the sacred pseudo-
objective principles of continuity, which justify the side-
stepping of any reasoned ethical debate in the name of fictional
precedent. As such, Azzarello's decision to portray the Amazons
as sexual predators who murder their partners, and who would
have slaughtered their male offspring too if a kindly male god
hadn't taken the be-testicled babies off of their hands, can be
excused simply by saying Them Greeks Said That's What Them
Amazons Did A Long, Long Time Ago. Fanboys who'd never expect
the details of the origins of the Fantastic Four in 1961 to be
taken literally today have no problem, it seems,