Ten Things I Love About Comics--#1I came across this theme at
Michele Catalano's blog, but it apparently
started here. I don't think I could come up with 100 things I love about comics, so I thought I'd do ten to start and see where it goes from there. This is in no particular order.
First up, is the Golden Age Wonder Woman. If you grew up in the 1960s like I did, you probably remember Wonder Woman as one of the absolute worst comics of all time, with lousy artwork, atrocious stories and horrific editing. Ah, but in the 1940s Wonder Woman was one of the most consistently interesting series with lots of kinky sexual overtones.
Consider this panel from Sensation Comics #9:
Diana gets manhandled and clearly finds it quite arousing.
The Holliday Girls (led by Etta Candy) provided comic relief. Note that the girl "assuming the position" is about to get whacked by a paddle, and remember this was about 35 years prior to Animal House.