Wonder Women is a fictional super-heroine appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. In the 1940s, psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston discussed how there was unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium and wanted to create his own new superhero who would triumph not with fists or firepower, but with love. It was his wife that suggested it should be a women. Marston and artist Harry G. Peter created a warrior princess of the Amazonian people.
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Women Women, originally named ‘Suprema’, first appeared in comic ALL STAR COMICS #8 in 1941 and due to the popularity, a year later in 1942, Wonder Women #1 was debuted. The origin story is that Women Woman was sculpted from clay by her mother Queen Hippolyta and given life by Athena, along with superhuman powers as gifts by the Greek Gods. Over the years, artists have changed Women Woman’s appearance, for example, George Perez gave her a muscular look and emphasised her Amazonian heritage.
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Marston designed Wonder Woman to be an allegory for the ideal love leader; the kind of women who should run society. This was succeeded as the character evolved as a frontrunner for the suffragettes who fought for the rights of women in the early 20th century. Marston, his wife Elizabeth and Olivia put their feminist ideals together to create a superhero character that young boys and girls will look up to. To do this, William presented Wonder Women with all the strength as Superman but with the goodness and beautiful nature of a women. Wonder Woman's bracelets were drawn from inspiration from the type of bracelets Olivia Byrne wore. Volume 1: The Lies was released February 2017 and was created by writer Greg Rucka and artists Liam Sharp and Matthew Clark.
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Wonder Woman Over Time
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Kade is a fictional comic book character who was created by Sean O’Reilly. Alex Niklovitch is the writer for the Kade comic book series. The character features in the comic books published by Arcana Studios, a Canadian comic and animation company. The character first appeared in Kade: Identity #1 in 2003.
The story of the character is set during the Iron Age, when Kade was born a Child of the Black Sun, and it wasn’t until his death as an infant that his powers were expressed. He becomes a warrior who has been given gifts to hunt the demons of the world. Kade is human but has powers of agility, danger sense, darkforce manipulation, energy shield, healing, super strength and swordsmanship. So far, Kade has appeared in 33 issues. |
The comic book character, Ezra, was also created by Sean O’Reilly and features through Arcana Studio comics. Ezra first appeared in the first Arcana Studio comic book, Kade #1, released in 2003.
Ezra background is similar to the character Kade, by being a Child of the Black Sun and the Key of the Kingdom to Heaven, and the Chain to the Abyss of Hell. Like Kade, she is immortal and can rapidly heal from any wound and has the powers to sense evil, though the negative side is that she cannot feel anything from her body such as pain. Ezra was among the first Children of the Black Sun, and struggled to understand her role as a Gothic demon hunter. The comic Ezra: Envoked Emotions in 2008 shows the character’s transformation into an ageless demon hunter. |
How meaning is created through camera angles - Cropped images with the zoomed version of the character’s eyes was to show the detail and reflection of the eyes as well as the expression of the character. This technique was also used to follow into into a flashback of that particular character and is used as a transition, to break the narrative.The angle of the drawn action also creates meaning, for example, a high angle of the character Erin makes her look small and vulnerable. Further meaning is created through the colours as they portray the emotions of that scene.
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Erin - The character Erin tends to follow the rules. She lives a normal life at Stony Stream, based in Ohio with her family, and shares a room with her younger sister. Erin and her family have recently moved, and through this, audience members can relate to the awkwardness Erin has by being the ‘new kid’.
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Mac - Mac is Irish-American from a lower class background and has heaps of attitude. She was the first paperboy in Stony Stream who is not a boy. It can argued that Mac overcompensates with her confidence to balance out the instability in her upbringing. She has cropped and messy hair, which could connote to her unstable, sharp defensive with how she is around others.
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KJ - KJ attends the Buttonwood Academy, which is a up-scale school and is a hockey player. Throughout the comic, KJ is seen with a hockey stick which in one scene becomes useful as she uses at a weapon to defend themselves from enemies. Audience members from a upper class background could relate to KJ’s background or athletic readers.
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Tiffany - Tiffany, “Tiff”, attends the St. Pete’s Catholic school with Erin. She is adopted and is represented as physically adept in the group. From Mac's house, they take with them a gun to protect themselves and Tiff is presented as straight-shooter. She often worries about losing their hard-earned, much-loved walkie-talkies.
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