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While I appreciate that your letter was meant for Mr. Pfiefer, I feel I must answer it because it was used in response to my own essay.

I touched upon most of your numbered points in the post above but your letter format makes it difficult to engage what you said without simply repeating what I already wrote.

I also find your last few paragraphs to be a bit tangential, but that is probably because I have already addressed them (and similar theories) on my personal blog. May I please refer you to here, here, and here for a more in-depth conversation on those topics? Please note that any comments to those posts are best made on the comment threads for the posts themselves and not in this thread.

Thank you,
Lisa

Dear Mr. Pfeifer,

Word on the Internet is that you were basically handed this story pre-plotted by DC editorial, and that you basically scripted the plot points. I don’t know how true that is, but since I am a huge fan of your H-E-R-O, CATWOMAN and AQUAMAN, I’m hoping it is indeed true. You couldn’t have possibly conceived AMAZONS ATTACK.

My issues with it are legion, but my biggest gripe is that the story, as a premise, is highly illogical—even in the magical universe of serialized fiction.

First, the Amazons would have never attacked the U.S. preemptively—even if prodded to do so by a Circe-infected Hippolyta. Why wouldn’t they? Because:

1. They’ve been down this road before and they know where it leads.

2. They have prior experience with Circe and know her to be a master manipulator (Circe has done something incredibly similar to the Amazons before). They wouldn’t have trusted her, no matter what she claimed. They also know that Diana can take care of herself, so they wouldn’t have feared for her safety.

3. The Amazon nation was no longer a monarchy. Hippolyta and Diana abolished that system of government before Hippolyta perished. Thus, Circe-infected Hippolyta’s demands held no political weight.

4. Phillipus and Artemis, the representatives of the true and current democratic nation of Themyscira, would have never allowed this. They would have certainly done more than say to Hippolyta, “This isn’t the Amazon way” as she chopped the head off of an innocent camera man.

5. The excuse that the U.S. wanted their Purple Death Ray technology also falls flat as a reason for war since the Amazons, and their nation, were removed from this reality. The U.S. had no way of making good on any efforts to obtain the Purple Death Ray since Themyscira-and its technology-was in another plane of existence.

This story actually would have made a tad bit of sense if the Amazons were being told to fight this war by Granny-Goodness-Athena since Athena is their patron goddess and they would have been compelled to obey even if they disagreed. But Granny-Goodness-Athena was actually against the war from the very beginning and made her position clear from the very beginning.

AMAZONS ATTACK was obviously a means to an editorial end, satiating corporate desire to rid Wonder Woman of those aspects of her mythos deemed “unprofitable” or “impenetrable.” I’m not sure why the human intellect is so vastly underrated at DC (or perhaps, particularly when it comes to Americans, I DO understand), but I for one loved all of the things that made Wonder Woman different from traditional superheroes: her intellect, her politics, her feminine strength, her mythology. Maybe I was in the minority.

Nevertheless, I believe a grave injustice was committed with this mini-series. It’s been careless and thoughtless—except for its loyalty to the almighty God of profit (but even that hasn’t being mindful of the long term). It’s been a cannibalization of sorts: Amazons that no longer know that they’re Amazons dispersed throughout the world (didn’t DC similarly anesthetize the White Martians in JLA?); Olympian Gods of vast power conveniently and mysteriously defeated off-panel by second-rate New Gods who have never displayed the level of power required to accomplish such a feat; psychotic, murderous Amazons who live up to every misogynist, fear-baiting, misguided thought that has ever been held of them. And I think it’s a shame that someone of your talent is associated with it all—and of course the poor, brilliant Pete Woods.

I used to think that DC had it in for Wonder Woman (and this mini-series has done nothing to dispel the thought); that there was just a blatant disrespect and disregard for the character that was so engrained in the corporate mindset that it became hidden in plain sight. And I thought that resentment stemmed from—besides the obvious “What’s this ‘girl’ doing in our Men’s Club?” mentality—the fact that DC HAD to publish Wonder Woman, whether they wanted to or not, or lose their rights to the character altogether. But I’ve taken a peek at what they’ve done (or more specifically, what they haven’t done) with Superman and I see that they have enough disrespect for their properties to spread around. The only character that seems to escape their machinations is The Bat-God (also evident in this mini-series). I wonder if that’s because Bob Kane and (presumably) his known relatives are dead and there’s no one left to sue DC for custody.

What’s worse is that the powers-that-be at DC will probably analyze the negative feedback that this series has garnered—and its less-than-spectacular performance on the sales charts (as well as its effects on the sales of the tie-in issues)—and view it as a result of the “inherent flaws” in and “disdain” for the Wonder Woman character herself, when nothing could be further from the truth. If they would simply look at Allan Heinberg’s debut issue of the current series, or Greg Rucka’s final issues of the previous series, they’d see that it’s possible to sell a WONDER WOMAN comic without destroying everything that makes Wonder Woman wonderful. What the powers-that-be consistently fail to realize is this: you can’t bake a delicious chocolate cake, cover it in feces instead of frosting, put it on sale, and then, when it doesn’t sell, come to the conclusion that people must not like chocolate cake.

Respectfully, what I believe people must not like is feces.

Cordially,

Bobby