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Amazons Attack was a comic book miniseries about the Amazons from the peaceful Paradise Island called Themyscira where they would practice activities such as training for war that they oh so hated more than anything in the world, which is why they sent a representative to show that they were a peaceful people who hate people who were well trained in the ways of war.
Wait, what?
You see, the Amazons had a history of contradictions and things that just simply didn't make sense. In some versions of their story they were a highly advanced society with technology such as a purple healing way and Invisible Airplanes. In other versions, that seem to be more prominently known to people who don't truly know the history of the character, they choose to be behind in technology and don't need things such as cars and airplanes. I mean, it's one island and a small one at that. Why would they need technology for traveling around the world? This is a fictional civilization that had an undetermined reason for living, an undetermined living and an undetermined history.
When I first heard about Amazons Attack! I actually got very excited about it. It seemed that DC would finally use this to it's advantage instead of just ignoring the fact that the Amazons are a weird civilization different from ours. It could have been a unique opportunity to fix this and make it a DC Company wide event at the same time.
The characters and even how they were portrayed could have been brilliant. The returning queen Hyppolytaa is given her throne back by the Amazon leaders, Phillipus and Artemis who are also returning to the DC Universe. They expect her to lead the Amazons back to greatness. Back to power, and back to their loving princess Diana. Then tragically it appears Hyppolyta had gone insane on her return from Hades lair, and wished for war to come, not realizing she is following her enemy, Ares's protocol on how things work.
This is what happened, but I simply made it sound better than it really was. This is what actually happened:
Hyppolyta comes back from the dead and is queen again for no reason whatsoever. Her daughter is coincidentally in jail at the time so she decides to wage war on Man's World. Oh, also Phillipus and Artemis forget that they have any leadership in the Amazononian community, only wondering if they should maybe tell their queen that maybe raging an all out war with no clear motivation isn't such a good idea.
That's not the only good premise waisted sadly.
The Amazons weren't all on Paradise Island. No I'm not talking about Diana, I'm talking about the tribe of hundreds (or possibly thousands given how much of a dense population the current writer will decide they should have). The Amazons of Bana-Mighdall, a splinter group of the regular Amazons who left for reasons to do with the Invasion of Heracles. They ended up being bad guys in this storyline and it could have been done in a mature way with the writer showing yet another different culture at war and depending on how it went, either allying themselves with the Amazons or having it become a three-way war. (Yes I know that they joined with the Amazons of Paradise Island, but the writer of Amazons Attack! didn't) Instead it's just more females attacking because they are females who are from a war -like society.
In the end, it becomes evident that the writers and editors of this storyline didn't grasp what could have come out of Amazons Attack and only used it as a means to make money or give Wonder Woman one time of being a lead in an event which hurt the book.
When I first heard about Amazons Attack! I actually got very excited about it. It seemed that DC would finally use this to it's advantage instead of just ignoring the fact that the Amazons are a weird civilization different from ours. It could have been a unique opportunity to fix this and make it a DC Company wide event at the same time.
The characters and even how they were portrayed could have been brilliant. The returning queen Hyppolytaa is given her throne back by the Amazon leaders, Phillipus and Artemis who are also returning to the DC Universe. They expect her to lead the Amazons back to greatness. Back to power, and back to their loving princess Diana. Then tragically it appears Hyppolyta had gone insane on her return from Hades lair, and wished for war to come, not realizing she is following her enemy, Ares's protocol on how things work.
This is what happened, but I simply made it sound better than it really was. This is what actually happened:
Hyppolyta comes back from the dead and is queen again for no reason whatsoever. Her daughter is coincidentally in jail at the time so she decides to wage war on Man's World. Oh, also Phillipus and Artemis forget that they have any leadership in the Amazononian community, only wondering if they should maybe tell their queen that maybe raging an all out war with no clear motivation isn't such a good idea.
That's not the only good premise waisted sadly.
The Amazons weren't all on Paradise Island. No I'm not talking about Diana, I'm talking about the tribe of hundreds (or possibly thousands given how much of a dense population the current writer will decide they should have). The Amazons of Bana-Mighdall, a splinter group of the regular Amazons who left for reasons to do with the Invasion of Heracles. They ended up being bad guys in this storyline and it could have been done in a mature way with the writer showing yet another different culture at war and depending on how it went, either allying themselves with the Amazons or having it become a three-way war. (Yes I know that they joined with the Amazons of Paradise Island, but the writer of Amazons Attack! didn't) Instead it's just more females attacking because they are females who are from a war -like society.
In the end, it becomes evident that the writers and editors of this storyline didn't grasp what could have come out of Amazons Attack and only used it as a means to make money or give Wonder Woman one time of being a lead in an event which hurt the book.
