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Reading Aaron Diaz's Wonder Woman
Author(s) -
Smith Philip
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12384
Subject(s) - wonder , depiction , character (mathematics) , reading (process) , magic (telescope) , narrative , representation (politics) , scholarship , art , aesthetics , art history , literature , psychoanalysis , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , linguistics , law , political science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , politics
This paper seeks, first, to provide a review of Wonder Woman scholarship to date and, second, to document the (a)e(s)th(e)tic underpinnings and execution of one depiction of Wonder Woman, a version which exists only in a single image (discussed in two separate posts), created by one Aaron Diaz, proprietor of the webcomic Dresden Codak and blog Indistinguishable from Magic . To understand Diaz's Wonder Woman we do not simply need to consider the image which Diaz drew, but the versions of the character which he seeks to critique. I seek to demonstrate that Diaz's reinvention of Wonder Woman not only fails to address many of the issues which surround the representation of gender in superhero narratives, but actively removes the potentially positive work found in other incarnations of the character.