
While I'm hip-deep in wishful thinking, I can't help but dwell on her connection to the Olympian gods, & how I'd play that. Tricky. Lately I've been thinking-- well, okay. The New Gods appear in the wake of a smashed Bifrost Bridge, right? Why not just...keep stretching that? Make Themyscria the last refuge of the Old Gods. Sure, many of them are dead, but there are still remnants, avatars, projections-- what have you-- lingering in the pocket dimension of Themyscria. I mean-- & I still think making her invisible jet-- the Wonder Dome-- should absolutely be her artificial intelligence sidekick. & why not carry that on? Make the Amazons part of some protoculture of advanced magi-tech society? It lets you bring some interesting angles on-- the Purple Death Ray or whatever that is, plus hey, rainbows? I figure rainbows are the Old God equivalent of Boom Tubes. I admit that I like a "rejiggered" pantheon-- one of the most interesting things about the new Wonder Woman comics is positioning Athena as the new Queen of Olympus. I totally agree with that, I really like it. I think Wonder Woman should have a mish-mash of deities sitting in hiding in an alternate dimension, an island in the stream. Athena as Queen & I guess Ares has to be in there as war, but put in Norse, Hawaiian, Aztec, whatever. You don't have to pin it down in advance. I like the idea that, if the Durlans come to invade Earth or something, Wonder Woman will show up on the front lines with Medusa's head in one hand, turning folks to stone; if energy beings possess people she should use Shiva's Trishula to destroy their aspect in the spiritual world. That sort of thing. Just mix it all up; myth & magic, tech & wonder. Same difference!