u/Chumlee1917

I’d like to think she-hulk heard Petra was changing and growing big due to whats happening and showed up one morning at her apartment with bags of clothes and stuff to help Petra get used to being a big lady like Jen. And Petra is super appreciative to have someone she can talk to about being a 7 foot tall lady who gets it

I know this has been said before but really, Wonder Woman does feel like they’ve been afraid for years now until Absolute Wonder Woman to let her have her own unique angle in exploring and using magic and having that be a big part of her story. she’s got the Greek gods and monsters and half her villains involve magic of one kind or another but then it’s like they don’t want to take the next step. i know I’ve said it before, but there’s plenty of fertile ground here for Wonder Woman to really flex and stand out. And to really develop Wonder Woman with other Magic based characters like Zatanna or Swamp Thing and maybe I’m just being naive and this is happening and I don’t know it.

or maybe it’s because DC would go, “why would we do any of that when we got Batman to do all that.”

I found an omnibus of the original run of Creature Commandos from the 1980s and while reading it, had a lightbulb moment as to how to do something different with the idea of a monster squad in WW2

still all in the air but basically Wonder Woman is asked by the allies to use her knowledge and training of magic and the world of gods and monsters to lead the Creature Commandos with Steve Trevor and Sgt Rock against Paula Von Gunther and her army of nazi monster men.

i dunno just something to try different with Wonder Woman since they always give Batman all the cool ideas.

if people react positively I might pick at it more

This all started from this weekend reading Greg Rucka's Year One. And something was bothering me because the rest of the comic I would give anywhere from an 8-9/10............except for Ares who I found to be the weakest part. And then it got me thinking that Ares for me has been one of those Wonder Woman villains who gets boiled down to again and again, big guy in a tin suit with horns and well....I just don't think that's how he should be.

Now by all means if you know a writer/arc that does it better, please tell me. But to continue

I think, if I was doing it, Ares should be more "abstract" as in, yes there is Ares the God of War, but like how the 2017 movie did it....till it dropped the ball, in that Ares doesn't do anything directly, but he's a presence, the little devil on the shoulder whispering in people's ears feeding their anger, their hatreds, all he does is suggest and encourage people to do the worst option, but, and this would have to tie into how the other gods of Olympus are written, he's not directly showing up with a spear and magic helmet to smash up the place. And when he does show up, in disguise, would be like Nic Cage's character in The Lord of War offering gifts of great and terrible weapons to those eager to use his services. Or he finds and creates metahuman villains for Diana to deal with while he can turn to Olympus and act like his hands are clean.

So then, when Diana shows up and confronts him the first time, see a scene of him and Diana standing in like Rome or Sparta, and he goes, "I may be the God of War, but these humans, they do it all themselves even when I do nothing because it is the nature of man to be stupid and violent." And then when Diana foolishly tries to fight him, he easily swats her aside and lays a beat down and tells her flat out, "Tell me Amazon, why am I the villain of your tale when the Amazons are my creation and you time and time again pray to a Goddess of War for aid, that is her sword you carry after all. You were created as a weapon of war by the goddesses of Olympus to be controlled by them. You were trained your whole life to kill and slay man, what does that really say about you, hmmm?"

And then the rest of her arc with and several fights with Ares would be more Diana coming to terms that yes she was created to be a warrior, but also a servant of peace and a philosophical battle of wills over the nature of war and violence and peace, and eventually Ares playing himself into creating his own destruction at Diana's hands thanks in part to Olympus sick of Ares and wanting him punished...but as he falls, he mocks her saying, "So begins a new God of War"

which then leads to the final phase of this character journey for Diana that would be Goddess of War Diana on her journey to transform into the Goddess of Peace....and all the while there's ghost Ares (real or in her mind) taunting her the whole time until Diana beats him one last time by choosing the olive branch over the sword and leaving Ares behind in darkness.