posted by prncsjenny

Oct 15, 2008 12:13PM

aww i have to agree. i was hoping for so much, but this does not compare to the isaac mizrahi comic book from many years ago. i think i bought it when i was in HS!

posted by xnoelle25

Oct 15, 2008 4:41PM

It's that short?

posted by guest

Oct 15, 2008 8:29PM

the stories are kinda weak!

posted by guest

Oct 15, 2008 9:17PM

I'm sorry, but the art looks really amateur, this was sort of a let down for DVF!

posted by rebajonez

Oct 15, 2008 10:26PM

yeah, the comic is silly and simplistic but if it made you in any way root for those women (or for yourself?), then i think it's worth something. i promise i don't work for dvf... but i love her quote: "I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become." THAT'S an inspiration!

posted by guest

Oct 16, 2008 12:57PM

Be the Wonder Woman you can be... but only if you do it wearing heels, am I right?

If you're going to use Wonder Woman to promote women's equality and betterment at least get her costume right and acknowledge that women can do great things without looking "fabulous" all the time. I actually liked the stories, but this aspect just rubbed me the wrong way.

Also it could have been longer for $25.

posted by guest

Oct 16, 2008 8:22PM

Notice how Viva takes the most stereotypical and cliched "girl" position in an all-male rock band- vocalist. Couldn't be the drummer or the lead guitarist. It couldn't be her own band, she's merely there to adorn theirs.

And yet she has not one single line of dialogue in her own story. Even when she's singing, she's silenced. Manipulated and pushed around by the male characters, her brother has to "get her into the van." She can't even do that for herself. Then they toss her onstage and we never learn the least bit about her, never once read a line of dialogue. She remains a cipher onto which men project their needs, wants and desires.

Hers are totally negligible.

Why is it her "triumph" in the end feels like the first step in producing a pre-fab, easy-marketable Britney Spears clone or some kind of Katy Perry knock-off, or at best an another pseudo-rebellious Avril Lavigne singing MTV-friendly anthems about "control" while simultaneously selling perfumes and trashy clothes in some inadvertant parodying of self-actualization?

Meanwhile, thousands of female rock bands doing their own thing remain unsigned and marginalized or relegated to novelty status.

Wow, you go Viva! That's being the Wonder Woman you can be!

What a haywire story. What a crock of mixed messages.