You know, I have the First Comics promo poster (with DJ, Grimjack, Nexus, the Badger, Reuben Flagg and Jon Sable) in my den and sometimes I sigh with geek-longing when I pass it.

God, I miss the First Comics line. (Got any Dynamo Joe-related stories?)

Thanks for sharing some great moments.

(What am I saying? That’s no kind of future!)

Great article, MOTU. Full of advice that those that need it most will ignore because they think it doesn’t apply to them.

It was on January 2, a column named “The Enemy Within” where you postulated Diana’s Pro-Life stance. You wrote, “yes, pregnancy, the unborn child, would be ultimate, holy, sacrosanct, untouchable, inviolable object of worship of a woman raised in this environment.”

I thought this was a very enlightened take on Wonder Woman and posted that I would have loved to read that story arc.

I have to point out that this take on Wonder Woman makes it seem as though her opinion of pregnancy is one borne out of its rarity in her experience and if she had been a character of our world she may not feel the same way. But pregnancy’s relative routine status in our world makes it no less sacrosanct. Would Diana’s opinion change when she becomes, as you said, “acclimated.”

All that said, the point of this column, contraception, is, in my view, an entirely different subject and one that I have no issue with. In fact, using artificial or medical means to prevent conception is a decision similar to being celibate. Both practices prevent a life from being formed.

Joseph W:
Unfortunately, too many of these “pro-life” advocates don’t seem to give the least regard for the “post-birth” end of life.

This is a common unfounded canard that is consistently brought up to imply that the Pro-Life movement is hypocritical. In fact, The Pro-life movement does care for both the woman and her child before and after birth. Crisis pregnancy centers established around the country help women find jobs, apartments or housing with a volunteer if she is homeless, give her help with medical expenses, transportation to medical facilities, provide layettes for newborns, baby furniture, clothing for siblings and a host of other necessities. And these organizations exist without funding from governmental sources.

No shit!

Mindy

The amount of Diva’s that have crossed my path could fill Comic Con.

I have been working in comics for about four years and I’ve had numerous works published by various companies in that time. I have a friend who is about 12 years older than I am and has been trying to break into specifically DC for a good 20+ years by his own admission.

Why? Because he wants to write John Constantine and basically just Constantine.

He has had exactly one thing published ever: a short story I submitted on his behalf (with his permission) to a small press anthology. He is a decent writer and could make good in roads with the independent scene if he’d direct his energy there instead of towards a company that has thousands of people doing the exact same thing he is.

You’re added so many great points that according to the ‘industry’ chart above I must now stab you in the back.

Sorry-I REALLY liked you dude…

lf you would like to show me some work I’d be happy to look at it: motu@michaeldavisworld.com

Finally — this is the Real World. You don’t get a trophy just for showing up. Do the work.

‘Nuff said.

Now….if you mean “pro-life” in the sense of caring about the children once they’ve exited the vaginal canal, then yes, by all means, Diana would be “pro-life.” Unfortunately, too many of these “pro-life” advocates don’t seem to give the least regard for the “post-birth” end of life. Cuts to all sorts of beneficial social programs (one might note the GOPers even wanted cuts to programs designed to help PREGNANT WOMEN deliver HEALTHY BABIES) have been the norm for the “pro-life” advocates at ALL political strata (federal AND state).

If anything, Diana would be more critical of the “pro-life” movement for its sheer hypocrisy. Diana would call for programs to end bullying in school. She would demand that programs like WIC be immune from political grandstanding. She would expect that women’s health issues be given as much importance as men’s health (I can only imagine she’d be absolutely perplexed at the idea that insurance programs should cover the “Pill” for erectile dysfunction but not the “Pill” for pregnancy prevention, regardless of who the employer is or what faith s/he follows).