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In Your Satin Tights, Fighting for Your Rights

I have finished watching the 1970s Wonder Woman, which looks to have been set up as a rather campy show in the vein of the 60s Batman, if perhaps not quite as silly. This is shown in the opening credits, … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Music, Mythology, Technology, Television | Tagged amazons, amusement parks, batman, carolyn jones, cloris leachman, dc comics, debra winger, etta candy, eve plumb, frank gorshin, hippolyta, jessica walter, john saxon, lyle waggoner, lynda carter, martin mull, paradise island, robots, steve trevor, themiscyra, wonder girl, wonder woman, world war ii |

Roland in the Deep

I think I first heard of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in a blurb about C.S. Lewis comparing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to it. Well, they do both have a magic ring that makes people invisible, and a monster … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Christianity, French, Greek Mythology, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged amazons, andromeda, arimaspoi, astolfo, atlante, avalon, basil of caesarea, battle of roncevaux pass, beowulf, chanson de roland, charlemagne, childe roland to the dark tower came, cortana, durendal, elijah, fairies, faleero, falerina, ferragut, giants, griffins, halo, hector, hell, hippogriffs, holga danske, horses, hugh capet of france, huon of bordeaux, jesus, john the apostle, king lear, lethe river, lord of the rings, ludovico ariosto, matteo maria boiardo, merlin, moon, morgan le fay, ogier the dane, orcas, orcs, orlando furioso, orlando innamorato, paladin, penthesileia, pliny the elder, prester john, rinaldo, robert browning, roland, roland the headless thompson gunner, ruggiero, st. denis, st. peter, stephen king, swords, tristan and isolde, virgin mary, warren zevon, water of oblivion, weapons |

Truth in Cinema

Wonder Woman 1984 – I know this movie didn’t do so well at the box office. That might be partially because of COVID, but it definitely had some problems. I’d heard some stuff about Gal Gadot being anti-Palestinian, which is … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Dreams, German, Humor, Monsters, Mythology, Roman, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alex winter, amazons, antichrist, ares, asteria, batman returns, bialya, cannibalism, cheetah, dc comics, dolos, don't fall, doug bradley, dreamstone, duke of deception, elvira, halloween iii, heather langenkamp, her only living son, horror, in search of darkness, jack ketchum, joe bob briggs, John Carpenter, kane hodder, karyn kusama, keith david, ken sagoes, kristen wiig, lynda carter, nick castle, pedro pascal, robert pattinson, rosemary's baby, roxanne benjamin, satan, sofia carrillo, st. vincent, steve trevor, the birthday party, the box, themiscyra, tom atkins, willem dafoe, wishes, wonder woman, wonder woman 1984, xx |

Diana, Diana, Diana, I Would Die for You

Wonder Woman – I hadn’t seen any of the last few movies based on DC Comics (I don’t think I have since the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy), and I hadn’t heard good things about them. I got the impression they … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged amazons, ares, dc comics, etta candy, gal gadot, general erich ludendorff, hippolyta, steve trevor, themiscyra, themyscira, william moulton marston, wonder woman, world war i, zeus |

Gods, Men, and Monsters

In the Company of Ogres, by A. Lee Martinez – This was a comedic look on fantasy, hardly anything new, but still entertaining. It tells the story of Never Dead Ned, a guy who dies quite often, but is always … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Authors, Book Reviews, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magnus Chase, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Rick Riordan, Terry Pratchett, Trials of Apollo | Tagged amazons, ants, apollo, demons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, ents, goblins, in the company of ogres, myrmekes, neil diamond, nero claudius caesar augustus germanicus, ogres, orcs, percy jackson, salamanders, sirens, taylor swift, the hidden oracle |

Lockup: Emerald City

My wife, who has read several books about prison and watched many episodes of Lockup on MSNBC, has mentioned to me that she doesn’t like the way the prison system in Oz is set up. Of course, thanks to an … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, amazons, dc comics, emerald city, george van buren, jinjur, justice, ojo, omby amby, ozma, reform island, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, tollydiggle, transformation island, william moulton marston, wonder woman, zimbo and the magic amulet |

Amazon Primer

While warfare has traditionally been considered a masculine pursuit, Greek legend contains accounts of the Amazons, an all-female tribe of powerful warriors. While they were often said to live in Asia Minor, they were sometimes located in Africa or modern-day … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Exploration, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, History, Mythology, Oz, Rick Riordan, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, alexander the great, amazons, bellerophon, dc comics, dragon quest iv, femiscyra, final fantasy iv, francisco de orellano, gargareans, gerudo, hercules, herodotus, hippolyte, penthesileia, priam, thalestris, themiscyra, theseus, troia, trojan war, troy, wonder woman |

Wednesday with Wonder Woman

The Wonder Woman Chronicles, Volume One, by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter – Wonder Woman was not technically the first female superhero, but she was the first to become an enduring character in the world of comics, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, Feminism, Gender, Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged amazons, aphrodite, bondage, dc comics, etta candy, harry peter, hercules, hippolyte, jael, jane foster, judith, lois lane, steve trevor, superman, the wonder woman chronicles, thor, william moulton marston, wonder woman |

You Say You’ve Seen Seven Wonders

We’ve all heard of the Seven Wonders of the World, even though only one of them is still standing today. Why seven, though? I don’t know. Something about the ancient Greeks who chose it considering it a number of wholeness. … Continue reading →

Posted in Hellenistic Greece, History, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged alexander the great, amazons, antipater of sidon, artemis, artemisia, barossus, colossus of rhodes, croesus, flavius josephus, great pyramid, hanging gardens of babylon, helios, herodotus, lighthouse of alexandria, mausoleum at halicarnassus, mausolus, nebuchadnezzar, phidias, pyramids of giza, seven wonders of the world, statue of liberty, statue of zeus at olympia, temple of artemis at ephesus, zeus |

The Flying Avengers of the Greco-Roman World

Greco-Roman mythology is full of trios of scary women. I’m not sure how that meme got started, but you have the Gorgons, the Graeae, and the Fates. Another three dangerous females are the Furies, the Latin name for the Erinyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Roman | Tagged alcmaeon, amazons, argonauts, boreads, boreas, clytemnestra, electo, erinyes, fairies, furies, gorgons, harpies, hippolyte, iris, kronos, megaera, oedipus, orestes, ouranos, penthesileia, phineas, tisiphone, zeus |