#cyclon

Why did Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl give each other their outfits?

I didn’t question it with Bruce and Tim because Batman has an image to maintain.

So why are Cassie and Diana doing… this?

It definitely isn’t for image purposes otherwise Cassie would be wearing that awful wig again.

Ah, it was Cassie’s idea. For… weird reasons.

Wait, did Wonder Woman’s costume not change with her?

It’s actually kind of ambiguous. I don’t even know if her arm guards are too big for or if they were always like that.

Is this like Dr. Fate’s helmet where the magic involved in its existence is under rules that prevent them from being altered like that?

Welp, time to go home for a change of clothes!

Also I’m starting to realize that the problem with Cassie’s wig wasn’t because it was a bad wig (though it was bad), it was because the colors weren’t working. The whole black on black on yellow on black wasn’t really doing it, so having her natural hair out helps break up the colors.

I wonder what Tim and Kon’s rooms are like.

Actually no, maybe I don’t want to know what Kon’s room is like.

I don’t gotta ask about Bart, I read his comic.

Mind, Cassie’s room isn’t like this to prove a point about the minds of youth vs maturity. We are in her room a lot in Young Justice and it is always like this.

It is a genuine miracle her mom lets her out with her room looking like that.

Ignore the bottom panel, this is actually a really sweet moment. A forever ago The Titans dropped by and Donna Troy, the previous Wonder Girl, gave Cassie her old costume. A cute little passing of the torch. Donna’s more of a “black leotard reflecting the stars of the night sky” kind of gal these days.

Cassie, the fangirl, of course kept the costume in her closet to be kept in mint condition because she was scared if she wore it she might ruin it or something.

It’s a nice costume but honestly I prefer the black tank, goggles, and leather jacket.

I don’t think the standard Young Justice art, color, and shading style would be able to properly convey the terror of Cassie’s mom pointing a gun right in her face. Not knocking on the art of YJ, but I think that this scene shows off the strengths of having different artists working different parts of this ongoing event.

Like, they do a really good job with the emotion on Cassie’s face on that second page. and these scenes with her and her mom are great in general. It’s nice to have them have a conversation like this. It’s always felt more fraught when Cassie was a teenager having to deal with her mother semi-approving of her actions. But we all know it’s because she worries.

What an adorable new look, Diana. That even has her original logo on it before modern artists started doing the stylized “WW+Eagle” thing which was honestly a stroke of design genius that allows Wondy to have an iconic crest that isn’t too complex but also isn’t too simple.

The idea of going to Zeus is kind of crazy to me, but I know that back at the beginning of Young Justice when Cassie was heavily embellishing her origin story, she came to Zeus asking for a favor.

Which is… a funny concept if one knows anything about mythological Zeus. And, like, obviously the dialogue did not happen this way, Cassie is really playing up how cool she is.

I think one of the disappointing things about Wonder Woman not having the amount of adaptations Superman and Batman do is that we don’t get a pop culture distillation of her relationship to the gods. One of the MANY great things the DCAU was able to do was take what worked, ignored what didn’t, and built an iconic pure essence of a character and their mythology. But Wonder Woman, her hero origin story is the first episode of Justice League. So we don’t get as much history out of her and it’s pretty disappointing.

And in most of the adaptations it’s the same boring antagonistic relationship with Hades and Ares. Because these Christian raised westerners can’t conceive of a lead god as anything other than the Christian God of Good and can’t conceive of a good of the dead and the underworld as anything other than The Devil and EVIL.

And Ares of course because war is bad and Diana is for peace

It’s very rote. We can do better.

Uh, anyhow, on to the god summoning.

Apparently Diana knows Cassie’s mom so causally because they worked together at a museum. That’s cool.

And explains why Helena is coming along. Someone’s gotta open the museum so they can use the magical pot.

Look at these wyrd sisters bubble bubble, toil and trouble.

New phone, who dis?

Why it’s Mr. Blue Sky.

Here Comes The Sun… and I say, it’s not alright

Let the Sunshine In? Nah, we probably shouldn’t.

Look, I could keep referencing songs all day but I think you get the point. It’s the one and only capricious.

And like a lot of Greek gods, he’s a bit of an ass.

And if you know your Greek myth I think we all know what “fraternizing” means, especially when it comes to Zeus.

I like that teen Diana can never seem to shut up. If there is a hole she will talk her way down it.

Helena is right, this is a bad idea

Allow me to spoil the ending for you: Apollo is an ass.

So it’s up to Wonder Girl Woman and Wonder Woman Girl to go fight the offspring of Medusa and The Cyclops to get some stupid helmet for a capricious god.

It goes about as well as you’d think given these ladies’ penchant for violence.

Thankfully, Cassie reminds Diana that she can speak Greek.

My girlfriend feels the same about trying to remember her native language, ewe.

So surprise, surprise, turns out violence wasn’t the answer!

This was literally a test set by Apollo to have people do this exact thing. So it’s weird that he created a scenario designed to reward patience, kindness, and diplomacy, and yet he’s such a huge jerk about it.

At least Cyclon is cool but I don’t feel great about Medusa and Cyclops kicking him out because he wasn’t evil enough.

Turns out the most evil person here was Apollo.

He turned in the Wonders into the Agenda.

Because he’s an ass.

So yeah, much like how Superboy surrendered for Superman’s sake, Wonder Girl makes the executive decision to surrender for Superboy’s sake.

A real conga line of self-sacrifice.

But Teen Diana here is like “How dare? I would never? LET’S KICK THEIR ASSES!” Oh right, and the chance for Apollo to turn them back is important too but I highly doubt he’d honor it even if they did get the helmet back to him.

So yeah, good art, good character, good emotion, good action, good resolution, this was a pretty strong segment actually.