Giganta the Vampire Slayer
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scans_dailyMan, too long here without any Giganta posts.
It was the Fourth Age of Giganta. First, she'd been an evolved gorilla, before post-Crisis gave her size-changing powers of unknown origin. After Infinite Crisis she decided to drop caveman-chic for a motorcycle suit and dated the Atom.
What happened to Wonder Woman's greatest foe after Flashpoint in the New 52? For one thing, she barely met Princess Diana, showing up for a random cold open in an issue of Superman/WonderWoman. No, instead she took her new, abs-baring costume through the mess of 'Forever Evil'alongside Vandal Savage, where she ran into Pandora, becoming far closer to that character over the course of the latter's solo series.
Also, she fought vampires.
Of course, there was a falling out with Vandal Savage.
This, of course, went nowhere, what with it being the last issue and all, and Pandora being unceremoniously snuffed out not long after. :( Still, maybe one day Giganta will get onto that Justice League, huh?
From issues 11, 13 and 14 of Trinity of Sin: Pandora.
It was the Fourth Age of Giganta. First, she'd been an evolved gorilla, before post-Crisis gave her size-changing powers of unknown origin. After Infinite Crisis she decided to drop caveman-chic for a motorcycle suit and dated the Atom.
What happened to Wonder Woman's greatest foe after Flashpoint in the New 52? For one thing, she barely met Princess Diana, showing up for a random cold open in an issue of Superman/WonderWoman. No, instead she took her new, abs-baring costume through the mess of 'Forever Evil'alongside Vandal Savage, where she ran into Pandora, becoming far closer to that character over the course of the latter's solo series.
Also, she fought vampires.
Of course, there was a falling out with Vandal Savage.
This, of course, went nowhere, what with it being the last issue and all, and Pandora being unceremoniously snuffed out not long after. :( Still, maybe one day Giganta will get onto that Justice League, huh?
From issues 11, 13 and 14 of Trinity of Sin: Pandora.
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Date: 2022-08-13 07:17 pm (UTC)*scan of Giganta throwing Vandal Savage like a tennis ball*
Fondness for Giganta increasing dangerously...
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Date: 2022-08-13 10:04 pm (UTC)This year's DC Pride issue writing off the furkini as her wrestling costume is a neat way of explaining why she still keeps it in her closet.
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Date: 2022-08-13 07:47 pm (UTC)Though some of those scans up there make me once again question how well artists understand female bodies. When the skin tight outfit is actually hugging the boobs underneath and you find yourself wondering how exactly that supports them...
Oh yes, and Pandora. There's totally a character I'd forgotten about. Much like so much of the rest of the New 52. When you think about it, it's telling how much of the New 52 didn't stick even after DC went to their "everything counts" phase.
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Date: 2022-08-13 09:49 pm (UTC)After Forever Evil and Blight (boy, that multi-book crossover makes the Pandora TPB disjointed to read) Pandora was just starting to get going, as a two-fisted paranormal investigator seeking her lost love. More interesting than the vagueness of her introduction, and deserving of more than Johns gave her in Doomsday Clock. It redefines anti-climactic.
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Date: 2022-08-15 04:58 pm (UTC)So it was either a "there, now shut up about them." moment or a "this character died because you didn't love them. You! YOOOOUUUUU!" moment.
(And the whole Pandora's Box thing... where it's first the container for the Seven Deadly Sins... then it corrupts whoever touches it... then it's apparently a Mother Box from Earth-3 all along and just...)
... huh, actually starting to feel a little sorry for Pandora as a character.
Weird.
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Date: 2022-08-15 05:08 pm (UTC)The Pandora's Box eventually turned out to be a container to which the Sins returned after every time they destroyed a reality. One Sin would gain ascendancy, so a reality entirely devoted to Avarice, for example, and then the next would get their turn, until Pandora - of whom the Sins were aspects - broke the cycle by uniting them all within herself.
Of course, given that Pandora died in under five years of comicbook time, that Futures End issue probably isn't canon in any way.
Maybe they would played up the Sins aspect more had Johns not decided he'd actually like to write a Shazam book, and so the Seven got tied back into that instead of Pandora.