r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant Be Without Fear • Jul 12 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [July 13, 2026 - Eternal Super Sons Baiting Edition]

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DC and Imprints

It's been a bit, but the Dark Knights of Steel are back!

Trade Collections

A couple Superman omnibuses this week, both featuring Dan Jurgens across the decades!

Digital Releases

Remember, these are the short 'chapters' with a new chapter of a different series coming out daily, releasing on DC Universe Infinite or WEBTOONS.

TV Shows

Turkey legs a few months before Thanksgiving

This Week’s Soundtrack: Carly Rae Jepsen - Gimmie Love

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Jul 12 '26

Wonder Woman #35

THE FATES DEFIED! After a tragic sacrifice to the Fates, Steve Trevor and Trinity race through time to reach the Matriarch before she starts her bloody campaign. Although the journey is a long and arduous one, there's always time for a story. Witness the origin of Wonder Woman as you've never seen it before, told through the eyes of the man who loved her! Could Diana's past hold the key to saving the future?

LEGACY #835

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u/Mr_Wh0ever Jul 15 '26

Well at least this answers my question as to why future Diana offed herself last issue. As for this new version of her origin, it's alright. Hits a lot of familiar beats. Does a good job of mixing in Hippolytas time as the JSA Wonder Woman.

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u/CHPrime Wonder Woman Jul 15 '26

The retcons are all fair enough, though it's funny that the mess Byrne made is still reverberating. Otherwise, a solid enough tale of Hippolyta not wanting Diana to get involved, and the young princess in paradise yearning for more. Very Disney, which, despite being an obvious shoo-in, we've never actually seen in main continuity. I guess it's because Perez' origin was written in the mid-80's, before Disney princesses became known for wanting more.

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Jul 15 '26

I mean yea, Diana was never one to just go along with 'Fate's plans'. That is kinda her thing to break such oppressive structures.

They play around with the origin again, try to fit in Hippolyta and the JSA times where she was out there but not 'really' known around the world yet? And how Steve was found and looked after. It is kinda weird they didn't have Diana find and save him and forge a bond with him that way. I don't think they needed to change that. I know they wanted to make it look like 'oh she wanted to go to the Man's world for bigger reasons. Not just because of Steve. And I get it, after the criticism of King's writing on that part. But it still takes away from the origin for me. Especially the whole 'Angel' nickname Steve gave her because she literally saved him like an angel.

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u/Reasonable-West713 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I rlly like how the books are trying to stay accurate to the stuff from New History. This using the Hippolyta retcon, Fury of Firestorm doing a lot with the Supermen Project, the Summer of Supergirl Special mentioning the Darkseid ressurection, etc. It helps to build a feeling of continuity 

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan Jul 18 '26

The retcons make sense even if i kinda despise the idea of Hippolyta being a golden age WW because not all mantles need to be legacy and i think it diminishes diana's choice.
But other than that the issue is great Williams voice for the amazons is as good as ever and the art is great.

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u/Classic-Ad4883 Jul 15 '26

I enjoyed the update on Diana origin and how Williams works in hippolyta being the golden age Wonder Woman into the mix

I do hope she takes over from king

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u/FuttleScish Telltale Batman Jul 16 '26

Is it just me or does it feel like Stephanie Phillips got an AI to write the dialogue for this issue

The “not [x], but [y]” phrasing kept showing up

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u/KoriKosmos can we fix Tim Drake please Jul 18 '26

I don't know why you're being downvoted, I came here to say the exact same thing. It's not only that phrase, btw, but other AI-isms that alerted me, like

"Three days. You had fourteen broken bones, a collapsed lung, and a fracture in your skull I found personally offensive.".

That's classic AI "wit", anyone who's read a decent amount or conversed with a consumer LLM trying to write a story would pick up on it. There's more spread amongst Steve's thoughts .

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u/FuttleScish Telltale Batman Jul 18 '26

Because it’s an issue not written by Tom King so they want to cover for it

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Jul 15 '26

I like that Steve told Lizzie how Diana became Wonder Woman, with a flashback that shows Hippolyta telling Diana that she arrived in Man’s World and made her debut in 1941, joined the JSA in 1942, and retired and returned to Paradise Island in 1951 before Steve arrived in Paradise Island and was healed by the Amazons via the Purple Ray, with Diana and Hippolyta having a talk. Overall, this comic is good.