![]() Ha’s “Behind the Panels” shares DeConnick’s charge for Ha and her as co-creators of Book Two: “The scripts that follow should be considered more of a roadmap than a set of blueprints.”īook Two: DeConnick, writer Ha, artist Wesley Wong, colorist Clayton Cowles, letterer.Ī cultural and political narrative in the U.S. I explained that Book One, with artist Phil Jimenez, offers not just a beautiful and compelling superhero narrative, but also vivid and urgent messages for our lives today.ĭeConnick joins artist Gene Ha in Book Two. But I think, especially for my father, we tell stories of our lives to hold onto those moments and years that slip farther and farther into our past, fading.Īs I read Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (Book Two), Kelly Sue DeConnick’s telling and retelling of mythology grounded in the Wonder Woman universe, I thought about my father’s storytelling as well as why we have myths. ![]() ![]() We tell stories, often over and over, in an effort to understand better our lives, understand better what it means to be human. They married in secret during her lunch break from her job working at a Winn-Dixie checkout counter. Not a literary person, my father returned again and again to telling us about his courtship with my mother. Throughout my childhood, my father told the stories of him growing up, and life before my sister and me, so many times, with so much detail, I can retell them myself today-several years past his death, many decades since I was a child. ![]()
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