Man, so much cognitive dissonance going on with the latest issue of Sensation Comics.
EDIT: To clarify: there are two stories in the latest issue of Sensation. In the first, Diana assists the monstrous Echidna by rescuing her children from slavers operating in Gotham City. Along the way she runs into Professor Pyg, Harley Quinn, Batgirl, and finally Batman after saving the day. Diana punches and kicks, she threatens, she intimidates not unlike Gotham's usual defenders, but she doesn't come across as needlessly violent even in this dark setting, at least no more violent than Lynda Carter did in the old TV show. In the second story, after stopping an alien invasion Superman is invited to follow Wonder Woman around for a day to write an article about her. Diana thwarts an unjust military occupation, officiates at a lesbian wedding, and destroys an illegal dam to stop a drought. The closest we see her come to taking up arms against another is when she uses her bracelet to deflect a bullet toward an enemy general, a calculated ricochet to make her point as they pummel her with machine guns and missiles. She even goes so far as to say her philosophy is not "might makes right" but "right guides might."
So what's the cover look like for this issue, in which Wonder Woman saves lives and defuses conflict with only modest amounts of violence? Diana, gore-slick sword slung over her shoulder, splattered with the blood of her fallen foes as one claws at her thigh, gazing off into the distance where no doubt her next bloody battle awaits. Yeahp.
