Today our panelists talk about women with swords - hey, wait a second, didn't we do this last time? Join us for a discussion of "Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon," where we talk about big swords, literary analysis, and Eisner award-winning colors!

• (00:00) - “Absolute Wonder Woman”
• (02:01) - Front Matter
• (03:34) - What is the Absolute Universe?
• (09:22) - What does Scout know about Wonder Woman?
• (12:46) - No tone problems!
• (14:29) - The artists are delivering
• (19:21) - Circe and Diana
• (22:57) - Paneling
• (29:16) - Sherman’s Art vs de Iulis’s
• (31:04) - SPOILERS BEGIN HERE
• (31:07) - Even bigger sword
• (35:41) - Lettering the scream bomb
• (37:11) - The Lady and the Tiger
• (42:17) - The pomegranate seeds
• (46:01) - The biggest laughs
• (48:22) - Diana’s thoughtfulness
• (51:18) - Skeleton Pegasus
• (51:41) - The lassos
• (53:02) - Hades’ design
• (54:42) - Amazon in hell
• (58:08) - Further reading
• (01:00:44) - Back matter

Further Reading
- "The Lady, or the Tiger?" short story written by Frank R. Stockton
- Other entries in DC's Absolute Universe

- Kelly Thompson's work with Marvel - Jeff the Land Shark, Captain Marvel

- Hayden Sherman's art in Batman: Dark Patterns, written by Dan Watters
- Sherman is co-creator, penciller, and inker for Dark Spaces: Dungeon
- Jordie Bellaire is doing colors on Exquisite Corpses from James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s Tiny Onion imprint at Image. She is an artist in residence with Tiny Onion.
- Bellaire has done color work on the super popular Assorted Crisis Events which is written by Deniz Camp, who also writes Absolute Martian Manhunter.

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Editing this week by AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.