SHE WROTE: Heidi's DLD 3: Wonder Woman

Bob is not worried about the hurricane. He says it's only a tropical storm and it's still over Florida. However, he is bringing in the kayak, so that tells you he's taking it seriously.

And now back to Heidi's Don't Look Down and page 3 which is Wonder Woman. I have no idea where Wonder Woman came from, although I'm fairly sure Corrina Lavitt had something to do with it since she's my source for all things comic/graphic novel. I know it was Alex Ross's version of Wonder Woman that I collated with Lucy Lawless for Lucy, and it was definitely the Ross action figure that shows up in the book. And then there's the rope. And the blue background with stars, that's a big motif, the starry sky and the stars on the underwear and the whole fighting for America thing.



But there's other stuff going on in there. I did a lot of Wonder Woman research--there's a twisted action hero for you--and talk about somebody who shifted with the times and got a lot of male fantasy and anger reflected onto her. That woman's going to be in therapy for eternity; hell, the costume alone is good for years of primal scream. Mostly she just turned out to be a really good analogy for Lucy, an avatar if you will. Plus, there's Wonder Woman's thing for military guys which worked out nicely for J.T. And Superman. The whole motif just kept getting better, the more I worked with it. Sometimes things turn up and you just run with them.

The same thing's happening in Agnes with the flamingos and the anger therapy and the cake. They turned up at different times and I thought, "Well, okay," and folded them into the mix and now they keep revolving around. It's sort of like folding something into cake batter (to keep the cake motif going). You drop something fairly small in, like a half a cup of cranberries into a huge bowl of pound cake batter, and then you stir, and all of a sudden, these little pink berries are popping up, spread throughout, not obnoxious, it's still mostly pound cake, but they're just quietly everywhere. That's when you know you have a motif. When there's a cranberry waving at you at regular intervals.

Anyway, Wonder Woman. Huge motif in Don't Look Down. I miss her. But I have the action figure on my shelf to remind me. Next to the poker-playing clams.