Bombshells

It's no secret that I am a big fan of Wonder Woman's Bombshell incarnation.
I bought the variant cover last year, a glass tumbler with her image and several window stickers and other knick knacks.
I picked up the Bombshells book the other day. Bombshell WW is only featured on the cover.
The story was just OK.
The timeline is a little different than actual history.
The art was flat with only a couple of panels standing out.
I liked Batwoman's re imaging somewhat.
The thing I disliked most was that Supergirl was a commie and Batwoman was a commie sympathizer.



Price point: For $4.00 this book is pretty light.

A commie Supergirl? Yeah, umm, no thanks. Even though it sounds like she'll be bad which is good (in my view) but not in the right way.

Few things:

The individual digital issues are 99c and there are 3 per print edition. Small price break for digital.

The Soviets were indeed on our side in WW2, and SG is clearly on the outs with Stalin's lot. She won't be a baddie, I'm sure.

People fought against the fascists in Spain for a lot of different reasons. Just because Batwoman fought on the Republican side, doesn't make her a "commie."

I don't do digital comics, I prefer a hard copy.
I did mention that the timeline was a little off.
At the start of the war The USSR and the Nazis were allies.
The Americans that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil war were communists secretly financed by the USSR.

Markiehoe wrote: I don't do digital comics, I prefer a hard copy.
I did mention that the timeline was a little off.
At the start of the war The USSR and the Nazis were allies.
The Americans that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil war were communists secretly financed by the USSR.

What is the time-frame of the comic series? I ask because the German-Russian non-aggression pact ended in June 1941 when the Nazis invaded Russia. (A very effective way to end an non-aggression pact). That was six months BEFORE the USA declared war on the Nazis. So if this storyline involves the USA at war, then the Russian communists were our allies, fighting the Fascists.

On your other note, one of the really fun aspects of the Spanish Civil war was that the Soviet Union, France and Mexico were principally supporting the Republicans.

The Fascists (Nationalists) were supported by American businesses and of course the Nazis. The Spanish government Foreign Minister at the time said: "without American petroleum and American trucks, and American credit, we could never have won the Civil War."

So, up until 1939, large American businesses (with permission from the US government) were supplying trucks and petroleum and many other non-military goods to the Fascists, who got their weapons and some direct military support from Nazi Germany and Italy. The Irish and Portuguese were all in on the Nationalist side. American volunteers fought on both sides, and did Brits.

There's gotta be room to fit some interesting comic book stories in the Blondshell series, with very confusing and shifting alliances to make it fun. This was such a dramatic time in history, 1936-1939, when alliances were shifting rapidly. WWII had been underway in Europe for about three years by 1941, and the US public (through their representatives) would not allow the country to enter. We might have stayed out of it all together (like Sweden and Switzerland) if not for a bit of stupidity on Japan's part.

It is clearly stated three times that the events in Bombshells #1 take place in 1940.
That is at least one and a half years before the United States entered the war and almost a full year before Germany and the USSR started fighting each other.
Steve Trevor is seen leading a squadron of P51Ds against the Nazi's over Greece in 1940.
That is a full year before the US entry.
The P51D with it's teardrop canopy was not even introduced until mid 1944.

I am a history buff also and the events before, during and after the war are so interesting and complicated I see no need to fiddle with them.

Batwoman either fought on the side of the Communists with the Republicans or the Faschists with the Nationalists
She knows how to pick her friends well.

When the United States entered the war after Pearl Harbor the U.S. declared war on Japan and Japan only.
The Nazi's, in alliance with Japan declared war on the U.S.
The USSR, who the US had been supplying for over a year by this time formed a military alliance with the US.
The US asked the USSR to declare war on Japan.
Our Allies, the USSR said no.

I wrote a story for FemForce called "No Substitute for Victory" set in the time of the Belin Airlift.
Check out how I wrapped up the crazy time after the war.
Especially read panel two.



That's right, if an American aircrew had to land in any Soviet controlled area they were arrested and in put in a concentration camp.
Our Allies were a great bunch of guys and gals.
It was not until after the Yalta meeting when the Soviets learned of the Atomic Bomb that they openly started to operate against the Japanese.