And yet she still kicks ass afterwards and then gets her eyesight back?
WELL the post kinda seems to imply that she gets her eyesight back, like, right after the fight with Medusa.
HOWEVER.
I’m just innocently reading a Superman comic and I come across this:
YEAH you’re seeing that right, that’s Diana casually guest starring in someone else’s comic as a Batman-saving bullet-deflecting badass, having a conversation with him while doing so, also while absolutely blind.
Fucking badass holy shit.
First, because this is important: she isn’t “blinded by Medousa,” passive voice; she blinds herself during a fight with Medousa, so that a distraction or fuck-up won’t result in Diana being turned to stone mid-battle. Because protecting everyone else from Medousa is far more important to Diana than her own eyesight.
She is blind for a good long while after that, passing up several opportunities to get her sight back, because again there’s always something more important. For example, not long after she blinds herself, she earns a personal request from the gods, and instead of asking for her sight back, she asks that a child that had been turned to stone be restored to its life. (The god in question kind of sighs, because the point of the favor had been to restore Diana’s sight, but even they are resigned to Diana being like this.)
I think these two panels do a nice job showing Diana’s position on being blind:
Diana: I’m coming with you. We’ll start in Boston. Her old stomping grounds. Flash: What? You’re blind. Diana: I’m also very tall. Neither of these facts matter.
(Also, this story-arc is also one of the places where we learn that touching the lasso gives other superheroes the heebie-jeebies: they are not at all comfortable being on such intimate terms with the truth. And yet Diana wears the Lasso of Truth on her hip 24/7.)
In short, Diana of Themyscira is the best. And Greg Rucka’s earlier run (The Hiketeia, plus vol. 2 #195-226, aka Down to Earth, Bitter Rivals, Eyes of the Gorgon, Land of the Dead, Mission’s End), does an excellent job of demonstrating that.
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