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Wonder Woman is an archetype what she represents.

It is a woman who is not a victim and will not be a victim.

I'm Greta Johnson, I'm Tricia Bobita,

and from W.Beezy in Chicago, this is Nerd Act.

This week on the show, author Lev Grossman.

I wonder if I succeeded too well.

She's like a nine-year-old nerd-slash golf.

It's kind of amazing.

And we get to know Wonder Woman with a comic historian.

There is a lot of bondage, a lot of sexual stuff between the lines that critics of the book

noticed and brought to DC's attention and Meerson said, well, I'm not going to change it and they decided to let him do it because it was selling like crazy and that gave him a certain amount of power over the book.

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