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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Wonder Woman and the Amazons w/ Greg Rucka

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Mythology, Drunkhistory, Legends, Urbanlegends, Society & Culture, Educational, Folklore, Myths, Comedy, History, Gods, Alcohol, Learning

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We leave the world of men and enter Paradise as we sit down with Greg Rucka, head writer of Wonder Woman for DC. We discuss comic books as mythology, dig into the historical roots of Wonder Woman and the Amazons, and revel in the super queer nature of paradise. Join us to find out just how scared of powerful women the Greeks really were! A blog post version of the episode is also available here.

Find out more about Greg Rucka and his work at GregRucka.com or on Twitter @RuckaWriter. For more on the Amazons of the DC Universe, aka the Amazons of Themyscira, click here. The splinter group Greg mentions is the Bana-Mighdall.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Spirits Podcast, episode 35, Wonder Woman and the Amazons with Greg Rucca.

0:04.6

Guys, I've been planning this. I've been planning this for so long since last October,

0:09.1

and I'm so glad you are finally going to listen to this thing.

0:11.3

So Greg Rucker is the writer of Wonder Woman.

0:13.3

He writes Wonder Woman for DC.

0:14.8

He writes the rebirth series of Wonder Woman.

0:16.9

And we are so freaking pumped to have him on the show talking about the mythology of comic books,

0:21.6

the mythology of Wonder Woman, about the Amazons, about as a writer, how he like adapts actual

0:26.3

mythology to writing in this world.

0:28.3

And his own experience growing up loving mythology.

0:30.8

Yeah.

0:31.1

And also the like hella queer nature of Wonder Woman, which you know that I'm here for.

0:36.0

Yeah, Amanda's totally here for that.

0:37.4

This is like a perfect present Julia's given me. Um, so we're going to start out this episode

0:40.8

with some background information on the Amazon's in mythology, as well as the origins of Wonder Woman

0:45.9

and kind of where Greg came into the comic series. And then you'll be able to listen to this

0:50.6

incredible interview with Greg. Yeah, we talk about like Fuck Boys and Creek mythology, Wonder Woman's Queerness, like I said,

0:55.7

and what is next for the DC universe, like what he's kind of doing to the actual mythology.

0:59.5

What grounds he's trying to lay for the mythology.

1:02.8

I know.

1:03.2

And like what a cool career and like industry too to like just constantly like leave little threads

1:08.8

for future people to pick up on.

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