Wonder Woman and Supergirl are dating in an alternate DC universe

Marguerite Bennett revealed that Wonder Woman was the first person to kiss Princess Mera, Atlantis, in her DC Bombshells 2015 series. In his 2016 Wonder Woman series, Greg Rucka and his collaborators established Wonder Woman as a queer character who had been in love with one of her Amazon sisters before ever setting foot in Man’s World. In 2017, even Wonder Woman’s mass-audience big-budget film acknowledged that Amazons enjoy sex and relationships amongst themselves.

The alternate fantasy world series is featured this week Dark Knights of Steel revealed that its version of Wonder Woman is dating Superman’s sister — that world’s Supergirl. Wonder Woman has had implied girlfriends, off-screen girlfriends, and girlfriends that couldn’t be called girlfriends because writers were living in more homophobic times.

I’m not mad! I’m actually more excited about the direction of the Wonder Woman line now than I have been in years. I’m even surprised that Wonder Woman is available. LineDC Comics is incredibly proud to have published more than one title. All the same.

What longer will it take for Wonder Woman on Earth 0 to kiss a girl? Phew.

Is there anything else happening inside our favourite comics’ pages? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. You may not have enough context. However, there will be many great comics. You can also read the previous edition if you haven’t seen it yet.

Don’t worry about Supergirl’s tears in the image above — it’s not relationship woes. She’s just sad because her dad was assassinated by Fantasy Green Arrow.

As riot police burst into the headquarters of the Fantastic Four, the Thing tells teenage Franklin and Valeria Richards to stay close to him. He uses his rocky body to shield them from a hail of automatic gunfire, and then looks over his shoulder at the attackers with a look of pure fury in Devil’s Reign #1 (2021).

Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checcheto’s DaredevilThis is an utterly excellent book. The problem is that it’s been weaving a web of plot and characters so well for so long that all the good moments are resting on all the stuff that’s come before — which you’d only know if you’d been reading the book. It’s not great material for the weekly roundup. So it’s great that in the first issue of Devil’s ReignThe crossover series of. Daredevil, Checchetto nails this three panel sequence of events so hard, and creates one of the most evocative images of Ben Grimm I’ve ever seen.

Batman sees a blimp displaying the breaking news that five members of Batman Inc. have been arrested in Batman #118 (2021).

Batman’s off on a globetrotting adventure with a new creative team, one that harks back to the Batman Inc. days of Grant Morrison’s run on the character.

“Maybe you were right, Kyle,” Greycrow says to Wild Child, “maybe we are crazy [growlixes] in Hellions #18 (2021).

Hellions’ final issue is a great cap on what’s been one of the best of the Krakoan era’s oddball series. It’s the best “Suicide Squad” comic I’ve read in years.