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Lee French, the Sequential Art Collective’s resident self-admitted “fanboy” is taking a month off of rambling to collect his thoughts about life, the multi-verse and everything for future rants and raves. This week, Matt. Murray, executive editor of the SAC Blog and author of our regular Monday Media Madness feature fills in with a ramble about an animated coming out party for a certain princess of Paradise Island.

by Matt. Murray

Warning: May contain “spoilers” for the recently released Wonder Woman animated feature from Warner Premiere.

In this week’s Alphabet of the Arcane, Mr. M. described Wonder Woman as the booty “that launched a thousand issues” referring to her status as the go-to sex symbol for a certain comics publisher. For over 68 years, she’s been the pre-eminent female force in DC Comics, starring in numerous titles and presiding in their Pantheon as one of the company’s “Big Three” heroes (with Batman and Superman). However, until Tuesday March 3rd, 2009, she has never headlined her own animated venture – while Batman and Superman total no less than 40 individual cartoon projects between them.

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On alternating Tuesdays, Justin Maudslien, aka Sub-Human’s Mr. M., explores weird and little known factoids and shares his skewed observations about the world of comics, cartoons and sequential art.

by Justin Maudslien

Greetings, oh seekers of the sooth…

Henry Ford once said “History is Bunk.” I respectfully disagree, history is another bodacious “B” – booty. That’s right, history is nothing but a chronological list of who wants booty… who needs booty… and who is getting booty.

What is this booty you ask? Let’s ask the Beastie Boys:

“Yo professor, what’s another name for buried treasure? I think it’s booty… boo… boo… booty.”

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In my previous installment, I attempted to establish that mathematics is a sequential art. I think it’s already time to get meta: sequential art about sequences.

All of the works you think of when referring to “sequential art” deal with finite sequences. At some point, the panels stop and the comic ends. Let’s talk a little about the loss of intuition, vague sense of the world spinning, and loss of appetite that comes with infinite sequences.
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