David Williams, a former DC Comics artist who worked on Suicide Squad and Justice League of America, announced he is boycotting the company following Tom King’s anti-Christian Wonder Woman series.
Wonder Woman #8 Cover D by Joshua Sway (2024), DC Comics
In Wonder Woman #8, the most recent issue of King’s series, Wonder Woman has been captured by the Sovereign and tied up using the Sovereign’s Lasso of Lies, which has the ability to make people believe falsehoods.
As the comic progresses, the Sovereign, like the Devil tempting Christ in the desert attempts to break Wonder Woman by quoting Scripture specifically Ephesians 5: 22-24.
A page from Wonder Woman #8 (2024), DC Comics
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Wonder Woman would continue to resist the mental torture, and the Sovereign would continue to quote Scripture. He would use 1 Timothy 2:9-15 next. However, it appears King and the DC editorial staff made a mistake as the Sovereign only quotes 1 Timothy 2: 9-13.
A page from Wonder Woman #8 (2024), DC Comics
King does not stop there, he continues to have the Sovereign torture Wonder Woman and uses Christianity as a cudgel for identity politics. King writes, “Why do you think God sent his only son to save us? Why not his only daughter? I doubt it was some random choice. One must consider the intention of the Lord in all things, yes? Personally, I think it rather obvious. He was gifting us with a message. About who can deliver us from our sins. And who, clearly, cannot.”
The Sovereign adds, “You see, who you turn to in a time of desperation, whom you rely upon, that good and noble man…be they the Lord of your beloved Sovereign…they rule you.”
A page from Wonder Woman #8 (2024), DC Comics
He continued, “It is not your fault, my dear. It is God’s words, God’s works, God’s will. You cannot save anyone. Because you are not a son. You…You poor, poor thing. You are but a daughter. And that, my dear you shall always believe.”
A page from Wonder Woman #8 (2024), DC Comics
Wonder Woman then has a vision of her mother who informs her that Diana never believed her. This allows Wonder Woman to believe that the claim that the Lasso of Lies cannot be broken is a lie. With this newfound belief, Wonder Woman breaks the Lasso that ties her with her bare hands as she informs the Sovereign, “I…I do not believe…your…words…you words. I…do not…I do not…believe your…your…God.”
A page from Wonder Woman #8 (2024), DC Comics
While the Sovereign is clearly a villain, and he’s acting like the Devil in the desert by quoting Scripture, the comic is scandalous because King, in my opinion, is very clearly trying to paint Christianity as evil and associate it with the Sovereign. Not only does he associate Christianity with evil, but he has the hero, Wonder Woman, outright reject Christ and Christian belief.
As novelist Brian Niemeier noted back in November, people have been conditioned to believe lies in part by “Hollywood churning out decades of movies wherein heroes whom audiences identified with achieved their goals by acting according to the Death Cult’s morals.”
Wonder Woman achieves her goal by having faith in herself and rejecting God. She does not reject the Sovereign as a false teacher, she does not rebuke him for acting like the devil in the desert. She makes herself god and then rejects Jesus Christ. This is the morality of the Death Cult and it is evil.
Wonder Woman #8 Cover C by Pablo Villalobos (2024), DC Comics
Not only is it evil, but it is blasphemous as well. As Catholic Answers explains, “While etymologically blasphemy may denote the derogation of the honor due to a creature as well as of that belonging to God, in its strict acceptation it is used only in the latter sense. Hence it has been defined by Suarez as “any word of malediction, reproach, or contumely pronounced against God.'”
The outlet adds, “Blasphemy, by reason of the significance of the words with which it is expressed, may be of three kinds. (I) It is heretical when the insult to God involves a declaration that is against faith, as in the assertion: ‘God is cruel and unjust’ or ‘The noblest work of man is God’. (2) It is imprecatory when it would cry a malediction upon the Supreme Being as when one would say: ‘Away with God’. And finally (3), it is simply contumelious when it is wholly made up of contempt of, or indignation towards, God, as in the blasphemy of Julian the Apostate: ‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean’.”
Wonder Woman #8 Cover B by Julian Totino (2024), DC Comics
After reading Fandom Pulse’s original coverage of the issue, Williams seemingly realized this and shared to social media he’s boycotting DC Comics. He wrote on X, “I AM NO LONGER GOING TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT ANYTHING DC COMICS. They have gone [too] far.”
David Williams on X
What do you make of Williams boycotting DC Comics after King’s apparent attack on Christianity?
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This controversy hinges, as I see it, on one word: “your.”
Diana isn’t denouncing God as she frees herself; she is denouncing “his” God.As the article says, Diana says,
“I…I do not believe…your…words…you words. I…do not…I do not…believe your…your…God.”
Nearly every piece of text, set of numbers or (these days, sadly) “scientific fact” can be manipulated into meaning something completely new or the exact opposite of the actual meaning. This has been and continues to be especially true of Biblical scripture, due to the many different translations of the text we have available to us and the scriptural interpretations that varies greatly between denominations as well as individual church leaders.
This allows the Sovereign to use Biblical scriptures out of context to convince Diana that women are less than men. Why be upset with King for using the scripture in this way when the same tactic has been used for decades in real world arguments against Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Movement of the 60s and 70s?
The Sovereign is using the scripture out of context and to suit his own ends. And hearing that while being bound by the Sovereign’s Lasso of Lies, is why Diana includes the word “your” in her declaration to him.
“I…do not…I do not…believe your…your…God.” The Sovereign’s version of God – – the one aided by the Lasso of Lies – – isn’t God at all. Diana isn’t denouncing God or telling the world that she is above God. She is telling herself and her captor that she once again understands the truth, that she sees his words for the twisted lies that they are, and that she knows the Sovereign’s God is not God, but the Devil in disguise.
Frankly, I think this is another piece of masterful writing and storytelling by King.
Stupid. You’re not rejecting God and Christ just because you reject somebody’s version of them. What an extremely ignorant stand to make
I don’t even know where to start with this garbage. Tom King just sounds like someone still whiney and mad that his parents made him get up early on Sunday mornings.