Bombshells United brings together a
Justice League of the World War II-era versions of DC’s female super-heroes:
Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, etc. This issue also adds a few new ones,
such as Dawnstar and Donna Troy.
I like the
concept, and heaven knows there aren’t enough effective female characters in
comic books these days. But I am dismayed at what appears to be an attempt to
re-write history. The Bombshells unite to free a trainload of Japanese descendants bound for American internment
camps. I don’t deny the wrongdoing of the American government in the 1940s, but
portraying it in this fashion reeks of “social justice warriors.” They can’t
legitimately fix the past, so they re-write it for the benefit of the comics.
But to her
credit, Marguerite Bennett makes the oh-so-valid point that “the things we want
most to forget are the things that must be most remembered.” The internment
camps and other forms of persecution are not wrong because they happened to the
wrong people. It’s that they happened at all.
Diana may
not have the ability to change what has happened. What she hopes to accomplish
to change the future, and that’s what grieves me about the SJW movement. I’ve
been accused of not caring enough about the Native Americans who were
slaughtered by the hundreds in the 19th century. I regret that it happened, but I have no time machine to change it. All I can hope to do is impact the future.
It’s not my
intent to politicize a comic book story, but my interpretation of the first
issue is that it’s a gender-based effort to write a better world. But that shouldn’t
surprise anyone. It is Bombshells in an alternate reality after all.
Rating:
6/10