[ze fly]

Pics from the Guy Gardner series in 1993, featuring Boodikka, the green lantern of amazonic proportions.
Boodikka was a tall, well-muscled humanoid alien with pale skin and reddish black hair. At three centuries of age, the warrior Boodikka of the planet Bellatrix was recruited to join the then-reconstituted Green Lantern Corps.
These are not the most impressive renditions of this character, :- but i post them anyway. If i can get my hands back on my other comics featuring her, i'llpost the pics then…  😛

No.10 July 1993

[cpbell0033944]

Boodikka?
Based, I presume, on the Iceni warrior Queen Boudicca, or, as traditionalists like me prefer, Bodicea?
The reason I ask is that I was born and bred (and still live) in the part of England that she ruled at that time – this was Iceni heartland.  I therefore feel great loyalty to her – she was THE great Amazon of British history.  In the US you have Annie Oakley, I suppose, the French have Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc), but Bodicea was THE woman.

[btx]

When Bodikka was first introduced in Green Lantern she was MUCH bigger (and more on the masculine side) unlike you Ze, I'm too goddamned lazy to dig out the old comics for a scan. Maybe you have them.

BTX

[ze fly]

Boodikka?
Based, I presume, on the Iceni warrior Queen Boudicca, or, as traditionalists like me prefer, Bodicea?
The reason I ask is that I was born and bred (and still live) in the part of England that she ruled at that time – this was Iceni heartland.  I therefore feel great loyalty to her – she was THE great Amazon of British history.  In the US you have Annie Oakley, I suppose, the French have Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc), but Bodicea was THE woman.

That's what i guessed too… Just like in Vae Victis!

[Grandmaster]

In the US you have Annie Oakley, I suppose…

Annie Oakley?! ::) Man, we suck.

[cpbell0033944]

Annie Oakley?! ::) Man, we suck.

Sorry, have I forgotten anyone important?  I usually pride myself on my knowledge of US history, but I may well have erred.

[Grandmaster]

No, it's not your fault…I mean, look how we bastardized Bodicea. "BOO-dee-kah"! 😀

[cpbell0033944]

No, it's not your fault…I mean, look how we bastardized Bodicea. "BOO-dee-kah"! 😀

Actually, the bastardisation was British.  :'(  Some academic re-read an old text, and realised that that earlier academics had mis-read the spelling of her name.  The new accepted spelling – Boudicca – IS indeed pronounced Boo-dee-kah.  The reason that I hate it is that it sounds to much like boutique to me – too frilly and flouncy.  Bodicea (pronounced Bo-de-cea) sounds much more Amazonian and heroic.

[AlexG]

Sorry, have I forgotten anyone important?  I usually pride myself on my knowledge of US history, but I may well have erred.

Well if your looking for American Amazonian impact, Carry Nation certainly packed a wicked battle-axe and knew how to use it on taverns and saloons in her temperance crusade – heck, she's chiefly responsible for the 18th Amendment which banned (for a time) the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol in the USA.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[David]

Well if your looking for American Amazonian impact, Carry Nation certainly packed a wicked battle-axe and knew how to use it on taverns and saloons in her temperance crusade – heck, she's chiefly responsible for the 18th Amendment which banned (for a time) the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol in the USA.

Women! Can't live with 'em. Can't make 'em big enough!

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