The DC Comics universe features powerful deities like Hecate, Desaad, Steppenwolf, Ares, Circe, Darkseid, Yuga Khan, and Perpetua. These ancient gods appear as both antagonists and allies ...

Credit: Public Domain There are many strong and powerful women, or femme fatales, who became known for their ruthlessness and cunning ways in Greek mythology, such as Circe, Clytemnestra, and Medea.

But Circe is not the only fierce and formidable woman in her story, and the novel abounds with other powerful women from Greek myth, such as Medea and Pasiphae, whose characters illustrate the ...

The shift in color and tone when Circe is the focus compared to Hecate paints quite a picture, and the flow of the panels gives everything an almost dream-like tone as hard truths are also delivered.

Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, Unfreeze Afghanistan (which ...