Hector2 wrote:Dear Dumbtime:
I must confess I have a fetish for the act of trapping the heroines. I think that in recent comics on this site, the villains defeat the heroines very easily and almost didn’t give a thought how to do it. But I always have wanted to see the process how a villain not only catches, but imprisons a heroine. So when I saw the cover and the title of “The trap”, I was truly happy. And even better, you were using a heroine I love, an exported character from Wonder Girl. I knew this must to be great.
And then I saw the thumbnails of Freedom Girl walking into the cube and thought: “What, is this for real?”
No really, when I see Freedom Girl walking into a giant cube with an enormous circular door I was reminded of those old cartoons where a simple box was suspended with only a stick so they can trap any animal dumb enough to fall for it. (But to be honest, this trap worked in cartoons more often than not). So when I saw this image I immediately thought: “Dumbtime must think that Freedom Girl is very intellectually challenged to fall for this.”
Now I know better.
It’s just after reading the story that I realized that Freedom Girl had really good reasons to walk into the cube. Maybe the point is that only Freedom Girl and none other heroine could have walked into the cube. The fact that Freedom Girl and Paula Revere are one and the same is her downfall. I realize you recognize that Freedom Girl is a novice superheroine who really needs to focus on the case, but if you were so blatantly stolen of your work, would not you run into the evidence without a second thought?
Only two things: Why Paula designed such a device as a cube? I understand a cell if you were working with radiation or something (remember Watchmen?) but for this case I don’t see the utility, except to protect the user of being contaminated by the process… (But how?). And if the device is so exact a copy of the planes to the grade to have Paula initials in it’s design… why did Paula install two tweezers into her device?
Well, this work is showing great promise! How much time do you think will take to get the second issue? I’ll be waiting anxiously!
Hector2.
Without giving away too much, Keep the cleverly designed ruse in mind. Paula's old project was abandoned but she was specifically targeted by Digitalus and others for another. Borrowing stuff from an old plan to work in another is common practice, especially if the premise for the new one is the same as the old one. The only difference is the attended target(s) and the purpose of the application. The tweezer arms were not part of her design.
Paula designed the cube for security purpose for accessing the data bank. It also makes for a perfect 'stick and box' trap.
Hope that helps with your questions.
Posted: October 12th, 2011, 2:00 am
Excellent work! I've been wanting to see more Freedom Girl/American Amazon for a while now, and this trap looks all too enticing! Can't wait to see where it's heading! 
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