Divine families in Absolute Wonder Woman and Grimm

Divine families in Absolute Wonder Woman and Grimm There's another connection between Absolute Wonder Woman and Grimm that I wanted to finish with: what these families are willing to do to each other. We've already gone through the Grimm family relationships, but Circe and Enver make an interesting pair to put beside each other. Absolute Wonder Woman #7 gives Circe a really ugly choice. She knows which door will let Diana escape, but Hades says that escaping means Diana can never return to her until death. Circe still helps her choose freedom. She is willing to lose the person she raised so that Diana can have a life outside that prison. Persephone finds a way to keep that separation from being permanent. The pomegranate arrangement means Diana has to return each year. Something normally associated with being trapped in the Underworld becomes a way for this daughter to keep coming home to her mother. That is what the scene is doing emotionally, beyond the mechanics of the magic. Goddess Inc gives us another divine family, but one already tearing itself apart. In #5, Enver's involvement in the plot against Gregor comes out. Her severed hand was part of the bait for that trap. She wants him punished, yet she also objects when Venus threatens her daughter. That boundary doesn't erase what she helped set in motion. Circe and Enver aren't interchangeable versions of the same mother. Their choices point in very different directions. Circe accepts a personal loss for Diana's freedom. Enver participates in a revenge plot, then tries to keep the damage from reaching her child. Putting those scenes together shows how much these books get out of divine family relationships. The gods and witches can survive things ordinary people can't, but jealousy, loyalty, resentment and love still drive their decisions. All that power gives those decisions a much wider reach.