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Andy Mangels is an American science fiction author who has written novels, comics, and magazine articles, and produced DVD collections, mostly focusing on media in popular culture. As an openly-gay man, he has been a longtime advocate for greater visibility of gay and lesbian characters in various media, especially comics, including the coordination and moderation of the annual "Gays in Comics" panel for Comic Con International since it was begun in 1988. He is the founder of an annual "Women of Wonder Day" event, which raises funds for domestic violence shelters and related programs. As of 2011 he has had books on the USA Today "best-selling books" list three times.
Much of his prose fiction has been related to media franchises begun in television. In collaboration with Michael A. Martin, he wrote a conclusion for the events of the cult-hit television series Roswell (which had ended with a cliffhanger) in the novels Pursuit and Turnabout. Mangels and Martin co-wrote a series of novels serving as the official continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise following the television series' cancellation. These include Last Full Measure, The Good That Men Do, and Kobayashi Maru. He and Martin have written several other Star Trek novels, two of which appeared on the USA Today "best-selling books" list. He and Martin contributed a story to Tales of Zorro, edited by Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books in 2008.
Wonder Woman is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986.
Wonder Woman is a warrior Princess of the Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and was created by Marston, an American, as a "distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men." Known in her homeland as Diana of Themyscira, her powers include superhuman strength, flight (even though the original Wonder Woman did not have this ability), super-speed, super-stamina, and super-agility. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses animal-like cunning skills and a natural rapport with animals, which has been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She uses her Lasso of Truth, which forces those bound by it to tell the truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile, and, in some stories, an invisible airplane.
I've been cheated ran out of angels
Now now does it feel being a zero
I drank and slowly lost my mind
Ididn't know but found out in time
The pieces gone but forced to play
Forced to play
I'm setting fire's to burn whats good
Dying slowly all I could
People's passion for me fades away
A hidden plot to end my life
We've all fallen on a knife
Those who knew have gone away
Gone away
Feeling defeated forcing completed
Tack me to the names on the graves
Keepig these promises
Lifts up the darkness
No one can hold me to my end
Sickened insight please once in life
Fallen down just to come up again
We promised all that we could grow
Up together never know