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Wall Street’s Fearless Girl Gets a Wonder Woman Upgrade

While the origin and purpose of Fearless Girl might be debated about, the Wall Street statue has taken on a life of its own acting as a symbolism of strength. Brooklyn resident Don Phelps has taken that to the next step adding Wonder Woman’s tiara to the statue making it a little more badass.

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Ex Machina #50

Mayor Hundred – Thinking about crap like that is what Government does best.  It’s the unthinkable we always fuck up.

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Kremlin – Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever.  These are just Coke and Pepsi, different names same watered-down shit.

Fables #97

Brock – Stinky was my farm prisoner-bondage name, and I won’t hear it any longer.

Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher #2

Priest – Even when it looked like the economy was no longer sliding down the drain, the aftershock was throwing so many people out of work.  CNN may have talked about recovery, but in the blue-collar trenches we were back to the Great Depression.  It felt like those Wall Street fiends had sold all our souls to the devil.  In my vanity and naiveté I thought, well, at least things have bottomed out.  Things have to get better from here.

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Avengers: The Initiative #26

Constrictor – Look.  I’m far from the only American to lose limbs serving their country.  Like them, I’m proud of what I’ve done.

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The Hood – Taskmaster’s right.  You’re a natural.  Comparing us to the troops.  That bit about you holding your kids… you should get an Oscar.

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Ultragirl – So the end justifies the means?

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The Hood – When you see some guy who ran a company into the ground walk away with forty million, is he wearing a skull mask and underwear outside his pants?  No.  He’s wearing a suit, and nine times out of ten, even though he’s into shady crap up to his eyeballs, he gets away scot-free.  The guys in power rip off the public a hell of a lot worse than we ever did.  But now —  finally — we are the guys in power.

Dark Wolverine #76

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli