Near to the Wild Heart opens with a scene of the child Joana playing in the garden, making up poems for her father. Joana's wildness and barely suppressed violence, along with her linguistic creativity, are her most notable features. She is frequently compared to animals: over the course of the book Lispector compares her to a bird, a snake, a wildcat, a horse, and a dog. She commits transgressive acts—as a child she throws a book at an old man's head, for example, and as a married woman she leaves her husband, Otávio, and greets the news of his adultery—he has made another woman, his
Woman in Red (comics) coat, hood, and mask. The Woman in Red made her debut in "Thrilling Comics" #2 (March 1940). Comics historian Trina Robbins has identified the Woman in Red as the first masked female crime fighter, preceding such better known characters as Wonder Woman, Phantom Lady, and Mary Marvel, with Fantomah, who debuted one month earlier, being the first female superheroine. While the Woman in Red never made a cover appearance, she continued to appear regularly in issues of "Thrilling Comics". Her last Golden Age appearance was in issue #46 (February 1945). Alan Moore revived the Woman in Red, along with many