Bad enough we've got Robin running 'round in Batman's tights, while Batman's all lost-in-time pretending to be a caveman and a pirate and a cowboy. Bad enough we've had to put up with two years of Superman not being in any of his own titles, only to come back just so's he can go
walk across America, in the lamest set-up since that old bloke gave Green Lantern a bollocking for being out of touch with the ordinary folks ( of course he's out of touch with the ordinary folks, you barmy old coffin-dodging loon! he's an inter-galactic policeman, not Jesse fucking Jackson! he fights world-devouring space monsters and cosmic tyrant types! you want someone to take out the smack dealer on the corner or your local pimp, give Batman a fucking ring! oh, wait, you can't. he's lost-in-time. . . ) all them years back. bad enough, indeed, yes. But now they're dumping
everything that has gone before out of Wonder Woman. I shit you not, gentle reader. Everything. Again. And
this is Wonder Woman's costume, now. As designed by Jim
Back to the fucking 'Nineties Lee, and drawn by Don
who he? Kramer.
Look, I
know I'm not the most progressive, forward-thinking of comic readers. And I
know this is only gonna be around for a year, two years max, before some other writer gets roped in and they give her the whole
SHE'S BACK! THE ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN! schtick thing. But! I want to read good new Batman comics! not Robin dressed up as Batman comics! I want to read good new Superman comics! not
"you'll believe a man can stroll!" And I want to read good Wonder Woman comics! not
everything that has gone before is a lie Wonder Woman comics. I ask you: what was wrong with a bit of gratuitous star-spangled arse-crack? honestly?
Fuck it. Here's a
really cool pic of Wonder Woman, looking all
really Wonder Woman-like by Nicola Scott.
Now,
that is how you draw a Wonder Woman.
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19 comments:
More proof that JMS gets by ripping off other people's plots. Only this time = Wonder Woman via Moore's Marvelman/ Swamp Thing: "Everything you thought you knew IS A LIE!"
Also: that jacket is awful. And does Black Canary realise WW's stolen it? Or was it nicked from the props department of THE BREAKFAST CLUB?
Editor should take him aside "The. Whole. Point. Is. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE KINKY! IDIOT!"
THANKYOU!
to uote Mr Horse on Ren and Stimpy... "No Sir, i dont like it!'
Haven't read comics in years, and I don't think I'm missed a thing.
Totally agree with you!!
Joe: I'm with you all the way. I don't know what the hell is wrong with DC anymore. Tried reading a Green Lantern comic recently. It was chocked full of bullshit dialogue - made GL sound like some dumb ass, over-sensitive teenager. A soap opera, is what is was. Pitiful.
About the new Wonder Woman, one can only wonder how many dozens of committee meetings it took to produce such lifeless, sexless, dull, generic pap. Jesus, they even made big tits boring. Absolutely stupid.
I refuse to give up on new comics, though. I've been reading Daredevil, and that seems pretty decent.
God luv ya, Joe! I agree with each and every word! Seems to me they changed WW once before back in the late 60's with DISASTEROUS results. I think the people running the "big 2" are out of their minds and should be impeached!! And one thing further, to the Denny O'Neils, Frank Millers, and Alan Moores of the world: comics do not need to progressive...comics need to be FUN! This new WW...ain't fun.
Artman2112: nope. not one bit.
Matt: not a lot, mate, no.
Lotus Flower: THANKYOU!
Mykal: Green Arrow blows chunks. haven't read Daredevil in years. aren't they turning him into a villain now?
John: THANKYOU!
I'm not perfectly sure that we're going to see retcon here, because this make-over may result from Warner Brothers wanting to make a Wonder Woman movie, and deciding that one with the character as originally conceived would run into trouble of one sort or another.
In that case, if a movie is made, and movie-goers (who are not conterminal with comic-book lovers) embrace this new conception, then you're stuck with her for rather a long time.
If the movie is persistently unreleased, or fails at the box-office, then we are indeed assured of retcon, itself almost certainly pathetically effected, with swipes at the fans who demanded it.
Joe: Regarding Daredevil: Actually, I've gone back a bit and have started around issue #100 when Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark were doing the series. The art looks very different than the usual half-ass, nearly anime I find everywhere.
I picked up a most recent Daredevil the other day at the comic shop, but didn't read it. But I thought I noticed daredevil had a noticable stubble (gulp). I pray they don't turn him into the dull, scruffy thug batman has become.
Haven't bought a comic that wasn't reprints in years. I have never liked JMS, and this does nothing to change my opinion.
I'm old. And nothing wrong with that. It looks to me as if the editorials (Marvel, DC, Dynamite's Green Hornet, Dark Horse's Solar, ...) are trying to "new coke" their characters.
I don't relate and I won't be reading Wonder Woman, but who can blames them? An uncle of mine told me a quarter of century ago "so, this is the Superman today?" about a Jose Luis García López story and I looked at him as if he was crazy.
The trouble with DC is that their way to "new coke" isn´t working. And that there's not an alternative to us old readers (and re-reading our collections doesn't count. We do that anyway).
I DO hope that this get to be a good comic... even when I will not be reading it.
Funny thing is I was a DC guy and now I´m reading Hawkeye @ Mockingbird (because they are a better Green Arrow & Black Canary) and Daredevil (whose actuallization did work).
Daniel: makes a lot of sense. I'd forgotten they've been punting around a Wonder Woman movie for a few years now.
Mykal: I've not read Brubaker's Daredevil, but I'm assured it's really good, if you like Daredevil. In all fairness, I haven't read Daredevil since The Man Without Fear.
Robert: I'm steadily moving in that direction, myself.
Anonymous: you're right, of course, and I'm guessing I just like your Uncle. I just don't get why you need to fiddle with something that so obviously works. you want to breathe new life into your characters? get good writers and artists to produce good comics, then. don't worry about the pyrotechnics, they'll take care of themselves.
I haven't read a decent Black Canary comic in years.
I first came across the redesign from a Felicia Day Tweet:
"I don't mean to be critical, but Wonder Woman's new outfit: Is she wearing jeggings and shoulderpads? Stirrups?!"
And thats been pretty much the reaction from every woman who has seen the outfit. If they wanted to tone down the sexuality of the costume then why not get a woman to do the redesign? Or at least a guy who understands what women actually wear.
Geez the old outfit did make a girl feel a bit inadequate, but WW was supposed to be the ultimate woman. The new outfit is just... sad.
Kayla: the sexuality of the costume is what Wonder Woman is. as Mark so rightly put it, the costume is SUPPOSED TO BE KINKY. the new outfit just stinks of fake 'nineties street cred tosh.
DC Comics has Gail Simone, Nicola Scott, Amanda Conner and a slate of other fine female creators who have received wide acclaim and demonstrated the ability to produce topnotch comics - some of them on Wonder Woman - and they chose to give this project to Joe Straczynski. The guy who walked away from "The Twelve" at Marvel, leaving that mini-series uncompleted and left fans hanging?
And Jim "I can't get my books out on time" Lee gets to do the redesign?
Dan DiDio really deserves a kick in the stones, along with the other marketing, editing and managerial dumbasses at DC who decided this. What were they smoking?
Chuck: right on, matey.
Lotus Flower, revisted: just been wandering around your blog, chum. lovely stuff.
Too right, my brutha. There are good comics being pub'd these days, but--as with most things--90% are crap. Bendis writes well, so he's in the top 10%, as is Ed Brubaker (writer) Mark Waid (writer) and several other writers. This is the era of the WRITER, my friends. There are many fine artists these days but the WRITER makes the book. In the '60s, onward, the artist was king. No longer. Good thing too--otherwise 100% wd be crap, like this WW rubbish.
I am too grown up to read superhero comics (I tell myself) but THESE days, unlike times of yore, there are LOTS of NON-superhero comics around. LOTS! And far more than 10% of those are cool. Check em out! Of course, the price tag is absurd! Comics were cool when you cd buy a handful for UNDER a dollar.
I can't afford to buy this stuff, not at all. So it's online viewing for me...and the kindness of friends.
link, mate, I'm too grown up, meself, and I suspect that's the problem. I know comics are never going to be like they were when I was a kid, ever again, but when I read superhero comics these days - not very often, I admit - I can't figure out who they're aimed at. obviously, not kids, that's for sure. I don't know. just don't seem to be a lot of FUN around, anymore, y'know?
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