J. Michael Straczynski is the new WONDER WOMAN Writer with WW#600. Like just about every other new writer over the years he plans on "shaking things up" by "fucking with the Origin in not-so-new ways".And similar to other past writers he is giving Diana a new costume. DC has hired JIM LEE to design the new threads. Above is the new costume.
It looks like an amalgam of Wonder Woman Fails of Times Past; The Deodato 90s costumes, and the Elseworlds Pirate Wonder Woman (yes, PIRATE Wonder Woman).
(every comic characer had a jacket in the 90s)DC solicits with:
The Gods, for reasons of their own but which may have something to with their survival and perhaps the survival of Earth itself, have changed the timeline. In the new timeline, years ago the Gods removed their protection from Paradise Island, and left it vulnerable to attack. And attacked it was. Led by a dark figure, a veritable army descended upon the Island, equipped with weapons that could kill even the Amazons. Outgunned, doomed, Hippolyta gave over her three-year-old daughter to a handful of guardians who spirited her away as Hippolyta led one last desperate battle against the forces that had come to destroy all she had created. In that final battle, she and most of the Amazons were killed, though some managed to escape.
It's now nearly twenty years later. Diana has been raised in an urban setting, but with a foot in both worlds. She has little or no memory of the other timeline. She knows only what she's been told by those who raised her On the run, hunted, she must try to survive, help the other refugee Amazons escape the army that is still after them, discover who destroyed Paradise Island and why...and if the timeline can be corrected or not. She also does not yet have access to her full powers, but will be gaining them as she goes.
But wait, it gets better!
DC adds:
"a Wonder Woman look designed for the 21st century" that will allow Diana "to be taken seriously as a warrior, in partial answer to the many female fans over the years who've asked, 'how does she fight in that thing without all her parts falling out?' ...The bracelets are still there, but made more colorful, tied on the inside and over the hand, with a script W on each of them that form WW when she holds them side by side... and if you get hit by one of them, it leaves a W mark. This is a Wonder Woman who signs her work."
"She's been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941," said J. Michael Straczynski. "If you're going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility... What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?"
Lovely.
Why am I surprised at this new crappy direction? It's JMS after all. Maybe he'll roll a 20 and write something good, original and not padded-to-hell. He's done it once or twice before. The only way to find out and have final judgement is to check it out I suppose (*coughbittorrentcough*). But until then, based solely on the preview images and solicit, I'm not interested. The only excitement it caused was me taking the time and energy to bitch about it here.
Here's more of Deodato's 90s WW costume:
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THis is seriously the stupidest idea I've heard.
But, is it just a "story" or are they they seriously trying to re-establishing the character?
either way, speaking as a non-wonderwoman fan (unless she's in another DC book I've picked up, never read her..) This is just a F#@$ing idiotic concept, and idea....jeeezuusss, I'm sorry WW fans, I really am....
-and STOP messing with ICONIC costumes.....
Amazing...why must EVERY new writer decide to put "their" slant on iconic characters? Don't mess with icons, people!!! My big question is...how are they (DC) going to undo this potential mess?
Its all temporary... once JMS leaves the book, a new writer will come onboard and do something else with it.
Electric Superman... 6-Arm Spider-Man... Thor Frog... Red Hulk....
What bugs me is that we rarely get a GOOD SOLID Wonder Woman... and now we'll have to wait until the next round. I'd much prefer if this was done in an Elseworlds book (oh yeah, Didio cancelled that imprint) instead of transpiring within the pages of WW's monthly solo book.
Looks to me like they FINALLY got it right!
Kidding. But I did really enjoy the Thor turned into a frog storyline.
I'll give you the Thor Frog... it was Walt Simonson after all.
THOR FROG!
and THOR frog "made sense" in the context of the story.....( he was cursed)
The costume would be soo much nicer without that jacket but it wouldn't be a Jim Lee design without extraneous details that take a decent costume and make it silly. Kyle's dog collar, Huntress' open stomach, etc. I drew it up yesterday and I think its fine enough without the jacket http://twitpic.com/2179oc but with it its just kind of unsuperheroey and nineties.
I will say though, I read the lead in in #600 and I'm interested in the direction JMS is doing and I am not a big JMS fan. One of the things he noted in the back of the book was that the character, while iconic, makes people feel uncomfortable when she's acting young. While that may be a generalization, there's some truth to it. Wonder Woman has a weird stigma attached to her where, if she's not a stiff, overly-righteous character, people think she's not being handled with enough respect. That's fine, but it makes her so flat in the books, I'm interested to see how he handles this and hope for the best. Besides... no way this lasts more than a year or two.
I am so tired of no f-ing continuity in comics anymore! Writers used to come aboard and write original stories, but they adhered (mostly) to the heroes established past. I don't have a problem with adding to the past i.e. Winter Soldier, but don't completely rewrite it and erase/"retcon" the original. What we have now in comics because of this is a bunch of the same characters with different origins and different pasts so that you don't know what the F is "real" anymore. Did Juggernaut get his powers from Cytorrak or is he a mutant? Did he throw the ruby into space or didn't he? Is the Beyonder an all powerful being from beyond, and incomplete cosmic cube, or an inhuman mutant? Even the Kingpin's origin has been unnecessarily changed. This is why I really don't collect new comics anymore. I am going to try the new Thanos series but my hoped aren't high.
You forgot about Gladiator's sister ( or some female version of him), " Aegis and Tenebrous ( the two CRAZY ' ancient "Proemial Gods" that existed at the beginnning of the universe, who we've never heard of, or even refered to or mentioned, or HINTED at anywhere, but some crazy "creative" writer pulled it out of his ass thinking it's a brilliant idea...
who drew the pirate wonder woman?
I believe the art was done by Jon Buran
Her costume is the new one minus the jacket and tweaked in other ways on the cover of Justice League #1. Does anyone know if this means she's keeping it? I hate to say it but I'm kind of adjusting to it. The first few artworks were a bit ordinary but the variants seemed to make the new duds work a bit better. I think if they were going for a teen wonderwoman type look and storyline like the current arc i could swallow it happily enough but in the JLA she's always been such a matriarch it will be wierd to see her portrayed as an angry teen. Seems a bit reminiscent of supergirl. I'm a chick and i respect the pants direction but i would of liked at least a look in at the other concepts. Maybe they could have opened it up to fans and artists alike to redesign her and had a vote or at least given us a say. Meh.... I'll probably keep buying it regardless of her outfit.
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