Posted on 06/30/2010 8:29:51 AM PDT by tlb
Wednesday is a good day for Wonder Woman. This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new — and less revealing — costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly series.
The costume ties into an alternative history for the character devised by J. Michael Straczynski , the new writer of the series.
Mr. Straczynski, who created the television show “Babylon 5” and wrote the screenplay for “Changeling” in 2008, starring Angelina Jolie, said in an e-mail message that he wanted to address “the wardrobe issue” as soon as he took the job.
“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Mr. Straczynski wrote. “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.”
He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”
In a 2006 interview about her work on the series, the novelist Jodi Picoult said: “One of the first things I did was ask if we could give her breast-reduction surgery, because as a woman, I know you wouldn’t fight crime in a bustier. But I was somehow shot down by DC.”
The new costume will almost certainly be better received than the curveball thrown Wonder Woman in 1968, when she lost her powers, dressed mod and practiced martial arts. It took the attention of no less than Gloria Steinem to protest the change.
Ms. Steinem went on to use Wonder Woman, resplendent in red, white and blue, on the cover of the first issue of Ms. magazine in 1972. A cover line proclaimed, “Wonder Woman for President.”
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So the Left finally got around to slut-trashing Wonder Woman.
And now they’ll instruct all the liberal zombies to praise it as “liberation.”
Never been a huge WW fan. In the realm of DC superheroes, she’s a distant follower to Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Hawkman, and the Flash.
But ... I like the new getup. Most of the DC characters have had at least some makeover since starting — either through movies, comic revisions, Smallville appearances, etc. Batman has been reinvented about 5 times. Superman was reinvented with Reeve, Smallville ... not to mention the Death of Superman stuff.
The old WW getup seems stale. She’s overdue for a revision.
SnakeDoc
LOL--Wonder Cougar Woman
Seriously, are those stirrup pants?
Agreed.
But, most DC heros have always had limited fascination for me.
Superman is too invinceable. With him in your universe, do you really need anybody else?
Batman and Flash are probably my favorites, but Green Arrow has seen some interesting incarnations, as well.
My wife would be far more likely to wear something that looks similar to the new outfit than to wear knee-high boots, barely-below-the-crotch shorts, and a corset (at least outside of the house ... heh heh).
SnakeDoc
with JMS in the driver’s seat, this ought to be good
Is this guy high or on some other drugs? Who does he think reads these comics and who does he think draws these comics?
Apparently, nothing that even remotely suggests “American heroism” is permitted in popular culture any longer as evidenced by the fact that anything that resembles the “red, white and blue” has been stricken from the new costume. More PC run amuk!
He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”
Guess he never heard of Old Crusty.
Am I the only one who senses theme?
I like the new.
The look is great - And JMS gets it right whenever he touches sci-fi (I love the soap-operaesque demeanor of Babylon 5). He keeps it “real”.
The Amazonian story of WW is complete garbage. Make an American girl, and let her actions speak more of patriotism than her bra.
Looks like the same style of 1970s failure wonder woman feminist remake. (pre hit tv series)
essentially it was the same cover it all up issue.
I thought the original was a pinochio theme for a childless amazon.
>>> Am I the only one who senses theme?
Well let’s be delicate and just put it this way...
Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. He wrote:
“The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound ... Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society. ... Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element”
About male readers, he later wrote: “Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to, and they’ll be proud to become her willing slaves!”
It’s actually a prototype for a new character called
“Wonder What’s Under”
Thanks a lot. Can’t unsee the new costume. All my childhood fantasies have been ruined.
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