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Wonder Woman to finally start wearing pants
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 06/30/10 | Albert Ching

Posted on 06/30/2010 12:00:44 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Wonder Woman has a bold new look, one of the most dramatic changes of her 70-year history.

Criticized for years for fighting crime in effectively a one-piece swimsuit — often considered either sexist or simply impractical — the DC Comics icon has a new costume as of this week's Wonder Woman #600, and it's one considerably less revealing, complete with long pants and a jacket. Signature elements such as the character's bracelets, tiara and magic lasso remain. The costume was designed by acclaimed penciler and DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee.

DC Comics announced the change Tuesday evening.

"It’s a look designed 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?'" said incoming series writer J. Michael Straczynski.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


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To: evets

her off stage politics aside, she was a lot of wonderful woman (a benchmark, imo)


21 posted on 06/30/2010 12:19:48 PM PDT by llevrok (These days, I am a stranger in the country I was born and raised.)
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To: GeronL
The New WW is probably a lesbian too.

I guess I could deal with that.


22 posted on 06/30/2010 12:22:52 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: evets

THATS Wonder Woman!

[And her two crime fightin buds...]


23 posted on 06/30/2010 12:23:07 PM PDT by Adder (Note to self: 11-2-10 Take out the Trash!!!)
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To: evets

Hence: the Wonder Bra.


24 posted on 06/30/2010 12:25:46 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

looks Goth. She’s supposed to be really patriotic, not sullen and greasy-haired. You expect fangs when she opens her mouth. The pants look better than I thought they would, but I would tidy up the hair and maybe some white could be worked in somewhere so she has red/white/blue somehow, subtly, in the motif.


25 posted on 06/30/2010 12:26:22 PM PDT by married21
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Could be worse:


26 posted on 06/30/2010 12:26:22 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz; JoeProBono

The Golden Age is over.

27 posted on 06/30/2010 12:26:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz; JoeProBono
OVER OVER OVER.


28 posted on 06/30/2010 12:27:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Cowman

did you miss the Captain America graphic novel controversy??

It was the TEA Partiers that were the big threat!


29 posted on 06/30/2010 12:28:31 PM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to conservativecave.com, it rots your teeth!)
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To: relictele

Hehe. Kagan is what came to my mind too.


30 posted on 06/30/2010 12:29:26 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Larry Lucido

My late father loved Xena until they started pushing the lesbian stuff, at which point he very quickly turned the show off and found better shows to watch.


31 posted on 06/30/2010 12:30:01 PM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Long Time Lady Lurker)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Just had to get rid of the American Flag look. At least its not the O’s colors.


32 posted on 06/30/2010 12:30:01 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: colorado tanker

I always thought it would have been nice if someone had given Lynda Carter a sandwich, but yumpin’ yimminy that was a pretty woman. I think she still is.


33 posted on 06/30/2010 12:31:24 PM PDT by stevem
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To: sockmonkey
Then there was THIS reboot too:

The first attempt to translate Wonder Woman to the small screen occurred in 1967.

The success of the Batman television series led Batman producer William Dozier to commission a pilot script by Stan Hart and Larry Siegel. Batman writer Stanley Ralph Ross was then asked to perform a re-write, after Hart and Siegel's script was deemed unsuitable.[1][2].

A portion of the pilot, under five minutes in length, was filmed under the title Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?[3] The piece starred Ellie Wood Walker (Robert Walker Jr.'s wife) as Diana Prince, Linda Harrison as Diana's Wonder Woman alter ego and Maudie Prickett as Diana's mother.

In the proposed series Diana Prince (not Wonder Woman) would have been the focus of the comedy. Diana, an awkward and rather plain young woman, lives with her mother close to a United States Air Force base. Much of the film consists of her mother berating Diana about not having a boyfriend. When her mother leaves the room, Diana changes into her Wonder Woman costume and admires her reflection in a mirror. What she sees is not Diana Prince, but rather a sexy super-heroic figure (played by Linda Harrison) who proceeds to preen and pose as the song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" plays on the soundtrack. The pilot ends with Diana climbing out a window and flying away, indicating that, despite her apparent delusions regarding her alter ego, she does have some super powers. This pilot episode was never broadcast and the project was taken no further.

The pilot has been circulated on the Internet and is of interest to Planet of the Apes fans for the early appearance of Linda Harrison, who would later go on to play Nova in the first two films of that series.

(wiki)


34 posted on 06/30/2010 12:31:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Still luscious!

Um...don’t tell Lois I said that.


35 posted on 06/30/2010 12:32:18 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Vuvuzela: The ancient, traditional, injection-molded polystyrene horn of the Zulu people.--Wideawake)
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To: stevem
yumpin’ yimminy ??

Wow gramps, a little old for drooling after wonder woman aint ye? /sarc
36 posted on 06/30/2010 12:34:51 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: a fool in paradise

Very cool.
Right up there with the screen tests for Burt Ward and Adam West...


37 posted on 06/30/2010 12:35:12 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: evets

How much tape do you think it took to keep them in that top? The wonder and the fury that you witness in nature truly takes the breath away.


38 posted on 06/30/2010 12:36:06 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Mr. Silverback

The cartoonists should draw up some cartoon testicles and send them to the feminists, since the feminists effectively took theirs.


39 posted on 06/30/2010 12:36:33 PM PDT by gthog61
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

She has always worn pants — as Katharine Hepburn would say, a lady does not wear pants, only trousers or slacks.


40 posted on 06/30/2010 12:42:06 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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