Philippos Fourty-Two ([info]philippos42) wrote,
@ 2008-11-18 02:40:00
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Entry tags:filing off the serial numbers, wonder woman

Wondie is supposedly part of the Trinity, but in execution, this often turns into Wondie being Clark & Bruce's pet female, who they help out. Somehow she's in their club, but is as junior to them as the Ray or somebody--instead of being an independent powerhouse in her own right.

And this is in Heinberg's run on her book.

(I also posted this as a response, to which I link because of the response ahead of me, reproduced here:)
But I think all that really needs to happen is for one writer for whom Wonder Woman works as a muse. Wonder Woman hasn't a had a Frank Miller like Batman, or an Alex Ross like Superman. Actually, I think the most compelling WW in the last twenty years has been the one in Kingdom Come.

If I could make myself write, I would be that writer. I was just thinking today, I want to do for WW what Frank Miller did for Daredevil, even though that's arguably impossible with all the history & baggage she has.

I should just make up my own character, right? With her own long-lost twin sister & spunky kid sidekick, & I'd never be stuck with the purple ray or mandated Superman crossover....




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[info]mechanicaljewel
2008-11-19 12:42 am UTC (link)
I'm optimistic about Gail, though it wouldn't hurt if they put some energy into putting out a DKR-level book for Wondy. Obviously, not directly aping what DKR did for Batman, but get a bunch of talented writers to propose stories for a Wonder Woman graphic novel that would best fit the character's strengths and weaknesses.

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[info]digital_eraser
2008-11-19 03:17 am UTC (link)
Y'know, even if I weren't crap at writing, I think DC would be too scared by my idea for a DKR-esque Wonder Woman story. Partly because I'd turn it into a very feminist/equality thing, with Paradise Island being sort of a different dimension, a place that has people of both genders, but that has the same level of discrimination against males as there is against females on Earth. The anti-female discrimination is at first culture shock for Wonder Woman, but eventually she realizes how wrong discrimination is in general, and is trying to show both sides the errors of her ways, becoming a true beacon of equality.

And if that wasn't enough to scare them, I also wouldn't shy away from making occasional subtle jokes about the character's bondage origins. ;-)

Different, yeah. But then, no existing run of WW has ever really resonated with me.

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[info]digital_eraser
2008-11-19 03:30 am UTC (link)
That link you gave, though...wow, I couldn't disagree with the quoted text more. Mainly because I've always found the idea of a solo character having more than one book to be absolutely ridiculous...not to mention less accessible. It makes the stories seem more special if there's only one book you need to follow to keep up with what the character is doing. Makes it seem more like a real world, when you don't have four different books telling stories in four different voices. When I first started reading comics, I bought only Uncanny X-Men, none of the other spin-offs, because that one seemed like the "real" one...the one that really mattered.

I didn't start reading Spidey until they finally cut it down to just two books. I probably would've read Batman and Superman growing up if they only had one book each (especially Batman, because I was really into the two Tim Burton movies when they came out). Instead, I never really got into either of their comics at all. I at least tried WW for awhile, because she only had one book, but the story didn't really grab me.

Multiple books with the same character just seems like it stretches things thinner, watering it down.

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