Unfortunately.

Legitimate questions.

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Not really.

It is absolutely necessary to understand the LANGUAGE of a particular form. By this, obviously, I don't mean the words in the captions and balloons, or the jargon, or even the literal language, if a foreign publication. I mean those things that add up to make the thing a whole -- to make it what it is.

STAR TREK began with a very simple language. The Enterprise was a big muscle car. It flew faster than light because it had lots and lots of POWER. Mr. Spock could have a human mother and a Vulcan father because that was what Gene Roddenberry wanted. Most of the aliens scattered across the galaxy were indistinguishable from Earth humans because they came from the same casting pool. There was never any need to EXPLAIN these things, or to make the show "realistic". All those elements were the LANGUAGE which was used to tell the stories, and the stories were what mattered.

Then newer "generations" came along, and they wanted to explain everything, and make everything "realistic" -- so that's not the stars moving as the Enterprise slides along thru space, it's "space particles" or somesuch nonsense. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle tells us there's no way the transporter could work as shown, so we have "Heisenberg compensators". Those big nacelles on the back are not just gigantic rockets, they are "warp field generators". Etc, etc.

Comics have suffered a similar fate. Explain everything. Question everything.

And drive away the readers.

Yes. If you want to continue to sell them.

Like I said I would read them either way but I understand why the change. If they want more customers, they have to appeal to a newer generation. I like both costumes but if I had to pick one, I’d go with the pants. They are more modern. I like to see characters change, develop, grow…
Why make new characters when there are thousands to tinker with already? Plus if you make new characters they wouldn’t relate to the older characters.
Take anything in history, cars, computers, language, anything; everything changes. There’s nothing wrong with trying something new.
And… When that Batman special came out (about is it realistic). I heard someone say “It’s possible to be Batman? Cool!” It was a kid… We know it’s not possible to be Batman, Superman, Brainiac 5, etc, but when people can relate more to a character they are more likely to buy the books and merchandise.
You don’t have to explain everything. Superman can fly because he’s an alien. That’s it… I’m just taking about a costume change… “Underwear” on the outside is stupid (more so for the males). There was nothing wrong with Wonder Woman’s bathing suit, I just like the new one better.

As if high heels and thight shorts are ever going to lose their appeal, please.

QUOTE: The "popping out" is obviously a smarmy reference from JMS to Wonder Woman's breasts, and if that was the issue with her old costume then why does her new outfit show just as much cleavage?

Exactly, it's gonna be drawn just as exploitive as her previous ones. Even if it went all the way up to her neck, the artists'd still find a way to throw some cleavage in it.