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Peter Martin
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For heaven's sake, JMS' comments just sound so misguided. Her family is slaughtered? What makes him think WW needs something like this? The approach that needs to be taken with WW is thinking what must be kept first. The most iconic, memorable, best elements need to be kept. Those would be first the costume and second Paradise Island.

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Joe S. Walker
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 3:06am | IP Logged | 2  

I'll be surprised if that costume sticks around for a year.
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Mike Norris
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Not sure that cribbing from Superman's origin is the best way to reinvigorate Wonder Woman. Does every hero need to be clouded in tragedy? They even have GL and Flash motived by the deaths of family members now.
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Wil Overton
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 4:12am | IP Logged | 4  

That looks like an anime costume to me, or something inspired by 80's punk rock.

Maybe both. She needs a pink Mohawk, a barcode on her neck and an invisible giant robot suit to pilot (where all her clothes explode off of her body when she 'melds' with it!). Plus, she's now 12 years old. Sorted! 
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William McCormick
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That looks like an anime costume to me, or something inspired by 80's punk rock.

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I take it that you don't know much about the 80's punk rock scene if you think that's how they dressed?
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 4:40am | IP Logged | 6  

Looks like the sort of thing someone shopping at Wal-Mart could put together

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Or something you'd get when you have a male artist who has absolutely no fashion sense designing an outfit.

(Now, watch this turn out to have been designed by a female artist ---- who has absolutely no fashion sense.)

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Paulo Pereira
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 6:13am | IP Logged | 7  

If no one told me, I'd have never have guessed that that was Wonder Woman.
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Brad Brickley
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 6:27am | IP Logged | 8  

The contempt of the email in question at the start of the thread is nothing to the contempt of the "comic" writer towards Wonder Woman.  Such an arrogant fucker about "HIS" take on a modern Wonder Woman.  Dude, go write your own stuff and leave our comics alone.  Why do they keep this guy in comics? 

I didn't notice if there will be a Wonder Totem involved, did I miss that?  Oh well, another comic to drop.  It gets easier all the time. 
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Andrew Burton
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The costume was designed by Jim Lee. I'm not a huge fan of the jacket or long pants but I like the top. I still don't think she needed a re-design anyhow.
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Aaron Smith
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 6:46am | IP Logged | 10  

Yuck! It makes Wonder Woman look like Jubilee!

 

 

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Bobby Beem
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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 7:04am | IP Logged | 11  

It's funny that they dismissively mention the "hip" costume from the late '60s, as if this isn't just an update of the exact same thing.

Is she still going to have powers? I can't imagine a super strong and largely invulnerable hero running around in such a restrictive costume. If they want to play "realistic,"  they aren't doing a very good job of it.

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Mark Waid on JMS' Wonder Woman interview: "Dear big-name comics egomaniac: just ONCE can you talk about your genius in an interview without crapping on the work of your predecessors?"
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