On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Trevor Trevor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wonder Woman gets tough, modern makeover > > http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/06/30/wonder-woman-new-look.html > > DC Comics has unveiled a tougher new look for Wonder Woman, as part of > a darker, contemporary storyline that reboots the iconic super > heroine's tale. > > DC officials revealed the dramatic change late Tuesday for Wonder > Woman #600, which is available in comic book stores on Wednesday. > > The Amazonian heroine's image has been redesigned by comics artist and > recently named DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee for a new tale penned by > noted writer J. Michael Straczynski (who is also behind DC's just > announced Superman Grounded series) that drastically changes her > backstory. > > "Suppose someone went back in time and changed one thing, and it > changed your life to the point that you had little or no memory of > what life had been like before the change happened. What would you do > to get it back? Should you get it back? Who did it? And maybe more > important…why did they do it? That is the question faced by Diana > starting in issue 600," Straczynski told fans in a statement on the DC > website. > > In the alternative new arc, Wonder Woman's idyllic birthplace Paradise > Island is attacked by an unknown force that slaughters most of the > Amazonian clan. Before her death, doomed queen Hippolyta passes her > infant daughter Diana to a few guardians who escape the island and > raise the child in an urban setting — though the refugees remain > constantly hunted and on the run. > > Though the revamped costume features revamped versions of the > character's magical accessories (the famed bracelets, tiara and > lasso), it is considerable less revealing than the one-piece > swimsuit-like original, with a dark red tank top tucked into black > leggings and boots. A cropped, midnight blue jacket completes the > ensemble. > > The "street-fighter's look" is a bit more universal considering the > original's undeniable connotations to the American flag, Lee has said. What a weird coincidence, the same thing happened to me. Or at least it felt like it when my family moved a young me to the inner-city Detroit in the late 1980s. They'll be lucky if that reboot lasts as long as my gritty-urban reboot did (about two years). Reaction has been rather harsh to the redesign, even among the female fans<http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/06/30/wonder_woman_wardrobe_fail/index.html>. (Lynda Carter being one of the notable exceptions<http://abcnews.go.com/WN/womans-wardrobe-lower-heels-biker-jacket-sexy/story?id=11046362>-- on the flip side, I think they actually had to rush Nikki Finke<http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/dc-comics-decides-to-ruin-wonder-woman/>to the hospital after she saw it.) To be fair, my fear is that they're going to go again down the road of the gritty 90s anti-hero type story telling, which seems to have gotten a second leash on life thanks to Nolan's "Dark Knight Saga" (as fans are calling it now) and BSG, even though it didn't work quite as well for most other properties that went darker and edgier. Curiously, TVWeek speculates<http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2010/06/wonder-woman-gets-updated-supe.php>that the reboot was done with TV or film in mind. The summary does read like a log line for a TV treatment. And lets admit, only one person managed to pull off that original costume, the aforementioned Lynda Carter.) (Aside, in the comments to this post on Jezebel<http://jezebel.com/5576476/wonder-woman-gets-rad-redesign>, I found the results of an old contest<http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2007/11/26/wonder-woman-wardrobe-war-winners/>to redesign WW's uniform.) -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
