So Wonder Woman has been relaunched with an ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT approach about a hundred times and almost every time it ends up being basically the same old thing. One of the revamps that happened when I was a kid was when she went from the top with the eagle on the front to the one with the stylized ‘W’ symbol on the front. I never did know how they explained that in-continuity at the time, I just realized her costume was different when she showed up in JLA, but today I discovered the explanation and it couldn’t be dumber if you tried.
So Diana Prince and Steve Trevor get in a standard fight with two standard spies and Steve gets injured. Instead of flying Steve to the hospital at super-speed or something they call an ambulance for him and while Diana’s hanging around waiting for the ambulance these women just walk up to her out of the crowd.
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The “W” stands for “women”, you know.
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“Can’t decide…which top to wear…can’t decide…better ask Mom, she always says I have no taste…”
So she flies back to Paradise Island where Hercules has chained all the Amazons like he does every time he shows up. She beats him in the standard Wonder Woman fight with Hercules and then they get down to the really troubling business: which top to wear?
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The “W” stands for “women”, you know. And to top it off, in case you hadn’t realized it by now, the symbol is actually 2 W’s on top of one another, for Wonder Woman.
Diana is stupid.
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LOL…not actually diana is stupid or wonder woman the writer was/probably still is stupid…wow i never realized why it changed either, i’m a huge wonder woman fan…lol…but that was so STUPID…thanks
Of course it seems stupid now, the original target audience was kids 14 and under. It was shakespeare to them.
Rucka’s run on WW was decent. That’s worth checking out. But otherwise the title has always been “meh”.
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