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[QUOTE=Joao;2525198]Pretty much how I feel. Nicola is a goddess. And as much as I love Bilquis Evely (a fellow Brazilian artist!), her style is drastically different. I'm excited though, [URL="https://www.instagram.com/bilquis/"]her character designs[/URL] are amazing and richly detailed. I hope she fits the story.[/QUOTE]
In a perfect world, Evely will do the post-Year One six and then Nicola Scott the six after, and the two could alternate while Liam Scott continues with the Lies story arcs. Because I do love me some Bilquis Evely too.
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[QUOTE=Dr. Poison;2525167]Right? Nicola Scott has ascended to the "holy trinity" of Wonder Woman artists alongside George Perez and Phil Jimenez in my eyes. Hopefully she comes back to this title after she concludes her next arc of Black Magic.[/QUOTE]
I adore Nicola's art, have ever since she did a one-shot for the Angel TV series tie. I think I heard that Black Magik has...a two year story? Or maybe a 5 year story? Pretty sure she won't come back until that's done.
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The pacing of this has been awful. Ares shows up for 5 seconds and y'all are like "yeah, waaaaaay better than azzarrello!!!" Her using the lasso on him is supposed to last ditch after her physical fighting is squandered and she realizes she can't beat him physically. It's both why it's weird to have him in injustice as well as make this fight so awful. Ares here couldn't beat Ambush Bug.
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[QUOTE=Joao;2525198]Pretty much how I feel. Nicola is a goddess. And as much as I love Bilquis Evely (a fellow Brazilian artist!), her style is drastically different. I'm excited though, [URL="https://www.instagram.com/bilquis/"]her character designs[/URL] are amazing and richly detailed. I hope she fits the story.[/QUOTE]
Ewww, I don't like her style at all.
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[QUOTE=LordTrump;2525758]The pacing of this has been awful. Ares shows up for 5 seconds and y'all are like "yeah, waaaaaay better than azzarrello!!!" Her using the lasso on him is supposed to last ditch after her physical fighting is squandered and she realizes she can't beat him physically. It's both why it's weird to have him in injustice as well as make this fight so awful. Ares here couldn't beat Ambush Bug.[/QUOTE]
Oh how the Gods (and WW herself) are depowered in INJUSTICE. Isn't that the one where she is knocked out for six months (or was it a Year?) after a nuclear explosion?
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What's up with the Gods, did Circe do this to them? Never understood why they need to send an Amazon to handle Ares, can't they just go down there and take care of it themselves?
I really just don't care for this comic and the characters within, it's stodgy, boring, this run is where fun goes to die
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[QUOTE=username_;2526318]What's up with the Gods, did Circe do this to them? Never understood why they need to send an Amazon to handle Ares, can't they just go down there and take care of it themselves?
I really just don't care for this comic and the characters within, it's stodgy, boring, this run is where fun goes to die[/QUOTE]
Gods has always been cowards when it comes to certain things or that it's part of a bigger plan..
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Well...it's an issue where followers of war personified are attempting chemical terrorism in assemblies and schools. I'm okay with it not being a jolly fun romp for twenty-two pages. ;)
I thought Steve's reaction to the gods was pretty funny, anyway. I mean, Diana basically defeats Ares with the help of forest animals! (And see, here are the gods helping her "take care of it") You don't get much more quirky than that.
In any case, one of the general rules of WW through the years is that Ares has become more powerful than the other gods due to the widespread presence of war and brutality in the world; that's why Diana even has to leave her home to come deal with it, after all. This was the case even back -- maybe [i]especially[/i] -- during the 40s.
What I liked was Diana's repudiation of that, of her revelation that war and brutality are fundamentally untrue...not just for herself but for the rest of the world as well. It was just a flat-out feel-good, optimistic response to Ares' doctrine and a great testament to the core of Diana's mission and character. "This world already belongs to me!" "Then [i]from[/i] you...we will take it [i]back[/i]."
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[QUOTE=LordTrump;2525758]The pacing of this has been awful. Ares shows up for 5 seconds and y'all are like "yeah, waaaaaay better than azzarrello!!!"[/QUOTE]
Maybe that's because Rucka's Ares actually looked and acted like the iconic version of Ares instead of a Frank Gallagher(Shameless) clone.
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I like the look of both Ares'. But if we're talking characterization, Azz's blows this away. If there was a way to get a curmudgeonly old man vibe off Ares with this current look? That'd be sweet. The Shakespearean performances though is lame.
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[QUOTE=Sacred Knight;2527172]I like the look of both Ares'. But if we're talking characterization, Azz's blows this away. If there was a way to get a curmudgeonly old man vibe off Ares with this current look? That'd be sweet. [B]The Shakespearean performances though is lame.[/B][/QUOTE]
Wait, seriously?
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Yup. Looks awesome, have always loved that armor, but didn't like the voice Rucka gives him as much.
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Sounds like a total drag.
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[QUOTE=Sacred Knight;2527190]Yup. Looks awesome, have always loved that armor, but didn't like the voice Rucka gives him as much.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the megalomania rubs me the wrong way. If Ares is to be Diana's #1 foe, he has to be capable of a wider range. And be subtle. Even the Joker is capable of that.
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Decent story but the overall pacing of this series is horrible. Rucka drags it out for months and then has to seemingly finish it up in a hurry. Ares is wrapped up in the lasso and he's instantly defeated?!? At least he looked cool. So Wonder Woman destroyed the toxic gas...because it wasn't true? Also weren't there attacks about to happen at several other locations? Just because they evacuated those people doesn't mean the terrorists still could release the poison into the air.
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[QUOTE=gwangung;2527458]Yeah, the megalomania rubs me the wrong way. If Ares is to be Diana's #1 foe, he has to be capable of a wider range. And be subtle. Even the Joker is capable of that.[/QUOTE]
I would say the issue here is the lack of page time, he had maybe half the pages of a single comic including his reveal at the end of the last book. Compare and contrast this to the original Perez reboot and you can see who is more developed as a character.
We all knew Aries was going to be the big bad, so why hide him till the very end?
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[QUOTE=Robotman;2527516]Decent story but the overall pacing of this series is horrible. Rucka drags it out for months and then has to seemingly finish it up in a hurry. Ares is wrapped up in the lasso and he's instantly defeated?!? At least he looked cool. So Wonder Woman destroyed the toxic gas...because it wasn't true? Also weren't there attacks about to happen at several other locations? Just because they evacuated those people doesn't mean the terrorists still could release the poison into the air.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Rig;2522438]14 issues in and we don't know what's going on. This ended just like "Lies" arc where we learned nothing. All other rebirth titles are on 3rd or 4th story but Wonder Woman is moving at snails pace. This should have been a weekly.
In some panels her head looks bloated.[/QUOTE]
Yeah this is really how I'm starting to feel about Rucka's run. It's so drawn out and we still have so few answers.
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[QUOTE=Robotman;2527532]Yeah this is really how I'm starting to feel about Rucka's run. It's so drawn out and we still have so few answers.[/QUOTE]
Based on what I have read, it's not so much that it's been short on answers.
It's more that the questions are rather dull.
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[QUOTE=millernumber1;2523117]I think it works well with Lies, but since it's Year One (as I said upthread), I'm really glad it's not too tied to that one story. Lies is clearly meant to send us forward on the trajectory that Rucka will take this book for the two year journey (hopefully more), and is rooted in specific things that have happened recently in Diana's history. Year One is meant to be universal. I much prefer it, as I don't like Morrison's dialogue or characterization At All, and I love Rucka's work in both those areas. I also have a preference for Scott's artwork over, well, almost anyone :). But you're right that Year One was very standalone - I just think that there's more to it than that, and Lies works even better if you read it with Year One.[/QUOTE]
Well, I am just concerned that what Rucka is doing right now is actually a mystery story and we are all waiting to find out just what the devil happened to Diana in the present. But he is giving us nothing in this regard and we are now half a year into this... if it goes on for much longer without the mystery part progressing, then people will start to get bored. There is another example of this that I can think of, sadly, and that was Eric Wallace's generally lamentable Titans run with Deathstroke in the lead... it too went on forever with Deathstroke assembling all the bits he neede and never telling anyone why they were needed... and it wrapped up in the last 2-3 issues where we found out it was because Jericho had somehow contracted somekind of flesheating sickness that was killing him.
I dont know, but I will be dissapointed if the whole Lies/Truth story will pan out like Year One did, with alot of unconnected stuff between beginning and far too much wrapping up near the end.
[QUOTE=spirit2011;2523985]all origins are like a retread of earth one, excepts earth one only go for half of year one.[/QUOTE]
That is true, the question I am asking is... why did we need this story told? The part with Barbara-Ann, that one I get... the rest, not so much.
[QUOTE=Dr. Poison;2524366]Yeah, I'll take big, bad, dramatic Ares over the Frank Gallager-lite(Shameless) version from the New 52 any day.[/QUOTE]
Sadly he's not really a character... he's just some thing that pops up out of nowhere, almost on command, talks some rubbish then gets swatted off. Kinda reminds me of Ronan from GotG, only Ronan had more personality.
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[QUOTE=Stanlos;2526186]Oh how the Gods (and WW herself) are depowered in INJUSTICE. Isn't that the one where she is knocked out for six months (or was it a Year?) after a nuclear explosion?[/QUOTE]
Constantine put a spell on her to stop her from waking up, she wasn't in coma because of ten nukes exploding in her face. In in Injustice universe Wonder Woman isn't weak against phallic shaped objects.
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[QUOTE=Dr. Poison;2527145]Maybe that's because Rucka's Ares actually looked and acted like the iconic version of Ares instead of a Frank Gallagher(Shameless) clone.[/QUOTE]
I don't want Ares looking like a homeless guy
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2527559]
That is true, the question I am asking is... why did we need this story told? The part with Barbara-Ann, that one I get... the rest, not so much.
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DC asked Rucka to build a solid foundation where other writers could build upon further. I think doing Year One is an obvious, safe choice. But it's a shame that her origin was told so many times in the last months that the uniqueness of it was totally faded.
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[QUOTE=Joao;2527863]DC asked Rucka to build a solid foundation where other writers could build upon further. I think doing Year One is an obvious, safe choice. But it's a shame that her origin was told so many times in the last months that the uniqueness of it was totally faded.[/QUOTE]
I don't honestly get why they asked him to do so when writers are perfectly capable of writing stories without it. And with the way it was constructed here, the only story it really helps is Rucka's own, presuming the lone thing of change (the tree) comes back again.
And if it was just for the style-guides sake they could just have pointed and Earth One and gone: it's pretty much that... only Trevor is white and Diana didn't grab him by the nuts.
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Solid, if a bit rushed, conclusion. The artwork was gorgeous as always, but I think overall Year One's strongest moments were in the early chapters with re-establishing a better take on the Amazons and Barbara's stand alone issue. This story probably could have used an extra part to give Ares more room to breathe. But I'm eager to read it all in one-go in trade.
When I read the spoilers, I was expecting the Shakespearean speech pattern to be way more obnoxious than it was. It wasn't even that bad. Perez's hammy dialogue was way worse, and Rucka would write Ares with that dialogue in his old run when he was in Ritual Mode, while being more subtle, devious and modern the rest of the time, so we have a chance to see the latter Ares at some point in this run.
So looks like Etta and Barbara will be a couple after all? Cale did say last issue that Etta would seek shelter with Barbara. Gonna be interesting to see that interaction, and I really want to see Etta's thoughts on the whole Cheetah business.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2527887]I don't honestly get why they asked him to do so when writers are perfectly capable of writing stories without it. And with the way it was constructed here, the only story it really helps is Rucka's own, presuming the lone thing of change (the tree) comes back again.
And if it was just for the style-guides sake they could just have pointed and Earth One and gone: it's pretty much that... only Trevor is white and Diana didn't grab him by the nuts.[/QUOTE]
I think the obsession with continuity has a lot to do with it. It happened for the same reason why Rebirth needs a justification for the new 52 mistakes. But I prefer that than pointing Earth One (an elseworld story) as the oficial origin. So many problems going on with that book.
I think once Rucka is done with his 24 issues plan we'll have a clean canvas (or at least something close to it) and a solid world and character building. If it accomplishes its task to turn Wonder Woman's world into a cohesive unity, I'll be more than fine with it.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2527887]I don't honestly get why they asked him to do so when writers are perfectly capable of writing stories without it. And with the way it was constructed here, the only story it really helps is Rucka's own, presuming the lone thing of change (the tree) comes back again.
And if it was just for the style-guides sake they could just have pointed and Earth One and gone: it's pretty much that... only Trevor is white and Diana didn't grab him by the nuts.[/QUOTE]
Azzarello never gave us a proper back-story/Year One for Diana in the New 52 plus there was so much inconsistency with her portrayal both in his run and the other books she appeared in. I think DC wanted Rucka to make it clear what Diana is about and what her world looks like beyond the Olympians.
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[QUOTE=Dr. Poison;2528020]Azzarello never gave us a proper back-story/Year One for Diana in the New 52 plus there was so much inconsistency with her portrayal both in his run and the other books she appeared in. I think DC wanted Rucka to make it clear what Diana is about and what her world looks like beyond the Olympians.[/QUOTE]
Heaven knows we've heard enough from various readers around the web....
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[QUOTE=Rig;2527742]Constantine put a spell on her to stop her from waking up, she wasn't in coma because of ten nukes exploding in her face. In in Injustice universe Wonder Woman isn't weak against phallic shaped objects.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Rig! I missed the Constantine detail. Did he cause her to be knocked out by the nuke and fall? Or just prevent her from waking up?
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[QUOTE=Joao;2527997]I think the obsession with continuity has a lot to do with it. It happened for the same reason why Rebirth needs a justification for the new 52 mistakes. But I prefer that than pointing Earth One (an elseworld story) as the oficial origin. So many problems going on with that book.
I think once Rucka is done with his 24 issues plan we'll have a clean canvas (or at least something close to it) and a solid world and character building. If it accomplishes its task to turn Wonder Woman's world into a cohesive unity, I'll be more than fine with it.[/QUOTE]
The problem with comics is that it will never be 'clean or cohesive' because everything is subject to change unlike real history. Rucka is changing things now and it will be as he leaves it... right up to the point another writer decides to throw it away for their own thing while the main bones of the story (Diana leaving) will remain.
And again, I ask, what is the point of telling an origins story that everyone already knows? And more to the point, why waste time and paper on it when it's the fewest writers thats going do anything with it? I mean, there is a reason why Batman and Superman don't waste huge amounts of time and space to retell how the Waynes died or how Krypton exploded every other year or so.
[QUOTE=Dr. Poison;2528020]Azzarello never gave us a proper back-story/Year One for Diana in the New 52 plus there was so much inconsistency with her portrayal both in his run and the other books she appeared in.
I think DC wanted Rucka to make it clear what Diana is about and what her world looks like beyond the Olympians.[/QUOTE]
He started the same way every other writer of the solo books featuring the members of the Justice League started: on the ground running.
The inconsistencies were not within Azzarello's story, if you stuck with that and ignored what everyone else was doing, it would be perfectly fine... the problem was that people like Johns and Soule had other ideas about who and how Diana was and reacted.
Well, he's kinda failed that with Year One by using a Diana at a stage in her life and career where she is very naive and by being very superficial with various support characters that's actually supposed to be really important. Like, in Year One, what is Trevor other than a guy Diana leans on and looses his shirt every 5th minute? Who is Etta Candy other than some random soldier? And so on.
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[QUOTE=Joao;2527863]DC asked Rucka to build a solid foundation where other writers could build upon further. I think doing Year One is an obvious, safe choice. But it's a shame that her origin was told so many times in the last months that the uniqueness of it was totally faded.[/QUOTE]
I agree with the sense of a glut of origin stories, but I think this one really has a leg up in terms of solidity of characterization, structuring of plot, and strength of pacing. Not flawless, but much more satisfying to me - and I think I've read them all at this point? At least the ones from the past few years.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2528275]And again, I ask, what is the point of telling an origins story that everyone already knows? And more to the point, why waste time and paper on it when it's the fewest writers thats going do anything with it? I mean, there is a reason why Batman and Superman don't waste huge amounts of time and space to retell how the Waynes died or how Krypton exploded every other year or so.[/QUOTE]
Well, we can agree on that. Now that I think about it, my favorite Wondie stories doesn't touch on her origin. And as long as I think it's beneficial that we had the classic amazons and cast back in Year One (since Wonder Woman was probably the most changed member of the Justice League in the n52), I hope we have a long period of time without stories like that after this saturation.
[QUOTE=Outside_85;2528275]Well, he's kinda failed that with Year One by using a Diana at a stage in her life and career where she is very naive and by being very superficial with various support characters that's actually supposed to be really important. Like, in Year One, what is Trevor other than a guy Diana leans on and looses his shirt every 5th minute? Who is Etta Candy other than some random soldier? And so on.[/QUOTE]
He did what he could IMO. Diana, Barbara and the amazons were the main points, and he developed them beautifully. We had tiny bits with Etta with the way she dresses and her easygoing, caring attitude (and a "you don't have to prove nothing to anyone" part that can be explored later on). Steve was more of a response to female sexualization than anything, and Ares could've used some love, but I don't think that overshadowed the good things.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2528275]And again, I ask, what is the point of telling an origins story that everyone already knows? And more to the point, why waste time and paper on it when it's the fewest writers thats going do anything with it? I[B] mean, there is a reason why Batman and Superman don't waste huge amounts of time and space to retell how the Waynes died or how Krypton exploded every other year or so.[/B][/QUOTE]
Except when they do. The Earth One line of books, Zero Year, Birthright and Secret Origin in short succession, and Morrison's retelling in Action Comics all happened when the characters needed it less than Wonder Woman. GL had one, Aquaman had details of his early years sprinkled throughout his New 52 reboot, Shazam got a brand new origin story, etc.
WW can't have a main canon origin story "every other year or so" when the last one was...in the 80s.
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[QUOTE=Joao;2528564]Well, we can agree on that. Now that I think about it, my favorite Wondie stories doesn't touch on her origin. And as long as I think it's beneficial that we had the classic amazons and cast back in Year One (since Wonder Woman was probably the most changed member of the Justice League in the n52), I hope we have a long period of time without stories like that after this saturation.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully... but unlikely if someone shows up post-Rucka with a 'better idea'.
[QUOTE]He did what he could IMO. Diana, Barbara and the amazons were the main points, and he developed them beautifully. We had tiny bits with Etta with the way she dresses and her easygoing, caring attitude (and a "you don't have to prove nothing to anyone" part that can be explored later on). Steve was more of a response to female sexualization than anything, and Ares could've used some love, but I don't think that overshadowed the good things.[/QUOTE]
And I think he could have done better if he had done like he did for Barbara and actually dedicate some time and space to actually develop them rather than invent reasons for Steve to loose his shirt.
[QUOTE=SiegePerilous02;2528633]Except when they do. The Earth One line of books, Zero Year, Birthright and Secret Origin in short succession, and Morrison's retelling in Action Comics all happened when the characters needed it less than Wonder Woman. GL had one, Aquaman had details of his early years sprinkled throughout his New 52 reboot, Shazam got a brand new origin story, etc.[/QUOTE]
Save for all of those Elseworld tales that also tends to do some tweaking one way or another that has no real influence on the main version of the character.
And what Morrison does is what Morrison does, no one really appears to control what that man does at the best of times. And in this case he wanted to retell Superman's 1940'ties adventures, not his real origins, with a 2011 twist and added some 5th dimensional magic.
Ok, when did GL have one? Because that was a series Johns continued writing with no change on any level despite Flashpoint happening. And Aquaman, as you say, is hints of his past spread through out his adventures today... not a trip into the past like Year One was.
And Shazam wasn't a league founder or has had a solo book yet, neither did Cyborg for years and he didn't need one since his origins was part of the League's own.
[QUOTE]WW can't have a main canon origin story "every other year or so" when the last one was...in the 80s.[/QUOTE]
Which was now tweaked, redrawn and reprinted in 2016 for the benifit of everyone who couldn't be bothered with tracking down the Perez collection.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2528707] Which was now tweaked, redrawn and reprinted in 2016 for the benifit of everyone who couldn't be bothered with tracking down the Perez collection.[/QUOTE]
Oh, it has been 30 years since [I]Gods and Mortals[/I] and it didn't age well like [I]Batman: Year One[/I]. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to go back there because it's dated: I don't do it as much as I'd like for the same reason. It was about time we got a retelling. The effect may not be clear right now among so many other versions of the same story, but this will certainly help DC establish that as her definitive origin in the long run.
Plus, the focus in Year One was not her birth, but her motivations for leaving the island. The stories complement each other in some ways.
[QUOTE=SiegePerilous02;2528633]Except when they do. The Earth One line of books, Zero Year, Birthright and Secret Origin in short succession, and Morrison's retelling in Action Comics all happened when the characters needed it less than Wonder Woman. GL had one, Aquaman had details of his early years sprinkled throughout his New 52 reboot, Shazam got a brand new origin story, etc. [/QUOTE]
Man, I'd love if someone could do to Diana the same Johns did with Aquaman in [I]The Others[/I]. It may not seem at first sight, but we know little about Diana's life in Themyscira. It would be great if someone could use flashbacks of things she did or learned in her early years to serve a contemporary story in our world. Not flashbacks of her origin - we got lots of that -, but of her actual life. It would be more interesting than having her visit the island all the time.
I personally think [I]The Legend of Wonder Woman[/I], while a coming of age story, did a good job in that regard. Diana at amazon school, that felt so fresh.
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The 2009 Animated film has probably been the definitive Wonder Woman origin story for some time now, not to mention we are getting a live-action film soon...
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[QUOTE=Pinsir;2529026]The 2009 Animated film has probably been the definitive Wonder Woman origin story for some time now, not to mention we are getting a live-action film soon...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, considering the "Zeus created the amazons" thing that we're getting in the movie, it doesn't surprise me Rucka (and DC Comics) didn't touch on that point for now. Maybe that will be the definitive origin depending on the movie performance.
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Dull issue that promised answers and gave out none. The ultimate battle was so quick and underwhelming that they had to tack on a terroist attack at the end that came from nowhere. I do wonder if the stuff at the UN was because of recent events however.
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[QUOTE=Outside_85;2528707]
Save for all of those Elseworld tales that also tends to do some tweaking one way or another that has no real influence on the main version of the character.
And what Morrison does is what Morrison does, no one really appears to control what that man does at the best of times. And in this case he wanted to retell Superman's 1940'ties adventures, not his real origins, with a 2011 twist and added some 5th dimensional magic.
Ok, when did GL have one? Because that was a series Johns continued writing with no change on any level despite Flashpoint happening. And Aquaman, as you say, is hints of his past spread through out his adventures today... not a trip into the past like Year One was.
And Shazam wasn't a league founder or has had a solo book yet, neither did Cyborg for years and he didn't need one since his origins was part of the League's own.[/QUOTE]
And neither do the Elseworld origin stories that WW has been getting lately.
What do you mean "his 1940s adventures, not his real origins"? What are the "real" origins? Because we got the flashbacks of Krypton exploding, the Kents finding him, early childhood moments, his first arrival in Metropolis, and his first encounters with his supporting cast and villains. Sounds like an origin tale to me. Especially as it was part of a line wide reboot, so Morrison doing what Morrison does is incidental. If he didn't do it, someone else would have.
GL: Secret Origin, well before Flashpoint, that retconned Atrocitus into Hal's origin and set up Blackest Night. A common complaint when that came out was that it replaced Emerald Dawn. And both are still available, just like this and Gods and Mortals will be available at the same time.
Shazam not being a League founder doesn't have much to do with anything (I never said he was?), he still got a new origin when they could have just re-printed his post-Crisis origin and told people to go read that for the basics.
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It's really as simple as the fact that the New 52 reboot did huge amounts of damage to WW's mythos and viability and we needed to take time to reestablish her true status and iconic storyline in-canon, with the mainline continuity, purging the stuff that doesn't work and reestablishing the stuff that does. That's truly all there is to it.
(And it's not just Azzarello's stuff either. It's also what came before with JMS's self-important half-baked reboot, along with what came after with the Finches' insanity.)
Lots of people like the New 52. Great, okay. But can you sort of empirically understand how the New 52 version of Wonder Woman does not make for an archetypal, accessible blueprint for the world's most famous superhero woman? That DC is going to have a hard time putting Amazon rapists in films and TV shows and characters like Zola, Hera, Orion, and Lennox (who's dead anyway) on lunchboxes and school binders? That folks like Steve Trevor and Etta Candy are inherently more representative of Wonder Woman's history and it's therefore kind of important to reestablish their relationship with her? That they're not going to point to a run of comics that [b]specifically and intentionally decimates most of Wonder Woman's iconic storylines[/b] and say, "Look, here it is, the most iconic Wonder Woman story! Build off this, my hardworking employees~"
(And oh yeah she was Superman's girlfriend too. Joy.)
It needed a hard disk reboot. It needed a restoration of WW's more enduring, accessible characteristics, but it couldn't just go back to the exact way things were before the New 52, either; after all, that worldstate was [i]also[/i] kind of confusing and nonviable (thanks, JMS :p). Lest we forget, Year One doesn't just paint over the New 52, it rejiggers almost the entirety of post-Crisis stuff as well, paring everything down to the most basic building blocks and trying to fix all the elements that were bogging the character down before. It's a needed fresh slate...in all respects, a true Rebirth, not just slapping on that branding for the heck of it.