I don't know I heard they wanted to keep her whole history true. So depending on who they got could have worked
No clue, it’s just what I heard.
I find that very doubtful honestly. DC has wanted Diana to be the Daughter of Zeus for a while now, and they felt so strongly about it that it was the one thing they didn’t let Rucka touch while allowing him free reign otherwise. Bringing back her whole history would mean the exact opposite of that, keeping the clay origin for example. It’s far more likely in my mind that they planned on giving the book to someone like Lobdell who would just write what editorial wanted him too.
Why does she need a god as a father to understand her as a character?
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
It's really not that inconsistent though. Rucka and Wilson are choosing not to focus on the Zeus parentage, but they never outright say he isn't her father. And not all of Zeus's demigod children got super strength like Heracles, so Diana being otherwise unremarkable as a demigod and getting her divine powers form another source isn't a contradiction. It's not like there has ever been any logic in how Zeus passes down his genetics anyway.
Aphrodite doesn't behave like a sibling, but she didn't really in the Azz run either (cuz she was basically a prop). I don't think the Greek gods made much of a habit of acting chummy towards their half mortal siblings so it might be OOC for an Olympian to do so, and I honestly don't think Wilson or much of the fanbase are interested in the subject being broached because it inevitably leads back to Daddy, and that's not what we're here for.
I'd say continuity in Rebirth, for better or sometimes worse, has been pretty consistent throughout the various changing of hands. I would prefer a "everything happened" sort of continuity, but with Diana's history being even more chaotic than Superman's (from her various mini-revamps during pre-Crisis to Perez to Azzarello) makes that nearly impossible. None of it is going to mesh well.
Yep. Perez and Jimenez, for all that I knock some of the things the former did, were really good at writing the Amazons as layered and distinct with reasons for what they did, and not be perfect. Marston may have wrote them as his perfect borderline Mary Sues, sometimes perhaps when he shouldn't, but at least they were weird, different and fun. Azz's Amazons are one note cartoon characters.
I cannot fathom anyone seeing the message the classic Amazons send as being something toxic and viewing the New 52 one as an improvement. It uses tropes that were cliches in the time of the original myths!
Maybe “strong-arming” is too harsh a word, basically it’s what you said. It’s just that what DC “wanted” to do was so bad it convinced Azz to send in an alternate pitch instead, or at least that was what I remembered reading at one point. Been a while since I read the interview where it was stated, I’ll have to track it down at some point because I remember a lot of other interesting background on the Azz WW run.
azz didn't even know WW as a character, and never showed interest in her clasic elements. Since he felt the need to change them all in his run. So why would he want to "save" her character, when he didn't even know what her character is about and didn't care in the first place? DC has made her a villain, has made her the secretary of the jl, took away her powers, etc. What else could they do to her that they haven't done already? Maybe a combination of the 3? A powerless secretary of the Injustice League?
I recall these statements as well. Azz said what they were planning to do would "destroy her."
I would really like to know what elicited that reaction, because at best Diana in his run managed to be well written in some instances in spite of his changes, not because of them.
Azz also said she was boring. So I question if he didn't care. I wonder if there would have been another way to have rebooted her.