Wonder Girl Has Been Cancelled

[TimberWolf]

Joelle Jones' Wonder Girl has been cancelled. I thought the book was beautifully drawn but was a mess storywise. Thoughts?

[sifighter]

I'm disappointed, I thought Yara's story was fun and a good introduction via a great fantasy adventure. We are even only in her origin after all.

Hell it's even more upsetting because of the real life pandemic that caused Delays for this series. I hope she gets a new series after the Trial of Wonder Woman event.

[Gaius]

Saw this coming with all the delays.

Had to drop it myself because Yara just wasn't interesting enough to keep reading.

[SanityOrMadness]

Considering that the material drawn will reportedly be incorporated into Trial: Wonder Girl, I'm betting that this was due to the book running so late it threatened to derail the scheduling for all the books involved.

[phonogram12]

Jones' art was beautiful and the basic concept was great, too, but yeah, the main story dragged on and on and on. Plus - and I'm not gonna lie - Jones' artwork is the primary reason I pick up any of her books. I realize that she has a hard time keeping up a monthly schedule when she's also writing the book, but once she exits art chores, I exit picking up the book.

[Vordan]

Like Yara a lot of Joelle was never capable of writing and drawing an ongoing. Whoever in editorial approved the idea of her doing both was either uninformed or an idiot to put her on both duties. My guess is Yara will become Wonder Woman to line up with Jon and Jace being co-holders of their mantles, perhaps spinning out of Trial. If they relaunch Yara’s book they need to get someone else as co-writer, Joelle simply can’t keep up with the demands of a monthly on her own.

[LordUltimus]

I also thought Yara's TV show falling through had something to do with it.

[Goldrake]

Like Yara a lot of Joelle was never capable of writing and drawing an ongoing. Whoever in editorial approved the idea of her doing both was either uninformed or an idiot to put her on both duties. My guess is Yara will become Wonder Woman to line up with Jon and Jace being co-holders of their mantles, perhaps spinning out of Trial. If they relaunch Yara’s book they need to get someone else as co-writer, Joelle simply can’t keep up with the demands of a monthly on her own.

and that will also fail, That said, I agree on whoever approved at editorial level is to blame as well. But DC nowadays is run by incompetents.

[Frontier]

Like Yara a lot of Joelle was never capable of writing and drawing an ongoing. Whoever in editorial approved the idea of her doing both was either uninformed or an idiot to put her on both duties. My guess is Yara will become Wonder Woman to line up with Jon and Jace being co-holders of their mantles, perhaps spinning out of Trial. If they relaunch Yara’s book they need to get someone else as co-writer, Joelle simply can’t keep up with the demands of a monthly on her own.

I think Jones herself might have asked for it specifically and just not been able to keep up the workload. Wouldn't be the first time, looking at her Catwoman run.

The only reason I'm not sure about them giving her the Wonder Woman name is they're saying there will be more "Wonder Girl."

[HestiasHearth]

Joelle Jones' Wonder Girl has been cancelled. I thought the book was beautifully drawn but was a mess storywise. Thoughts?

I concur. A beautiful mess (but a mess nonetheless).

[Primal Slayer]

I hope they replace it with a new Wonder Girl title. WW-verse going backwards from all these books back down to 1 is not to my liking.

[Vordan]

I hope they replace it with a new Wonder Girl title. WW-verse going backwards from all these books back down to 1 is not to my liking.

If the other Wonderverse books don’t sell, then there’s not much DC can do. Yara had strong sales but the delays killed the book. Nubia hasn’t sold well at all from what I’ve seen. Personally I think they should make a “Wonderfamily” anthology book like Batman Urban Legends and put the WW side characters in that.

[HsssH]

Sometimes books aren't canceled due to sales. Sometimes it is because of the creative team. With Lady Killer picking up steam on Netflix, maybe Joelle decided to pursue a different route or discovered she didn't have the time to commit to WG like she had thought or any number of reasons that dont necessarily take sales into account.

This is interesting point. Wasn't aware at all that one of her works has been picked up for an adaptation.

If the other Wonderverse books don’t sell, then there’s not much DC can do. Yara had strong sales but the delays killed the book. Nubia hasn’t sold well at all from what I’ve seen. Personally I think they should make a “Wonderfamily” anthology book like Batman Urban Legends and put the WW side characters in that.

I doubt that it would sell. Urban Legends often features characters that had their own ongoings for years and someone like Red Hood would probably still have one if some creative team wanted to do it.

[Dr. Poison]

Joelle Jones' Wonder Girl has been cancelled. I thought the book was beautifully drawn but was a mess storywise. Thoughts?

I totally agree. Yara's design and the art were both pretty good but the story was bland and pushed me away after 2 installments.

[Digifiend]

https://twitter.com/RoliverQueen_/st...90509870096384

Looks like there’s more to the story about Wonder Girl being cancelled. Not surprised this went under people’s radar. I didn’t even find this thread until now…

I wonder this caused too much of a ruckus in editorial. BUT BUT like I said before POC folk were tellin y’all this

https://twitter.com/alice_pataxo/sta...04160616198145

Since the WW Br was announced, many people were excited about the idea, and we indigenous women wondered about what would come, and once again we were not wrong. Stereotypes, sexualization of indigenous bodies, disrespect for our beliefs and cultures, "blend" our identities.

They use our desires for representation and protagonism in the form of entertainment and cash machines and in the end, we do not see ourselves, because they know nothing about our people (who were not part of this construction), as they always appropriate our culture.

Yara Flor not only brings the stereotype but also the discussion of who will play, women who are quoted by the stereotype but have never lived our lives, they don't know our villages, they don't know what real heroines are.

"mix" our gods with the culture of others and we are forced to silence ourselves?! They disrespect the caipora, you can't think you're right about our gods, our beliefs, Yara does that in the HQ.

They demonized the figure and essence of a guardian of the forest, that's not right, they didn't do the least. I'm disappointed in this bigotry, we're not pop culture, don't make us entertainment-friendly, we are for real, with even more amazing real stories.

as I said to @munihin_ who is this Yara Flor near the Indian Krinça

I want to see real indigenous women, women who know our pain, who understand our resistance, memory, our belief. This is no mess, no leader or hero will ever be greater than our beliefs.

Yara Flor is nothing but the white ego talking. @DCComics