Hey Gail, cool of you to show up here. Hope the X-Fans don’t drive you off and that you’re having fun doing whatever it is you’re doing for Marvel which definitely isn’t X-Men lol.
1. How heavy was the editorial interference of the era? You don’t have to name names (although I suspect everyone you worked under at DC is gone thanks to the recent Bloodbath), but was WW a book that came with a ton of editorial demands, or was it one of those books where nobody in power cared, so they just went “we gotta put a book out, give it to Simone she can do whatever.”?
2. Any Wondy villains you wanted to get to but weren’t able to?
3. This is more of a general Wondy question but how old do you think Diana is? Is she 1000s of years old, or did Hippolyta have her around the same time Clark and Bruce were born? Do you prefer her debuting in the modern day or showing up in WW1/2 and disappearing again before resuming heroics in the modern age?
4. You made your feelings regarding Diana’s attitude to lethal force clear with that great Amazon quote about “don’t raise a hand before you’ve extended it”, but does *your* Diana have a hard rule against killing or is it more “only as a last resort”?
5. Who’s Diana’s archnemesis in your opinion? Who is her greatest villain, the one you see standing above the rest like Lex and Joker? It’s traditionally been Cheetah but Circe is my personal fave for that role.
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I haven’t read the full run cover to cover but I like the team-ups with Powergirl and Black Canary. They were fun. I feel like Wonder Woman almost never get to team up with non-Wonder Girl superheroes (and even then that has been few and far between until as of late). And the Justice League feels like it doesn’t count because it’s just her half the time and the other half it’s her and one other woman sooo.
Also the artwork was always top notch.
~I just keep swimming through these threads~
I haven’t read the run since the original publication. A lot of it has faded into the mists. LOL That’s not a reflection of the work, but I find now that I’m…of a certain age I don’t remember the specifics of comic runs like I used to.
I will say with my chest, though, that The Circle was a terrific opening arc.
ETA: Oh, and Ms. Simone, aren’t you the one responsible for WW getting her own forum on this site?
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“You see…the rest of them are soldiers. But [Wonder Woman] is an artist.”
I only support the made of clay origin.
It is oh so sad her run was riddled with the DiDidiocy's BS. That Amazons Attack and Granny effin Goodness defeats Olympus shite is unforgivable. I guess she gets kudos for trying to take the high road and acknowledge that giant poo poo platter, but it definitely hampered the run a bit.
My favorite element of her run was the 5 Questions With series of interviews with vatious creators on WW
I enjoyed that 5 Questions series as well. Especially the ones with Dan Mishkin and Martin Pasko because Bronze Age WW doesn't get talked about much. DC acknowledges the Golden Age, the mod Diana Prince era and then skips straight to Perez.
Have you all seen the announcement for the new reprint line - DC Finest - that's supposed to launch in November? Apparently, it's supposed to be DC's version of Marvel's Epic series. The first WW volume is supposed to the Gail's run.
Thank you! One thing that has happened a LOT, and I want to be clear that I don't blame them at all, but I find that guy writers seem to worry a LOT about making
Diana anything but a perfect flawless character. A few make her the opposite, sort of a terrible person inside and out, which is another problem entirely. But most seem
to worry about feedback if they show Diana as more human, more flawed.
Even some of the best writers seem to make her an ice queen, because making her make mistakes and have less-than-noble emotions at times is going to get some
pushback from some fans.
I have found, to some degree, that female writers seem to inherently embrace her being more human and more flawed. I think we feel we have more license to do that
than guy writers. I'm not saying it's fair, but it does seem to be the pattern. There are exceptions in both directions. Sometimes you can see that a writer, whatever their
gender, just plain doesn't like Diana and it shows.
For me, I love her, but I never wanted her to be cold. As I said often, Amazon blood runs hot. I like a Wonder Woman who is compassionate always, but is perfectly capable
of surrendering to fury if necessary.