1) They mostly trusted me, but WW is a trinity book that had a movie in development. I got away with a LOT. There were a few notes that kept coming back--they wanted more guys in the book, which is pretty common for WW, and they wanted more stories on the island. Not bad, really.
2) Not really, but I wanted to use Rucka's gods and was not allowed to for reasons I don't know.
3) I think making WW 100s of years old is a terrible idea. It takes away so much of her sense of wonder and discovery. I always think she is the age she looks, late twenties.
4) Last last last resort. Wonder Woman could and would kill if there was zero possibility of another solution.
5) It's probably Circe but I do like the adjustments Rucka made to Cheetah.
I loved the moment with Diana giving up the lasso for Donna. It was so sweet and with how little we see them interact (overall, not in this run) that was great. I loved how much you used Donna.
First, thank you, The Circle is probably my favorite superhero story I have ever written. I feel it's unlike any other WW story. It's also a story that weirdly, I get asked to talk about at colleges to this day.
And I am indeed the one who asked for a Wonder Woman forum. The DC COMICS general forum was fine, but I was getting guests and interviews and art previews and such, and with the volume of threads
there, sometimes a really cool thing would be down the page before people even got to see it. Jonah was not convinced it would have enough traffic but for a long time, it was REALLY busy, and I am thrilled
to see it's still busy!
That was a blast!
And I always say comics at the big two is a bunch of kids sitting at a round table, with a pile of crayons in the middle. Sometimes, you want purple, but some other kid grabbed it, and sometimes, you're left with colors you don't want at all. It's really part of your job to make the best of the crayons you get, and sometimes, you have to throw a fit to get Forest Green, you know?
But I have never complained about it, really. It's a joy and a thrill to get to write these characters. Only a handful do in any given year. I don't care for it when writers just ignore everything that went before. I'd rather work with it and try to make it as cool as I can.
Congrats on being part of Uncanny X-Men 700 by the way. If you don’t mind this shifting towards a more general questions for you with regards to Wonder Woman, I had two more questions:
1. Should Themyscaria be a place Diana can go to and fro after leaving, or do you think it has to be a place that’s extremely difficult/nigh on impossible for her to return to once she leaves? The problem writers keep seeming to have with it when it’s easy to reach is that either you play it straight and it’s utopia, which begs the question of why they’re not doing more to help the world, or the Amazons get turned into red shirts and slaughtered. Themyscaria being walled off does address those issues - it doesn’t help because it can’t and writers can’t use the Amazons as fodder - but we do lose out on a unique/cool setting. What’s your take?
2. Do you have any feelings regarding Wonder Woman being a legacy mantle that Diana inherits from Hippolyta, or do you think she should be the first Wonder Woman?
Apologies if I’ve strayed too far from the thread’s purpose but we rarely get the chance to ask a WW writer their feelings on the franchise so I thought I’d take a chance. Glad to hear your stories are selling, God knows we need more omnibuses from DC that aren’t Batman.
For when my rants on the forums just aren’t enough: https://thevindicativevordan.tumblr.com/
Yeah, I was really happy to see him on the Conan crossover when I picked that.
I enjoyed your BC and Powergirl crossovers you did with WW, are there any other DC heroines you'd have wanted to pair WW off with? Big Barda's an obvious one but I've always thought Zatanna works great for teaming up with Diana if DC wanted to copy the "World's Finest" gimmick for WW.
Wow, Gail! You truly are a WW in your own right to have remained focused and undeterred no matter what was thrown your way!
The crayon metaphor triggers a question in my head about the Genocide arc. There is a moment when the League shows up to engage the creature before Diana gets there. Was that Team's composition the Leaguers you had in mind initially? If not, what characters were off limits?
One of my absolute favorite stories you have ever written that isn't Sensei & Student was the Infinite Crisis Villains United special with the prison break where the book closes with the most epic mic drop I have ever read. At the time, I thought that dealing with that was going to be Diana's responsibility while Bats led the OMAC team and Supes led the Superboy Prime assault. When you were witing were you aware of what would follow? Did you have a 'next chapter' or conclusion in mind at the time of writing in case that task fell to you?
Thanks again for the Awesomeness!!!
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