“Look, you can’t put the Superman #77s with the #200s. They haven’t even discovered Red Kryptonite yet. And you can’t put the #98s with the #300s, Lori Lemaris hasn’t even been introduced.” — Sam
“Where the hell are you from? Krypton?” — Edgar Frog
Even with Batman, I feel like they would drop the cop thing and pit him against the GCPD more if it weren't for Gordon and the Bat signal being so iconic
Oh yeah, you can see that he looks gutted when she tells him that - he doesn't WANT to be a cop, he just comes off that way because he's a buttoned-up dork. The last page is him basically telling Lois as much (also Diana riding off in a hippie van with a bunch of strangers is perfection):
I like “no sword, all lasso” and that she’s a rebel against the status quo commentary. He’s picking up on some aspects of Wonder Woman I’d really like to see explored in the DCU that we haven’t seen from the character in a while. Hopefully he can stick the landing doing that and integrating it with Steve and Etta, superhero action and adventure, romance, some soap operatics and supervillain shenanigans.
That round table interview was fun. Nice to hear all the creators enjoying working together and vibing on the work. Some good things could come from that and make things grander than any one person can do alone.
I’m optimistic. We’ll see what happens. ::crosses fingers::
Since a couple have commented on it, my perspective on who the trinity represent and should be:
Batman = soldier. His “war on crime” is legendary.
Superman = samaritan. AKA the “Boy Scout.” He’s the proverbial good guy who’s always going to help you out in a crisis. (HA!)
Wonder Woman = savior. She’s going to subvert unequal and inequitable parts of the status quo and support us saving us from ourselves.
They all have their paradigms that work in different ways.
Perhaps, but that doesn't really say anything about the actual quality of her stories in the first place. These stories aren't necessarily the best comics can offer (indeed such stories are likely to be found outside of the Big 2). I'd certainly call The Hiketeia a much better story than The Dark Knight Returns (Greg Rucka being a better person than Frank Miller is just icing).
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Considering Tom King is a bit of an edgelord, if he decides to use Doctor Poison, she might reach "wtf" levels of doing fucked up shit lol.
Yes, Superman as far as I've seen has his fans not being too hopeful about the character, and Batman fans don't agree over how gritty and how isolated he should be lol.
Spidey would also be included, and his fans are being tortured currently lol.
Perfect lol.
I agree with all of this, except the Wonder Women I fell in love with were equal parts Marston, Perez, Lynda Carter and the Bronze Age José Delbo version with the giant button earrings.
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You can say a lot of things about King's villains, but underpowered they are not.
Granted they receive criticism for being way overpowered (Riddler, Bane, Thomas Wayne Batman) but if we are trying to promote Diana's villains as epic badasses, having say Cheetah as an unstoppable savage juggernaut or Dr. Poison as a one person mass plague would be the way to do.
Hell this is the guy who revitalized Kite-Man and made him a big thing (Kite-Man Hell Yeah). If he does really go into a character's psychosis or mental state with his famous big dramatic lines like he has done for other characters it could lead them feeling pretty big.
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