Wonder Woman Gets A Makeover
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Wonder Woman is a highly recognizable character who doesn’t get the mainstream attention Superman and Batman do, I don’t know that this redesign will help, but it’s Jim Lee stuff so it can’t be bad:
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Significantly more pants than I’m used to her having on… but I like it. She looks like the kind of girl I’d fawn over in high school, then never talk to.
Jim Lee or not, I’d say it can be bad and it is. She’s gone all goth and dominatrix. This isn’t the first or the worst makeover she’s had, but I’m not in favor.
I like the basic idea – her “traditional” outfit was ludicrous and may well have been part of the problem in bringing her to the silver screen. (How many actresses want to spend large amounts of screen time in something like that?) Yes, it appealed to horny men, but that was about the extent of it.
Ah…burqah woman. Lovely. Not. the redress of the items she carries is nice but the costume is Gap all the way. What the hell was Lee thinking?
Come to think of it if you ditch the pants and add a skirt, with pleats, down to above her knees it’d work. Add sandals and ditch the dorky jacket.
The nature of this is temporary. JMS is doing a temporary “reboot” to pursue a certain storyline he’s interested in, and it sounds like a good one.
Some problems: the outfit is really a 90s-era Marvel-style outfit. This Wonder Woman Costume illustration contest from 2007 had a bunch of better ideas that would have made her traditional outfit much less embarrassing while also paying tribute to her origins.
Meghan Murphy’s gold and white costume is striking for not being red white and blue. I like it the most next to Timothy Lim’s and Daniel Krall’s is very nice (not modern at all).
Not iconic enough.
The tights should be blue, not black. If they are blue (extremely dark blue) lighten them up. And the top shouldn’t be a jacket. It should just be a form fitting top.
Other than that, I like it. I thought it ridiculous and childishly sexist to have this warrior woman go into battle in a bikini. This “woman always wears skimpy clothes” thing is especially prevalent in the DC Universe. Marvel seems to have gotten their act together on that front and it looks like DC is finally following suit. No pun intended.
I vaguely remember some wingnut or other bitching because she’s no longer bedecked in the Stars and Stripes.
Personally, I think superhero loyalties are suspect in general. I mean, wasn’t Superman a draft dodger?
I’m not familiar with the legal status of the Golden Age Superman with regards to the draft, but I’m sure he would have been granted a draft exemption as working in a critical war industry (public relations, and the odd special mission). Clark Kent of course would not have had such an exemption, but perhaps he got a very high draft number. Not everyone got drafted, you know.
As far as WW’s new look, I’m more concerned about the stories. The “90′s Marvel” look doesn’t bug me, and is certainly more practical. (Yes, less cheesecake, but I’ll live. There’s always Power Girl.) Clingy tights do tend to get ripped up and caught on things, though. And if there’s any female who doesn’t need shoulder pads to make up for weak shoulders, it’s Wonder Woman.
You guys know that that is a comic book character, right?
Merl, we’re fanboys. (Or in my case, an ex-fanboy.) We will argue over significant costume and character changes (e.g. “lightning bolt” Superman, Spider-Man’s black alien costume).
That said, the new WW can’t even remotely hold a candle to Dave Cockrum’s or John Byrne’s Storm, Stephen Hughes’ Lady Death, or just about anybody’s Mary Jane Watson-Parker.
The change won’t last long because DC is too scared. They panicked after the WW cartoon didn’t make a billion $ and pretty much wrecked any chance of a WW movie being made (which in a way may be a blessing since at the time fanboys wanted Megan Fox in the lead role). Even though Linda Carter likes it, if enough people complain, she’s be back in the armored bathing suit.
DC shouldn’t be scared, as Marvel will almost certainly be down the Disney shitter inside of five years.
I vaguely remember some wingnut or other bitching because she’s no longer bedecked in the Stars and Stripes.
Wingnuts will ALWAYS find one reason or another to bitch. They raised hell at “Saving Private Ryan” because the colors in the flapping flag weren’t bold enough, and because one character was dyslexic and another character stuttered.
I’m sure [Superman] would have been granted a draft exemption as working in a critical war industry (public relations, and the odd special mission).
Since he was impervious to bullets, why couldn’t he just walk in and assassinate Hitler? Oh wait, that would violate his sacred Kryptonian oath never to kill anyone, or something.
Came to object to the statement “but it’s Jim Lee stuff so it can’t be bad.” I bought a lot of WildCATS when I was too young to know better, and going back now, bad is the short version, pretty but entirely soulless is the long form. Lee is a smart, talented man, but he’s never been all that good at costume design or plot.
But yeah, please explain how Hush was good.
(Have nothing against the costume. The jacket’s a little 90s Avengers/JLA but it makes sense if she’s going for comfort/functionality over sex appeal.)
Clark Kent failed his draft physical because he read the eye chart in the next room with his X-ray vision, if I remember correctly. The current explanation in the DCU for the Golden Age heroes not taking out Hitler is some convoluted thing involving the Spear of Destiny. I need a life.