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EPIC IMAGES OF
WONDER WOMAN
DC Comics has relaunched Wonder Woman with issue #1 in September 2011.
In the relaunch, Wonder Woman has acquired a new origin story, she is now the daughter of
both Hippolyta and Zeus.
According to Mary Sue, Wonder Woman’s origin story is one of the most bizarre in comics books. She’s not an alien, she didn’t get bit by a spider – her mom made her
out of clay (with a little help from a goddess).
Originally, Diana was just the best of the Amazons, blessed by Aphrodite, but eventually her origin story was tweaked to include the fact that her mother Hippolyta,
desperate for a child on an island with no men, molded a daughter out of clay which Athena then made, ”beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Hermes, and stronger than Hercules.”
It’s an origin many found odd and that non-comic readers had a tough time wrapping their heads around and one DC decided to finally do away with via their relaunch.
”Wonder Woman will learn she’s not who she was told she was,” Azzarello told the NY Post. ”Everybody’s got a father,” he said. “Even if he’s not the nicest guy in the world.”
So now, instead of being created with the help of the gods, Wonder Woman will have been created by the gods. ”In this case, making her a god actually makes her more human, more relatable,” said
DC co-publisher Jim Lee. ”We’re approaching all the classic characters in a way that feels true to their origins but thoroughly modern.”
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NBC rejects 'Wonder Woman'
When asked why there was no Wonder Woman movie Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly said,
“It’s just much easier to sell a male action film to studios than a female one.”
When the only audience they think of is men, that may be true, but “Women want to see
characters that are strong and smart and capable. They don’t want to see characters
that are cliches or bastardizations or characters that are seen through the lens
of male writers and creators who don’t write authentic women but as archetypes
and a mindfield of sexist tropes.”
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