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Reply Subj: Re: New look for Wonder Woman and a new actor for Spider-Man Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 02:58:15 pm EDT (Viewed 377 times) | |||||||
... But in case you're still interested, here's my thoughts from my own blog: There are two J. Michael Straczynskis. One did a great job of writing Aunt May and the Spider-Marriage, and the other produces pablum like the Amazing Spider-Man 9/11 issue, Superman getting blamed for not curing the cancer of random civilians and Wonder Woman getting the "One More Day" treatment, complete with a costume redesign that JMS himself admits was inspired by the worst stylistic excesses of the 1990s. Look, folks, here's the deal; at this point, for better or for worse, anyone who seriously thinks that they're going to significantly alter the outfits of Wonder Woman, Superman or Batman for longer than a few issues is simply fooling themselves. Of all of them, Batman's "long term" look has been the most flexible, and even with that, we're talking about minor window-dressing details like adding or subtracting underwear on the outside of the costume and/or the yellow oval around the bat insignia on his chest. And as much as people piss and moan about how the FANS are responsible for undoing such changes, it's actually the NON-FANS who object the loudest to them, and do the most to get them undone. An ironic case in point: Remember when Wonder Woman lost her star-spangled costume entirely, and traded it in for a then-contemporary outfit straight out of The Mod Squad? By all accounts, Denny O'Neil did this with the best of intentions, to try and give women who wanted to be empowered a superheroine with whom they could more closely identify, and yet, you know who complained the loudest about it? GLORIA STEINEM, who felt (and regardless of how any of y'all feel about her politics, you should be able to agree with her on this) that it removed the SUPER from her superhero identity. Poor Denny O'Neil ... he gets Diana out of the "bathing suit" and into a less exposed outfit as this grand feminist gesture, and one of the founders of the feminist movement actually devoted an entire editorial in Ms. Magazine to saying how much she hated it. Plus, this Jim Lee redesign is, like just about all of his other recent costume redesigns, complete crap. Diana looks like she's about to go clubbing with Snookie and The Situation in that too-short-to-be-functional jacket, so if the aim was to give her a look that we would take "more seriously" than the "bathing suit," then, yeah, Massive Fail. Oh, and HAHAHAHAHA WINS FOREVER: JMS says: Another guy, on a podcast, said the idea of Wonder Woman at a club or acting cool literally creeped him out because Wonder Woman was like his grandmother, and he didn't want his grandmother doing that sort of thing. When people start to see your character as a grandmother, or a prude, or inflexible...something's profoundly wrong. And all I can hear is [Kirk] getting an erection. This will now become commissioned fanart.  By the way, who the hell looks at the current state of superhero comics and says to themselves, "You know what there's not NEARLY ENOUGH of here? Is more CONFUSING RETCONS!" Next to "gratuitous rape," "confusing retcons" are pretty much the chief commercial export of DC and Marvel anymore. And if this is just because DC wants an outfit and an origin that can sell well to moviegoers, then a) Marvel's Thor movie certainly isn't shying away from the mythological to the degree that JMS is, and b) EVEN FUCKING FAN ARTISTS CAN CREATE A BETTER "REALISTIC" COSTUME THAN THIS SHIT. | |||||||
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