rokket opened this issue on Aug 05, 2014 · 85 posts
Cage posted Tue, 05 August 2014 at 10:34 AM
DC has had a tough time with Wonder Woman, over a span of decades. She always remains in the DC Big Three, in spite of only having short periods when her books sell well. She has been revised perhaps more often than any major comics hero. Her original incarnation, like her creator, was an odd mix of elements. A lot of what she has been is unpalatable to a modern audience. William Moulton Marston, for instance, insisted that the prevalent bondage themes in the first several years of WW stories were essential to the character, allowing the escape from captivity to serve as a theme of female empowerment. Nowadays, that just looks kinky or offensive to many people. Her costuming is apparently increasingly problematic, too, along with... pretty much all female superhero costuming. There's a push in some sectors of fandom for costume redesigns which desexualize the female characters, with the traditional form-fitting superhero costumes seen as exploitive and offensive. DC has to try to balance all of this to sell WW, as well as work with that weird mainstream/Hollywood take on superheroes which seeks to sell them by making them less like superheroes and as much like any other action hero genre as possible. As a fan of superheroes in their traditional (Golden Age through Bronze Age) form, I find all of it troubling. I keep getting myself into trouble on other forums, when I get worked up about it. :lol:
Basically, they don't know what to do with the character and they feel she under-performs compared to Batman, Superman, and others. They have to try to avoid any "Hubba hubba!" appeal in a modern version, and they have to sell the character to an audience that doesn't really like superheroes per se. I am sort of surprised that they've retained any hints of the traditional Wonder Woman at all, in the images I've seen.
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
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