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Wow, remember when you had to throw up whenever Rucka or Simone did that "warrior wisdom, compassion, understanding and initiate peace talks during a fight skit" ? At least in this version she's like a rabid pitbull with an itch she can't reach. If she had big pecs, sideburns and chomped a cigar, she would be perfect !!! She's still a bit light on the shooting people in the face with a bazooka while standing on their chest type action, but I guess you can't have it all. Maybe the next writer will continue to deconstruct her into that violent, dark and gritty character grounded in reality we simply cannot get enough of.

Not so much the pants as the whole costume was kinda "meh", especially that 90's jacket. I can picture the high level discussions about adding tons of pouches, massive shoulder pads and spikes, give her a huge perm and a couple of guns that wouldn't look out of place on a battleship.

I'll be honest and say that I did warm up a bit to that one since as I feel the new costume's silver doesn't quite have the same look as the classic gold.

But then if you wait long enough the classic elements will return, I'm sure they will and all the current ruckus will be like a blip on the radar.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/max-landis-has-a-wonder-627425

At least the guy is passionate about comic books, knows their history and is more interested in doing a great superhero story rather than wave meaningless words like "Dark and Gritty" and "Grounded in Reality" like they were divine commandments.

And he has enough cred that DC approached him to work for them. Here's what he pitched for a Superman story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWMc-EdDRY

WW's own book has been a placeholder since the start of the new 52. Seems DC gave priority to her appearance in JLA and hooking her up with Supes, while her own title reads like an elseworlds story.

Ah yes, the harsh reality of writing an interesting female character. Most people simply use the hopelessly ill defined "strong woman" trope which usually boils down to taking a stock male character, slap on some sexy boobs and then put in a few "femininy" touches like being protective or liking cute fluffy things etc ...

@lifeboy: It falls in the category of fan fiction. How copyright owners react to fan fiction depends widely. Some encourage it, others have more lawyers on speed-dial than God and will send you C&D letters every chance they get.

This link has some info, but as with all legal advice on the internet don't consider it gospel.

http://io9.com/5933976/are-fan-fiction-and-fan-art-legal

http://rainfall.tv/press/wonder-woman-september/

It's just a preview and for all I know this could end up being a stinker, but it still looks miles ahead of the last official attempt featuring the cheap Halloween outfit. This WW looks like she could actually hurt somebody, rather than worry about her action figure looking too sexy ...

I'd rather have interesting female characters. Strong is such a limited concept and Zola is nothing more than the "mother who will do anything for her child to the point of stubborn stupidity" stock character. She doesn't have any real backstory other than that she was boned by Zeus and everybody wants to kill the baby, we don't know what she wants, what she likes or hates, she just is pushed by events and is allowed to show her "strength" by very foolishly defying anyone who would try to kill her baby. Zola is just a plot hook on which Azz can rely to show WW's feminine side, ie the nurturing aspect ...

Whenever somebody mentions a strong woman, we get either a tomboy waif who can knock out a guy three times her size without so much as a scuff on her knuckles or some hard-hearted professional "bitch"

But then again it's much easier to write a story about WW tackling some world-destroying monster than an interesting story about how WW has to work in a Hamburger joint to make a living.

Also see this :

http://iwantwhatheswearing.tumblr.com/post/51725909738/screw-writing-strong-women-write-interesting

I wonder if they are redoing him in view of a future film ...

Here's my theory of life in the universe.

First of all a large part is uninhabited because conditions are just too extreme for life to hang around long enough, be it gamma rays, overly active stars, supernovas, some deficiency in the planet, too many extinction level events etc.

Next are the planets where conditions are harsh, but there is some life, mostly very simple creatures that are very tough and resilient, but they are too busy merely surviving and there are too few opportunities for natural selection to create enough variation.

Next are the planets that have easier conditions and more variation, but it's still mostly pond snot, algae, fungi, plants, trees, worms, dinosaurs, bugs, ponies etc

And then you get to creatures that are quite intelligent and advanced, but are the "wrong kind" of intelligence like chimps, dolphins, elbonians ... In the whole history of our planet only a single species created technology you would notice on another planet. And then there is the extinction problem, imagine you have the right planet, the right intelligent species and they reach a technology level similar to the late 19th century, radio technology is only a few years away and then there is an extinction event ... the universe is so big it probably happened several times ...

It could be that life is very common, but proper intelligent life is rare and even if there are many intelligent aliens out there we might notice it could be that we are "in between" signals, that the various alien races that we might pick up are either too far or stopped emitting for one reason or another, we could be stuck in radio silence for quite a while.

The often mentioned Von Neuman probes might have passed by earth when Homo Erectus barely discovered how to make pointy sticks.

And maybe when we finally get a signal it turns out they are so radically different from us we might not be able to carry the most basic of conversations.