Makeover for Wonder Woman at 69

[Blue_Tires]

Wednesday is a good day for Wonder Woman. This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new — and less revealing — costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly series.

The costume ties into an alternative history for the character devised by J. Michael Straczynski, the new writer of the series, and into a quest by DC to shine a critical and creative spotlight on the heroine, who stands with Superman and Batman in its primary triumvirate of superstars, despite her series’s modest sales.

In the reimagining of her story, Wonder Woman, instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters, is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants.

Mr. Straczynski, who created the television show “Babylon 5” and wrote the screenplay for “Changeling” in 2008, starring Angelina Jolie, said in an e-mail message that he wanted to address “the wardrobe issue” as soon as he took the job.

“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Mr. Straczynski wrote. “If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.”

He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”

Given Wonder Woman’s pre-eminence as a female character in the largely male superhero pantheon, her looks have always been a matter of more than casual interest, to both fanboys and feminists. In a 2006 interview about her work on the series, the novelist Jodi Picoult said: “One of the first things I did was ask if we could give her breast-reduction surgery, because as a woman, I know you wouldn’t fight crime in a bustier. But I was somehow shot down by DC.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/books/30wonder.html?_r=1

[LynneSin]

1. I always thought that Lynda Carter's ribcages were being crushed in that outfit

I mean how can you fight evil and serve justice when you're ribcage is so tightly crushed that you can't breath?

[jobycom]

2. Her ribcage was the only thing you found improbable?

Not the bracelets she could stop automatic weapons fire with, for instance? That took some good eyesight.

[WolverineDG]

13. That was part of her contract

Her boobs couldn't move or jiggle.

dg

[Maru Kitteh]

17. The word is breathe, not breath. You take a breath, you breathe freely. n/t

[jobycom]

3. I guess the flesh-colored crayon will no longer get so much use.

No, that was not meant to be a euphamism or clever pun.

[Mopar151]

4. World's strongest woman - Jill Mills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVv7oR8N4k

[Orsino]

5. She's had some work done. n/t

[Yavin4]

6. Reminds Me of a Dave Chappelle Joke

Hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2bD7Mpixl0

[applegrove]

7. They used to call me "wonder woman" in high school because I had built shoulders

like hers, a mop of brown curly hair and a square smile. I hated it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Doing some door-to-door activist work in D.C. sometime during the 80's...

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...a co-worker of mine found himself face-to-face with Lynda Carter. She
was dressed in sweats and a bandanna as though she were doing some Saturday
morning housework... and he said she was still literally breath-taking.
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He found it difficult to speak in entire sentences. :rofl:
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[MajorChode]

9. She's not holding up too well

[kentauros]

10. Normally, I really enjoy JMS' work,

though I've mostly only been exposed to it in Babylon 5 (I'm kind of looking forward to his version of Forbidden Planet, though.) I didn't know he wrote for comics, but it doesn't surprise me. And for the most part, I don't care about superhero comics (especially Marvel/DC) except for AC Comics' "Femforce" http://www.accomics.com

Stylistically, she now looks like pretty much all the rest of the superheroes that have been "re-invented" in the last decade. The art-style doesn't seem to change from comic to comic or even company to company. Now, I'd say she has a gothic-girl "witch" look to her. I don't mind change, but this looks idiotic. I'd like to see what was rejected...

And to add something counter to his addition, there was one woman that had the same outfit for more than 60 years. In fact, she had it for more than 2000 years: Jeannie :D

[Blue_Tires]

11. i agree that the new look seems a little 'off' as well

but i also agree that something had to be done to update it (some of the past updates weren't that bad; dunno why they weren't just kept)...

[NewJeffCT]

12. I'm fine with the idea of updating her costume

but, I'm not sure I like this new one. Weren't amazons supposed to go into battle topless?

However, I know topless wouldn't work in this day & age...

[WillParkinson]

14. Don't like it...

I don't mind a costume update, but this just looks...so non-functional.

[Odin2005]

15. Looks Goth-ish, I like it

[Iggo]

16. 69!