Gail Simone, you rock
Gail Simone is the new writer of Wonder Woman. Good on 'er! I loved this exchange between her and a Newsarama reporter while discussing the announcement:
NRAMA: [D]oes Wonder Woman still "work" in today's world? She comes form a matriarchal single-sex theocracy that preaches peace, yet are the planet's fiercest warriors, despite a lack of an ever-present enemy... [I]f someone claiming to be from a world like that showed up in our..."man’s" world, she'd end up marginalized, not warmly accepted and certainly not seen as having much of value to offer... Or would she?
GS: Eh, bleah, that just isn’t what this book is going to be at all, to be frank. Look. It’s simple, and it’s never outdated. The book is about the best goddamned warrior planet Earth has ever known, and she happens to carry a mystical arsenal around just for the hell of it. If a writer can’t make that interesting and fun, they really shouldn’t be writing superheroes.
TEE-HEE!!
That said, I've never "gotten" Wonder Woman myself. She doesn't appeal to me at all as a woman. I relate much more to Power Girl.
NRAMA: [D]oes Wonder Woman still "work" in today's world? She comes form a matriarchal single-sex theocracy that preaches peace, yet are the planet's fiercest warriors, despite a lack of an ever-present enemy... [I]f someone claiming to be from a world like that showed up in our..."man’s" world, she'd end up marginalized, not warmly accepted and certainly not seen as having much of value to offer... Or would she?
GS: Eh, bleah, that just isn’t what this book is going to be at all, to be frank. Look. It’s simple, and it’s never outdated. The book is about the best goddamned warrior planet Earth has ever known, and she happens to carry a mystical arsenal around just for the hell of it. If a writer can’t make that interesting and fun, they really shouldn’t be writing superheroes.
TEE-HEE!!
That said, I've never "gotten" Wonder Woman myself. She doesn't appeal to me at all as a woman. I relate much more to Power Girl.