Wonder Boy, Wonder Boy! You're a Wonder, Wonder Boy!

Mar 27, 2009 09:59


Wonder Boy by ~superleezard on deviantART

I was watching the movie Wonder Boys (love that film) when the name Wonder Boy got stuck in my head. Sometimes I fixate on an idea and the only way to stop thinking about it is to draw it out. The whole time I was designing this I kept thinking that if Batman can have a Batgirl and Superman can have a Supergirl then surely Wonder Woman could have a Wonder Boy. This is the result.

I tried to make it masculine while retaining as many elements of the WW family as possible, such as the bracelets, the stars and of course the W. Although I did remove the second W (for Woman) and I figured it was a recognizable enough symbol to survive. Also, as I explained to a friend on DA, he's got the mask because 1) I love domino masks and b) in the backstory I've dreamt up for him he is only loosely affiliated with WW and crew, not officially sanctioned you know? So unlike the rest he's got a secret ID. And the jacket comes and goes depending on mood, weather, atomic blasts, etc.

Now obviously if this character existed in the DCU he'd get no end of shit. But in my head he's one of the most confident and self-assured characters around, he just couldn't care less what anyone thinks. Something about that really appeals to me, I wish I worked at DC so I could do something with this!
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