Grant Morrison on WW
From part one of Grant Morrison's "exit interview" on Final Crisis on Newsarama:
NRAMA: Regarding the big legends of the DCU: Superman got his mini-event, Batman took on Darkseid, Flash tries to outrun death, Green Lantern overcomes granny . . . but Wonder Woman turns out to be Anti-Life Patient Zero and spends the bulk of the series as a disfigured thrall. Why does Wonder Woman not have a comparable moment in that context?
GM: I wondered about that myself. I love what Gail Simone (especially) and other writers have done to empower the Wonder Woman concept but I must admit I’ve always sensed something slightly bogus and troubling at its heart. When I dug into the roots of the character I found an uneasy melange of girl power, bondage and disturbed sexuality that has never been adequately dealt with or fully processed out to my mind. I’ve always felt there was something oddly artificial about Wonder Woman, something not like a woman at all.
Having said that, I became quite fascinated by these contradictions and problems and tried to resolve them for what turned into a different project entirely. Partly because I didn’t want to use any of that new material in Final Crisis, I relegated Wonder Woman to a role that best summed up my original negative feelings about the character. My apologies to her fans and I promise to be a little more constructive next time around.
Wonder Woman gets a "moment" in Final Crisis #7 but by that time, Mandrakk has sucked all the life out of the story!
Excuse me? For a major earth-shattering event, you couldn't figure out what to do with your top tier superheroine? Nice of you to confirm what we've been assuming, but really. The Marston era lasted five years when Marston died in 1947. Have those early years shaped WW's history? God yes. Does it have to be the single defining thing about her? NO! If Final Crisis is about distilling these heroes down to their essence, what the hell are you saying about WW? That she should be consigned to the dusts of history? She has some wonderful qualities that have nothing to do with bondage or sexuality. She is supposed to be the strongest and gifted warrior in the damn DC Universe, save a few. But she's not allowed to be that because back in the Golden Age she was someone's fetish ideal? There's "she's unrelatable" and there this. *shakes head*
NRAMA: Regarding the big legends of the DCU: Superman got his mini-event, Batman took on Darkseid, Flash tries to outrun death, Green Lantern overcomes granny . . . but Wonder Woman turns out to be Anti-Life Patient Zero and spends the bulk of the series as a disfigured thrall. Why does Wonder Woman not have a comparable moment in that context?
GM: I wondered about that myself. I love what Gail Simone (especially) and other writers have done to empower the Wonder Woman concept but I must admit I’ve always sensed something slightly bogus and troubling at its heart. When I dug into the roots of the character I found an uneasy melange of girl power, bondage and disturbed sexuality that has never been adequately dealt with or fully processed out to my mind. I’ve always felt there was something oddly artificial about Wonder Woman, something not like a woman at all.
Having said that, I became quite fascinated by these contradictions and problems and tried to resolve them for what turned into a different project entirely. Partly because I didn’t want to use any of that new material in Final Crisis, I relegated Wonder Woman to a role that best summed up my original negative feelings about the character. My apologies to her fans and I promise to be a little more constructive next time around.
Wonder Woman gets a "moment" in Final Crisis #7 but by that time, Mandrakk has sucked all the life out of the story!
Excuse me? For a major earth-shattering event, you couldn't figure out what to do with your top tier superheroine? Nice of you to confirm what we've been assuming, but really. The Marston era lasted five years when Marston died in 1947. Have those early years shaped WW's history? God yes. Does it have to be the single defining thing about her? NO! If Final Crisis is about distilling these heroes down to their essence, what the hell are you saying about WW? That she should be consigned to the dusts of history? She has some wonderful qualities that have nothing to do with bondage or sexuality. She is supposed to be the strongest and gifted warrior in the damn DC Universe, save a few. But she's not allowed to be that because back in the Golden Age she was someone's fetish ideal? There's "she's unrelatable" and there this. *shakes head*