Ninja4peace
Well-Known Member
Ok this seems like a good a place as any, I was listening to this comic pants podast. http://comicpants.com/?p=1370 and basically thought they made some points about why Wonder Woman is no where near as iconic (good) as Batman or Superman. And I thought there could be 6 things we could discuss.
1. Wonder woman's rogues gallery. Who is her Lex Luthor or Joker..who is the anti-wonder woman.
2. Wonder woman's supporting cast. There's no Robin, no alfred, no Jimmy olsen or Lois Lane.
3. Ideas for a Dark Knight Returns/Whatever happened to man of tommorow for Wonder woman.
4. Ideas for a Year One/Man of Steel. What are her defining events in her past, like Bruce's parents, maybe this could be a story of the death of a childhood friend.
3 and 4 would be easier to think about once we had 1 and 2. And 1 and 2 would be easier to think about once we had
5. What's Wonder Woman all about. should she be leader of armies or what? How should her values be different to batman/superman so that we stop seeing her as just a female superman? Comparing the trinity to Thor/Iron man/Cap ...what can we gain from having her as a female? I like the idea that batman was an orphan, superman was raised by country folk, wonder woman raised by a tribe.
and Finally
6. Who would you like to see writing Wonder Woman?
I think I'm right in saying Batman is athiest/agnostic, Superman is Christian(ish), and Wonder Woman believes (knows) all the Greek/Roman Gods.
Maybe the blur between wonder woman and superman comes, just because batman has no powers at all, (like a bigger distinction between atheism/theism than there is with monotheism/polytheism). But we don't need to go down that route for discussion.
I just don't want DC to get Joss Whedon to write a lesbian wonder woman, and exploit the Joedamn out of her.
1. Wonder woman's rogues gallery. Who is her Lex Luthor or Joker..who is the anti-wonder woman.
2. Wonder woman's supporting cast. There's no Robin, no alfred, no Jimmy olsen or Lois Lane.
3. Ideas for a Dark Knight Returns/Whatever happened to man of tommorow for Wonder woman.
4. Ideas for a Year One/Man of Steel. What are her defining events in her past, like Bruce's parents, maybe this could be a story of the death of a childhood friend.
3 and 4 would be easier to think about once we had 1 and 2. And 1 and 2 would be easier to think about once we had
5. What's Wonder Woman all about. should she be leader of armies or what? How should her values be different to batman/superman so that we stop seeing her as just a female superman? Comparing the trinity to Thor/Iron man/Cap ...what can we gain from having her as a female? I like the idea that batman was an orphan, superman was raised by country folk, wonder woman raised by a tribe.
and Finally
6. Who would you like to see writing Wonder Woman?
I think I'm right in saying Batman is athiest/agnostic, Superman is Christian(ish), and Wonder Woman believes (knows) all the Greek/Roman Gods.
Maybe the blur between wonder woman and superman comes, just because batman has no powers at all, (like a bigger distinction between atheism/theism than there is with monotheism/polytheism). But we don't need to go down that route for discussion.
I just don't want DC to get Joss Whedon to write a lesbian wonder woman, and exploit the Joedamn out of her.
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