What struck people (including moi) was the amount of bondage and s&m stuff here in the art (which AFAIK debuted a week or two ago). Still the art is gorgeous and you really can't deny that. Enter Morrison and this particular interview. Here's a snippet about the core thrust for WONDER WOMAN: EARTH ONE
Q: What can you tease about her story and your take on this iconic heroine?
A. She's very different, and I'm really focusing a lot more on the mother and daughter story in it between Hippolyta and Diana. I want it to be that kind of book, a story about women. I grew up with my own mother and sister in the house, and it was watching that and the way women can tear each other apart and lift each other up at the same time. I wanted to do a little bit of my own experience with those characters.
Diana's a lot more defiant in it and she's not sent to man's world — she runs away to it so there's a very different dynamic between her and Hippolyta, and the entire thing basically takes place around a trial.
I always felt one of the fundamentals of Wonder Woman in at least the last two decades is that she always seems to be on trial, and I don't mean that in a story sense. Everyone's always saying, "Why does nobody buy Wonder Woman? Why isn't she any good?" (Laughs) it seems like she's always on trial, so I thought if I literalized that and made the story basically the Amazons bringing her back home after her first adventure away and putting her on trial, it'd be different from anything else you might see. The Amazons have their own ways of doing things.
It's kind of asking Wonder Woman to justify herself, which I feel has almost been what the character's had to do for a long time.
A. She's very different, and I'm really focusing a lot more on the mother and daughter story in it between Hippolyta and Diana. I want it to be that kind of book, a story about women. I grew up with my own mother and sister in the house, and it was watching that and the way women can tear each other apart and lift each other up at the same time. I wanted to do a little bit of my own experience with those characters.
Diana's a lot more defiant in it and she's not sent to man's world — she runs away to it so there's a very different dynamic between her and Hippolyta, and the entire thing basically takes place around a trial.
I always felt one of the fundamentals of Wonder Woman in at least the last two decades is that she always seems to be on trial, and I don't mean that in a story sense. Everyone's always saying, "Why does nobody buy Wonder Woman? Why isn't she any good?" (Laughs) it seems like she's always on trial, so I thought if I literalized that and made the story basically the Amazons bringing her back home after her first adventure away and putting her on trial, it'd be different from anything else you might see. The Amazons have their own ways of doing things.
It's kind of asking Wonder Woman to justify herself, which I feel has almost been what the character's had to do for a long time.
Oh and if you've seen the old Wonder Woman books, you'll know for a fact that there's just so much bondage in this book. It's either Diana getting tied up or somebody in a page gets hogtied. Don't ask me why but that's how Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston rolled back in the day.
The art is gorgeous, I have utmost fate in Morrison, I can only say one thing: SOLD
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