Wednesday 1 September 2010

Everything New Is Old Again

So when Jim Lee was asked to design a Wonder Woman costume some time back, he came up with this:


which was greeted with pretty much universal dismay, wailing, gnashing of teeth, promises to drop the Wonder Woman book and other assorted reactions that you'd expect from the internet. It was a bold, new, re-imagined look, "a look designed to be taken seriously as a warrior, in partial answer to the many female fans over the years who’ve asked, “how does she fight in that thing without all her parts falling out?”" (quote from the DC Source blog article)

So when Jim Lee was asked to design a Wonder Woman costume for the forthcoming DCU Online game, he came up with this:


I mean, come on, how can anyone "be taken seriously as a warrior" in that get up? How on Earth-1 can she "fight in that thing without all her parts falling out?"

Is consistency of message too much to ask for these days?

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