Comments on: Wonder Woman’s New Look: More Modesty is a Good Thing http://www.sweetpaul.com/wonder-womans-new-look-more-modesty-is-a-good-thing/ Movies, Video Games, Music and More Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Martin http://www.sweetpaul.com/wonder-womans-new-look-more-modesty-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Paul Martin Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:54:27 +0000 http://www.sweetpaul.com/?p=1180#comment-1852 While I do agree with you in some ways about the DC comics characters, if you compare modern Batman to original Batman, and modern Superman to original Superman you'll see that change has happened with those characters as well. And I'm not talking about Electric-Blue Superman or metallic Batman. Wonder Woman did change quite a bit as well. What I think should happen, really, is for a mix of the new costume and the old. I think the bottom part of her costume was awful, and really like that they have her in pants now. I do see the correlation with Marvel characters getting regular updates. Jubilee, for instance, doesn't look anything like when I was reading Generation X. However, I do think it's time for a proper change for Wonder Woman, though she is a mythological character. While I do agree with you in some ways about the DC comics characters, if you compare modern Batman to original Batman, and modern Superman to original Superman you’ll see that change has happened with those characters as well. And I’m not talking about Electric-Blue Superman or metallic Batman. Wonder Woman did change quite a bit as well. What I think should happen, really, is for a mix of the new costume and the old. I think the bottom part of her costume was awful, and really like that they have her in pants now. I do see the correlation with Marvel characters getting regular updates. Jubilee, for instance, doesn’t look anything like when I was reading Generation X. However, I do think it’s time for a proper change for Wonder Woman, though she is a mythological character.

]]> By: Okar http://www.sweetpaul.com/wonder-womans-new-look-more-modesty-is-a-good-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-1851 Okar Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:47:56 +0000 http://www.sweetpaul.com/?p=1180#comment-1851 I don't agree. This change is a very stupid idea. And i do not say that, because i'm the biggest WonderWoman fan, i think it's against the nature of her character, maybe even the nature of DC comics. The quality of DC and what makes the difference between DC's and Marvel's Superheroes is the iconic, mythological aspect of the Characters. While characters like "X-Men" need an update every ten years because otherwise their story, their motivation and the social topics whouldn't work and an "IronMan" whould look rediculous in his very first suit these days, Superman will always be Superman and WomderWoman will always be WonderWoman. She is a mythological character, an amazon, and it does not matter if her dress is modern or if she uses a cellphone in the stories. That is why every drastic change in the look of a DC Superhero in the last decades was reversed at some point and the original costumes always came back ( Superman had long hair once and blue-white costume another time, WonderWoman was changed several times, Batman was Replaced by another Man with some HighTech-Amor-suit, Green Lantern also was replaced by a new guy with new costume ect., but the original Versions always came back for good ) These Characters are the prototypes of every Superhero and they are timeless icons. By giving them leather-jackets or sunglasses DC may sell a few more copies for some time but it will not make the character better or more interesting. If i want to read something "fresh" i'll take an "Ultimates"-book or some independent title. When i read a DC book i want the "real thing". I don’t agree. This change is a very stupid idea. And i do not say that, because i’m the biggest WonderWoman fan, i think it’s against the nature of her character, maybe even the nature of DC comics. The quality of DC and what makes the difference between DC’s and Marvel’s Superheroes is the iconic, mythological aspect of the Characters. While characters like “X-Men” need an update every ten years because otherwise their story, their motivation and the social topics whouldn’t work and an “IronMan” whould look rediculous in his very first suit these days, Superman will always be Superman and WomderWoman will always be WonderWoman. She is a mythological character, an amazon, and it does not matter if her dress is modern or if she uses a cellphone in the stories.
That is why every drastic change in the look of a DC Superhero in the last decades was reversed at some point and the original costumes always came back ( Superman had long hair once and blue-white costume another time, WonderWoman was changed several times, Batman was Replaced by another Man with some HighTech-Amor-suit, Green Lantern also was replaced by a new guy with new costume ect., but the original Versions always came back for good )

These Characters are the prototypes of every Superhero and they are timeless icons. By giving them leather-jackets or sunglasses DC may sell a few more copies for some time but it will not make the character better or more interesting. If i want to read something “fresh” i’ll take an “Ultimates”-book or some independent title. When i read a DC book i want the “real thing”.

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