Superman and Wonder Woman: One Week Later

The cover of Justice League #12 drawn by Jim Lee

So it’s one week after and a dirt has staid a bit, so what are we holding divided from DC’s preference to span adult dual of a biggest names, Superman and Wonder Woman, in a regretful fashion?  Initial greeting from fans ranged from snub to enthusiasm, with all from discreet confidence to eye-rolling in between.  What’s bizarre is we still don’t know how we feel as a reader!  (To examination Scott West’s examination of JL #12 click here.)

There are pros and cons.  On a pro side, this is something new.  we suspicion Superman and Lois Lane had one of a best marriages in comics– if not the best.  They were truly equals that upheld and complimented one another.  But that said, being in a stable, happy matrimony doesn’t always make for intriguing storytelling.  In books, cinema and television, there’s a reason given many stories involving intrigue are about a routine of meeting, dating and descending in love.  There’s some bizarre poison that happens once characters stabilise as happy couples.  It’s happened on countless tv shows over a years.  That’s why, when characters are presented as happily married, they’re customarily surrounded by singular characters left-handed their approach by regretful escapades.  It’s a shame!  we adore a good happy, married couple.  we desired Lois and Clark, Ralph and Sue Dibny, Wash and Zoe… we adore The Thin Man movies.  we cruise married couples can be usually as engaging as singular people.  In fact, many singles are a prohibited mess… though maybe that’s where a seductiveness lies.

The cover to a arriving second copy of ‘Justice League’ #12, also by Jim Lee.

I cruise in a behind of a heads, we all know Lois Lane and Superman will eventually finish adult together, though there’s no need to rush toward that.  To be with Lois establishes a standing quo.  That could be a disastrous thing.  This is a new continuity.  Anything can happen.  we don’t intent to being kept on my toes.

DC’s has settled that partial of a logic behind a New 52 was to make their characters younger and sexier.  Once more, we can know that.  During a 70s and 80s, DC attested that Superman and many of a other heroes were an almighty 27 years old.  But over a years, that has been pushed back, partially due to a culture’s ever augmenting arrested development.  (I mean… we get paid to examination comic books.)  Clark Kent and Lois Lane were clearly no longer twentysomethings, with their organic matrimony and successful careers.  Once again, audiences seem some-more meddlesome in a beginnings and endings of relationships, not all in between.  And DC openly settled that they were anticipating to attract a younger audience, as a age of comic book readers is usually removing comparison and could, feasible eventually die out.

Another probable plus, is that conjunction of these dual are deliberate sexy.  When we interviewed artist Nicola Scott, she voiced that she didn’t cruise Superman sexy.  “Superman… is 6’4″, has black hair, blue eyes, doesn’t drink, doesn’t fume and tells a truth. Perfection! But…… deliver him to your mom and marry him.  The inlet of Clark’s celebrity doesn’t unequivocally move out a passionate fantasy. Or maybe it does. To any their own.”  I must acknowledge that even as a Wonder Woman superfan, that she is beautiful, graceful, majestic… though hot?  Not so much.  we cruise that’s given she’s regarded as fundamentally a black of super heroes and queens aren’t hot.  Kate Middleton isn’t hot.  She’s all those things we pronounced about Wonder Woman, though not hot.  Maybe DC wants to hint some-more disagreeable seductiveness in these dual rational characters.

Wonder Woman and Superman’s FIRST kiss, from ‘Action Comics’ #600 by John Byrne and George Perez.

Along those lines, Wonder Woman has been decidedly chaste for distant too long.  In a 80s, Steve Trevor was separated as a regretful seductiveness by creation him too aged for her and by him eventually marrying Etta Candy.  But honestly, even before that, Steve was kind of a boob.  Like Lois, he’d get himself into crazy predicaments, though distinct quick Lois, he’d usually chill and wait for Wonder Woman to save him.  He was always something of a goofus and there’s a reason he isn’t as widely famous as Lois and unequivocally not even that dear by Wonder Woman fans.

DC has ventured into this domain before.  After ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths,’ there was a identical relaunching of a company’s code and they toyed with a thought of Wonder Woman and Superman as a couple, though fast determined that they were improved off as friends.  But after that… nothing!  Wonder Woman’s subsequent poignant beloved was Trevor Barnes in 2001!  Well, there were a few “interests” though zero unequivocally estimable and zero that stuck.  Trevor Barnes was combined by writer/artist Phil Jiminez whose run on ‘Wonder Woman’ was somewhat injured by a bent to tell rather than show.  Diana enthusiastically voiced what a good male he was, though as readers, we never saw many of that in action.  There’s a reason he was killed off immediately after Jiminez left a book!

Also, I’m a organisation follower in waiting-and-seeing.  They’ve kissed all of once.  There’s no revelation where this new attribute will lead or how it will play out.  I’ll give a creators concerned a advantage of a doubt.

All that said, there’s still a tiny demon on my left shoulder giving me an icy glance that roughly translates to “Bitch please.”  The biggest dispute many Wonder Woman fans have is that this all seems to be an bid to strengthen Superman.  Good Morning America displayed a striking to a left where Wonder Woman isn’t even named, though refered to as Superman’s “New voluptuous sidekick.”  Wonder fans are righteously outraged.  Wonder Woman’s biggest strength is that she is Wonder Woman.  Not Superwoman, not Batwoman, not She-Hulk, not Miss Thing (although, aside, we am delighted that a impression by that name is coming), not a womanlike derivative of a masculine character.  She was combined whole as her possess stand-alone character, one of very, unequivocally few womanlike heroes to be such.  Even Black Canary debuted in Johnny Thunder’s frame and is widely famous as Green Arrow’s longtime girlfriend, him being a headliner, her being a member of a Justice League/supporting character.  Wonder Woman occupies a singular space in a star of super heroes… I’m desperately anticipating she doesn’t turn The Yoko of a Justice League.

Then DC expelled a picture to a right, inventory their Top Ten Super Power Couples and Superman and Wonder Woman are series one.  Seriously?  One lick creates them THE Super Couple?  Also, given is it “Super” Power Couples?  Okay, so Larfleeze and his Battery is cute.  And acclamation for including Apollo and Midnighter, a same-sex couple.  But seriously? Maybe if this was a New 52 list, though many of these couples don’t even exist in a New 52, so that scratches that defense.  Lois and Clark and Ralph and Sue merit discuss over…well, positively over one-kiss, no-date Superman and Wonder Woman!  (I’d remonstrate for Conner and Tim, though that’s a whole other article.)

My many disastrous greeting to this whole thing is that it all seems like it originated from a lowest common denominator.  They both have black hair, they’re both white, they both have super strength and they both wear red, yellow and blue costumes.  Because a tip to a successful attribute is tone coordination.  Beyond that?  Superman was lifted on a plantation in Kansas and is fundamentally your normal American male with good values.  Wonder Woman is a princess from a unfamiliar culture, lifted like a Shao Lin monk, to foster assent though whup donkey when a conditions calls for it.  Beyond a relating suits– and apparently a mutual feeling of isolation– what do they have in common?  The usually approach we can see this operative is in a retreat angel story way, with Princess Diana descending for common male Clark.  But, we all know that’s not how it’s going to happen.

This is a NEW 52.  Other than Green Lantern and Batman, roughly everyone’s story is scrapped for something different.  Sometimes it works, infrequently it doesn’t.  This is a new twist, that might work or might not.  At any rate, it’s got people talking, or in my box rambling.

What are your thoughts?  Comment below!

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• I cruise you’re downplaying Clark and Diana’s things in common, indeed, what does Oakie Clark Kent from tiny city Kansas, have in common with Army Brat and Metropolitan contributor Lois Lane, besides his day job?

  Whereas that was a attribute built on deception and during times dislike. Diana and Clark can be wholly open and honest from a get go. No secrets. The many critical thing, doing a right thing, is something they have in common.

  DC managed to settle they were good friends final star – unexpected a thought they adore any other is tough to buy given they are too different?

  All adore that has not loyalty for a base, is like a palace built on a sand.

• I’m usually somewhat meddlesome in this after reading a finish of a JLI annual. They usually don’t seem all that engaging as a couple.

• I cruise many fans tend to intone “Lois and Clark 4 ever” not indispensably given they know a reason for a pairing though given they’ve gotten so used to it. Superman and Wonder Woman is a whole new round game, sparkling and unpredictable. While change might be embraced by some, others will feel a opoosite.

  As for me, we am unequivocally many meddlesome to embark on this new tour with both heroes.

• I cruise we are over meditative it. Perhaps also resourceful about a media that chose to atmosphere a story. Not all media reported it that approach GMA sensationalized it like a report broom and they clearly did not investigate a history, many reduction even know what a new 52 was Perhaps we could check with CBS or a Guradian Uk or a Hindustan Times or MTV Geek. Just google Superman/Wonder Woman and media and we will see a some-more offset perspective of how a story went down. You also like Lois and Clark and that’s excellent though many readers have not common your enthusiam as seen in Superman’s flagging sales for a final decade. The matrimony was never even created as genuine given it never addressed a couples’ genuine problems. Lois was a acommodating mother who Superman fly behind to. They never addressed with any credit what it meant for a lady to be married to a male who had to be Superman…who could not have have children with an alien, had to face aging faster than him…,estranged from her family for him.who was constantly in danger…yes, go to a books and see Lois had to be discovered scarcely any few arcs or be in peril. She had to wait for him while he few off for a year/months during a time. And we were approaching to be trust it never worried her? That is not marriage. That was fantasy. You mentioned Nicola Scott pronounced Superman has no sex appeal. She is right on some level. we would contend he mislaid what he had. He was done into this tasteless one dimensional impression and some-more or reduction became a print child for conservatism. Superman’s creators dictated a active favourite and charismatic male for a people. Not a male usually for Lois. This new Clark/Kal-EL during slightest seems some-more layered, is unequivocally maudlin though with approach some-more passion and clever opinions and does not mount around preaching, though acts. He comes opposite as sexier too imo. In fact Henry Cavill’s Superman is going to be a unequivocally voluptuous and complicated one and they have pronounced he is some-more than expected going to have new 52 sensibility than your I’m usually a Kansas farmboy. It is revelation Zack Synder and ( Nolan )did not utterly get a Superman that we praise so many given in his mind he seemed “on his throne”. Which we feel is stereotyping. Where we are innate does not shorten who we are and what we can become. This is 2012. Not 1986. we feel a comment of Diana is a bit peculiar too and we am certain many creators themselves would remonstrate with you, who Diana is and what her motivations are. The new 52 is called new for a reason. It is about perplexing to re-tell stories and get them to ring with this generation. Make we trust that we are reading a immature Clark and Diana now. Not from 20 years ago. we cruise many people are unequivocally happy to burst on house as a same approach readers of novella and film goers are always happy to see aged stories retold in new and innovative ways. Snow White can tumble for a Huntsman. Abraham Lincon can slay vampires. A lady can be a Musketeer. Similarly Superman could tumble for Wonder Woman and they can quarrel behind to behind or assistance any other grow. The essay and a accepting of a essay is what will be pivotal here.lf this sells good afterwards we design we will see some-more of it a same approach DC milked Lois and Clark off a tv uncover when it was their time behind in a 90ties.It’s a matter of catering for a opposite marketplace and audience. There are 52 earths as well, and Lois and Clark are together in a few as good as Clark and Diana. Anything is probable now.

• There are like a hundred versions of superhero star now… Black Spiderman, catwoman marrying Batman… we dont unequivocally caring adequate for usually this one. Just call me when they have a energy baby.

• I for one have been observant for years that this would make a good couple. It is a judicious attribute -as Jim Lee said. Both are super powered strangers in a star of humans. Further, a newness is that no knave now can get to Superman by aggressive their exposed partner and no one can get to Wonder Woman by attackin her diseased boyfriend.

  The attribute was a theme of a good “Elseworlds” striking novel drawn by Gil Kane some years ago. In it, Lois was passed after a chief pyre and Wonder Woman and Supes found any other in a new world. This time around- in a “real” world- it’s cold to see Superman not cumulative to Lois Lane for once. And Wonder Woman can now take a male in her arms that she can’t mangle in half!

  In fact, a beauty of this is that she can be softer with a male who is indeed stronger than her and she can be a tiny exposed (which red blooded lady wants a baby to reason her??) So maybe a delicate side we don’t see now will come out more.

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