According to the DC Universe blog The Source, your second-favorite Amazon (give me a break – I’m writing this thing!) just got the What Not To Wear treatment. As of her eponymous issue #600, Wonder Woman will look like this:
According to The Source, this is in response to fans wondering how she could fight in the outfit we all know or why she can’t have pockets to carry her various implements of justice.
What? She doesn’t stick the keys to the invisible airplane in that more-than-ample corset? C’mon… I’ve seen women keep cell phones, keys, wallets, and makeup in there and dance all night. That said, I’m torn on this new look. It’s hip and sleek and has a kind of timeless quality to it… but that’s not my Wonder Woman. I’d love to know what some younger fans think.
Discuss!
I’m displeased, but as it involves Time Monkeying, it can always be changed back if the masses demand it.
As with the recent issues #700 of Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman #600 should be a celebration of the past and an affirmation for the future. JMS isn’t going this crazy on his Superman storyline, and now we know why. He saved it all for Diana.
Who’s my first-favorite Amazon?
Ummm… I’ll give you a hint: She’s six feet tall and wrote the post above!
*facepalm* Right! Apologies.
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Other superheroes have had costume updates over the years, right? Dunno if I’m entirely sold on the new look, but I don’t loathe it. If that’s ALL they were doing it’d probably be OK, but this retconning her story stuff? Very much disagree with it.
If Linda Carter would have been sporting that outfit, I might have been robbed of my first conscience erection.
If this was like WWjr, It’d be OK. I say bring me back the real WW.
I’m not super knowledgeable wrt the comic. She has her lasso, bracers, and what other implements? Seems like she wears everything she uses.
Me, I don’t mind so much. The new look will take some getting used to, but in all honesty, who really thinks this is going to stick? (See: Electric-Blue Superman) I’ll reserve judgement until I actually read the issue in question…and the fact that I’m actually considering *reading* the issue in question means they’ve gotten my attention.
I think I prefer the Kingdom Come gold-armor-and-sword look, though.
I like it. Makes a lot more sense from a combat perspective. She looks more like a god in this outfit, but it would have been nice if the artist had drawn her bigger. She seems a little too slender for an Amazonian. Shoulders and hips are too small.
I think they have succumbed to the current weird fashion trend of jeggings, which I neither own or understand. you either wear leggings or jeans, but that’s a completely different argument right.
I can finally take her seriously. It’s a nice change for sure, as no longer does she look like she’s competing for the gold in synchronized swimming. But it’s also a little generic, and she’s still too busty. The pants need work.
So, I’m not a huge Wonder Woman fan, or a comic book (gasp) fan in general, the most I know about her is that my friend dresses in the (now old) costume for Halloween every year.
That said, I don’t really mind this outfit. The corset and gauntlets are hot, as is the choker. I’m okay with the shrug/jacket/thing, it’d be hotter if it were leather, but, yeah. My big complaint with this outfit is the leggings that turn into shoes. It’s just, ugh. Ew. The more I look at the bottom half of that picture, the more I hate the new WW outfit.
Boots, they’re more practical than legging-shoes with gold .. things.
I guess I really don’t see this new outfit as timeless at all. It looks like a mashup of 80s and 90s fashion with a bit of the 2000s just in a desperate attempt to keep her fashionably relevant.
I do like it, however, I just don’t think she looks even remotely warriorish or divine. She just looks “cool”. Kind of.
I feel a certain curiosity to know what the outfit looks like without the jacket, though, cos the jacket really annoys me. I mean, honestly: does she need something which only looks to cover her shoulders and upper arms, anyway?
I do like most of it OTHER than the jacket. The leggings-into-the-same-colored boots actually look interesting, they cut a line not normally worn by heroes, and it modernizes a character which – let’s be honest – has (had) a uniform that betrayed a male-dominant mindset that the Amazonians have long been overdue to move away from.
Isn’t that the big conflict Wonder Woman has always had, though? The sense that though she’s one of the most powerful characters in the DC universe, she has a costume designed around fashion elements that whisper more of subservience and submission than independence and strength?
I dunno. That’s probably a bit more than 2 cents. Hushing up now.
Oh, I also forgot one last thing:
I suspect a costume like this will make it much easier for her to have a movie.
Huh. Given the backlash I’ve been reading, I was expecting an outfit that could melt my eyes. This seems okay to me…although, it does make her look younger in my opinion. More like a glammed-up detective than a superhero. Oh, and she doesn’t look anything like an Amazon…not enough curves.
If I were her, I’d lose the jacket. You know you’d just have to whip that bad boy off to do any real fighting, anyway. The gold buckles on her shoes (or whatever those are supposed to be) are a bit odd…I would have gone with boots. All that being said, no one’s ever put ME in charge of an iconic superhero makeover, so…