Wonder Woman Rants! A friend of CBXF weighs in

The Following Post is an email I recieved earlier today. Shawn weighs-in on the Wonder Woman changes.

Subject: Wonder Woman's New Costume
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/07/wonder_woman_the_power_of_the.html

STREET RAT! (in a derogatory Danny DeVito voice) Stupid DC.... What kind of lame crap is this? Are they trying to make her modern and relatable? Talk about missing the mark completely. She's an individualistic AMAZONIAN. This isn't even close to suiting the characters attitude at all. You can go leather jacket with the Punisher, Ghost Rider, even Wolverine (although I prefer the yellow costume) because it's their ATTITUDE! Is this supposed to make her more accessable? If they are going for that, why not give Bat-Man a Louisville Slugger and call it good (just about EVERYBODY can relate to playing baseball, and just THINK of all the new sports fans that would love this! He could get even grittier and just BASH criminals heads in and say "Home Run" or "Pop Fly" when he's done with them. Wonderful!).... pff.... SOOO stylish..... If they want a style comic they should drop the "super" and make it an indie titlecalled "Diana in the City" or something. Just don't call it Wonder Woman.

And people wonder how I can say I love superheroes but stopped buying their books. Blackest Night (Green Lantern) was lame. Smallville should have had costumes, Heroes should have had costumes, and the X-Men, etc. movies shouldn't be afraid of some flashy-ness in their bright, beautiful colored costumes.

DC needs to get it together. They were always my favorite Super Hero company, but right now they should just be embarrassed.... (sorry for all the spelling errors. i just crapped this out on break)

Shawn Drapal 07/01/2010