Not long now! Just one week to go until the movie is released, so understandably, all the stops are being pulled out for what is apparently the most hotly anticipated movie of the summer. In fact, there’s just so much news, I’m going to wait until after the jump or else the entire home page is going to be nothing but Wonder Woman. Which ain’t a bad thing, I guess, but might not annoy the neighbours.
As well as this week’s news, you can look forward to reading in just a click and a few paragraphs’ time about the week’s comics featuring Diana: Justice League (Rebirth) #21, Justice League/Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #4, Wonder Woman ’77 Meets The Bionic Woman #4 and Trinity #9.
See you in a mo…
As you probably gathered from the start of this entry, we have new posters! Lots and lots of new posters. IMAX 3D posters, international posters – the lot. Look, here are some more.
As well as posters, there’s a whole set of new images, including a bunch from an Entertainment Weekly cover feature.
But moving pictures are the name of the game and as well as Gal Gadot and other members of the cast turning up on various shows in the US to promote the movie, we’ve got a new TV trailer that highlights that while Superman and Batman each has a city to protect, Wonder Woman has the whole world:
There are also some more clips to enjoy.
Wondie fans will notice that the Lasso of Truth is called the ‘Lasso of Hestia’ here, which is a Volume 2 thing (the Lasso burns with the fires of Hestia’s hearth, etc, etc). There are also a few fight scenes, bits of which we’ve seen in trailers before but here are properly fleshed out and properly exciting, too!
Be warned: the second one might be a bit spoilery about one of the characters.
Oddly, we’re also being given a b-roll and bloopers reel, which is normally the kind of thing you have to wait for the DVD to see:
You might think the promos would stop there. But no! Can you say ‘synergy’? Because correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there a DC superheroine TV show on the CW that also guest stars TV’s Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter? I bet she – and indeed the rest of the Supergirl cast – would quite like to make a promo for it, too.
Merchandising continues, of course, with another fashion line on the way from ‘world-renowed fashion icons’ (via Warner Bros), as well as a new frozen yoghurt flavour from Pinkberry. But showing that perhaps Warner’s Asian marketing department hasn’t quite got the hang of this feminism thing, there’s been yet another social media fail involving not only the thieving of Spider-man’s best known catchphrase but some supposedly motherly advice that doesn’t quite fit the character of Hippolyta.
In real-world news, unfortunately the London premiere of the movie has had to be cancelled because of the tragedy in Manchester on Monday night. But slightly more happily, in Sacramento in the US, SixFlags Kingdom is going to get its own ‘Wonder Woman: Lasso of Truth’ ride in June…
Sticking with movies but moving into more comic booky territory, we’re getting the re-release of the “not too bad” 2009 animated Wonder Woman movie, featuring Keri Russell as Diana and Nathan Fillion as Steve Trevor, as well as the likes of Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina and Virginia Madsen. As it’s Diana’s 75th birthday, there’s a whole bunch of special features in this ‘commemorative edition‘. (Caveat: this might have been released last year and I missed it. Oh well, you still get to have this trailer)
And in case you were still following the adventures of alternative universe, wartime Diana in DC Comics: Bombshells, you’ll be glad to hear that’s coming back for a second run later this summer.
That’s it for the news, though. Phew! Time for this week’s comics.
Justice League (Rebirth) #21
Plot
It turns out that it was all a big accident. The mad professor was being set up and his work sabotaged. He’d also been using some ‘borrowed’ alien technology, which turned out not to work well because it was supposed to fit into one of the aliens that the Justice League were beating up. But it’s all sorted now. Except… Batman wonders how odd it is that they’ve been having to deal with so many Big Bads of late. Could there be someone behind it all?
What does Diana do?
Fight the alien, agree with Aquaman a lot and sit at a table that looks like it’s getting ready for some food for a Renaissance Fair.
Extra notes
Quite a fun little two-parter, overall, with some decent writing and some lovely art, but not one Diana fans have to tune in for especially.
Justice League/Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #4
Plot
The Justice League and the Power Rangers work out a way to travel to the Power Rangers’ Earth, where unfortunately Brainiac is already putting cities into bottles. But the two teams can still work their way onto Brainiac’s shapeship…
What does Diana do?
ONLY PICK UP THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER WITH SUPERMAN AND FLY IT INTO SPACE!
Oh yes, and organise the entire military strategy of the Justice League.
Extra notes
Arts a little shabby, although not bad. Generally, a very cool issue for Wonder Woman, though.
Trinity #9
Plot
Still worked up about what happened during their dreams in previous issues, the Trinity meet up in their civvies, but then get boomed up to the halls of the Justice League, changing cossies along the way.
There they find out that the whole place has been taken over by a virus that might have something to do with the Green Lanterns.
They soon discover that a doctor has come along with an all-encompassing cure for the disease…
What does Diana do?
Save Batman from being shot by an infected Green Lantern.
Survive in the vacuum of space by holding her breath.
Extra notes
Nothing to write home about, since this is pretty familiar territory, but nice to see Diana in her off-duty clothes. As before, though, it’s clear that writer Francis Manapul is writing Di a bit older and more serious than everyone is.
Wonder Woman ’77 Meets The Bionic Woman #4
Plot
On the Invisible Plane, Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman pedantically explain to each other their respective story continuities. Then they land on Paradise Island, where various bad girl characters from previous episodes of Wonder Woman now live and are being rehabilitated by the Amazons. Jamie then gets a tour of the island, where she meets Kangas and even Nubia, before Diana and she explain their romantic backstories with their respective Steves to each other.
Then they head off in the Invisible Plane to stop the bad guys and have a fight with some fembots, who somehow manage to remove Diana’s bracelets. Trouble is, you can’t do bullets and braclets without them, which is going to make stopping the invasion of Paradise Island quite hard…
Extra notes
Dear gods, people! SHOW DON’T TELL! Lovely though it is to have the entirety of The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman and even bits of The Six Million Dollar Man lovingly and expertly drawn, just so writer Andy Mangels can prove he’s watched all the episodes of every show about 100 times each, taking copious notes as he did so, this is basically fan fiction, not good storytelling. Do the Greek gods exist in the Wonder Woman TV universe? How about Kangas? Whatever happened to Baroness Von Gunter? Do the Amazons actually hate men?
These are the kinds of things fans sit and wonder over at length, but they aren’t what make involving drama.
Nice to see familiar faces and get all these answers solved; such a shame that virtually nothing actually happens the entire time…
Disclaimer: Owing to the small fortune it would take to buy every single DC comic each week, this is not a guaranteed rundown of all the comics that feature Wonder Woman. If you know of any I’ve missed, email me or leave a comment below and I’ll cover them the following week
