Apparently, there’s more than one movie featuring Wonder Woman coming out this year. Who knew? As well as Wonder Woman, there’s one called Justice League, too, which is directed by Zac “Dark and Gritty” Snyder.
With the movie getting ever closer, naturally the number of tie-ins to Wonder Woman is increasing. For example, new to the list is a Diana Prince Funko toy, which has a removable shield. Surprisingly enough, Steve Trevor is going to get a single issue of his own comic, Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor #1, as well. How exciting. Imagine how many people are going to be pleased by that.
Meanwhile, assuming you haven’t been too busy designing your own bracelets to read any comics, you may have noticed a few new titles featured Diana this week: Trinity #7, Justice League #17 and Wonder Woman Meets The Bionic Woman #3. We can chat about them after the jump.
The talk of the past week has been all about the new Wonder Woman movie. Again. Although, to be fair, we have had a rather impressive new poster (above) and a rather shiny new trailer to mull over.
Lots to discuss in that, obviously, although Diana flying, Dr Poison et al have all been hinted at elsewhere:
Diana thinks London’s hideous. Then again, it’s 1917/1918 and she’s probably already had to sail past the still-working wharfs before getting to Tower Bridge, so she probably would think that.
Elsewhere, Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp’s run on Wonder Woman is currently part of an exhibit at the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics in Holon, Israel. And if you’re a big buyer of cereals, now’s the time to switch to Cheerios in the US, since they feature a whole bunch of DC comics and artwork, including Diana as drawn by Neal Adams.
And on TV, NBC’s Powerless not only revealed Themyscira’s (current?) time zone…
…it also hinted that the technology used in Diana’s invisible plane is being made available to the manufacturers of children’s toys.
Can’t imagine that ending badly.
After the jump, a look at the latest DC comics to feature our Diana: Wonder Woman #18, Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77 #8 and Justice League/Power Rangers #3. But not in that order.
It’s been a week of movie spoilers for Wonder Woman fans since last we met. Members of the press have been allowed to see a couple of scenes from the movie and talk to director Patty Jenkins.
More importantly, they’ve been given the lowdown on the plot and it seems a certain French magazine got the wrong end of the stick about the film’s most important points as far as canon is concerned. IMDb is now prepared to reveal all (spoilers ahoy):
Something Diana does not realize at first, but the audience gets, is Diana’s true power as a demigod. Early on, the movie catches fans up on Amazon history, storybook style, telling of a time when Zeus ruled Earth and his jealous son Ares poisoned the hearts of men so they’d turn on each other. Zeus turned to other gods for help and Aphrodite created a race of Amazon warriors, powerful women with a mission to restore peace.
It worked for a while but Ares killed other gods and almost killed Zeus, until Zeus blasted him and created Themyscira. He left behind a “god killer” to the Amazons, the only weapon capable of killing Ares. But it’s not a physical object, it’s Diana, a demigod, herself, as the secret daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) — she is the weapon that can kill Ares.
The observant will notice a very important ‘almost’, the addition of a certain goddess to the plot, the restoration of an important origin point from the nu52 and a lot of new metaphors. It certainly sounds a lot better than the French version, anyway.
All in the real world, there’s been a brief interview with Susan Eisenberg, who of course voiced Wondy in the Justice League animated series and is set to do the same in the video game sequel to Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Not much by way of comics since last time, though. In fact, Justice League (Rebirth) #16 was the only one I could spot and even then, very little Diana. Indeed, all does it make clear what was hinted at last time: Diana has gone back in time to the (non-specific) age when the Olympians began.
Lots of things, albeit quite small ones, have happened since the last WWW, but it’s a full quality service I offer here, so I’ll do my best to let you know all of them.
We’ve had the cover of the new Wonder Woman novel released:
Empire magazine has come out and done a feature on the movie, complete with new pictures and not one but two covers:
There’s also been a new TV spot released for the movie (it doesn’t add much, though):
Meanwhile, June 3rd has been declared Wonder Woman Day by DC:
That’s the day after the movie is released, mind, so I don’t know what’s going on there.
And if you fancy helping America’s ACLU, Felix Comic Art is selling off a new piece by Cliff Chiang:
After the jump, we’ll look (in quite sketchy detail, given my backlog) at the DC Comics that have featured Diana, the Amazon Princess™, over the past two weeks: Trinity #6, Love Is Love, Justice League #15, Wonder Woman #17 and Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77. Two of those feature the (former?) father of Diana, Zeus, but you’ll have to guess which ones for now.
I should also mention that the new DC Animated Universe movie, Justice League: Dark is now available to buy. As with rather a lot of the previous DCAU movies, it’s intended less as a chance to continue the stories of the Justice League set up in Justice League: War, more as a chance to launch new spin-off series featuring different characters. So while our Diana does make an appearance, it’s mainly so she can be tied up with her own lasso, while Batman, John Constantine, Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Jason Blood and co go off and do the real work.
If you like Zatanna and Constantine or simply miss The Guyver, it’s a must; if you’re in it for Diana, you can probably skip it.
