Thursday, March 22, 2012

Wonder Woman and the Hero's Journey

Wonder Woman #10 by Cliff Chiang
Yesterday Wonder Woman #7 was released and created quite a stir (even though this post was inspired by WW #7 the cover to #10 above is not an accident - it will be explained below).  Although Wonder Woman herself has stayed the same in the new DCU - compassionate, loving, brave and powerful - the world around her has become completely different.  Her origin and those surrounding her have gone through a huge change in this reboot.  And I think you can’t mistake this, it is a total reboot.  What happened in the previous DCU is gone now.  I make this point because people bring up the previous universe in a way that seems to imply that it should have a bearing on the new one but it doesn’t.  It has become a totally different universe.

*** SPOILERS BELOW***