Wonder Woman’s Latest Makeover
Hey, Wonder Woman! You’re driving me nuts.
DC Comics has announced they’re changing Wonder Woman’s costume. Let’s forget that her costume is truly iconic. Let’s forget it’s been one of the most licensed images in American comic books. Let’s even forget that
artist/co-publisher Jim Lee’s new design isn’t bad at all. Let’s just question the wisdom of capricious change.
We’ve been through this before. In 1968, DC took her out
of her costume and dressed her as Emma Peal from The Avengers teevee show. It didn’t work. In 1982, DC altered the eagle to look like a double-double-you. Since then, that image has been softened to appear almost indistinguishable.
DC has re-launched, re-booted, re-vitalized and changed
Wonder Woman more often than a new mom changes her baby’s diaper. Some incarnations were quite good, but few lasted long enough to establish an audience.
DC has repeatedly proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of developing their artistic successes. It looks like every time somebody new comes in, he’s got to “save Wonder Woman” just to make his bones.
Perhaps the numbers crunchers panic easily – that’s certainly been known to happen. Perhaps they should just focus on making great comics instead of
overdoing lame “events.”
Wonder Woman has been a role model to thousands of young
girls and has been an entry-point for a lot of women into this still-male
dominated medium. DC should honor Wonder Woman and her heritage by treating her with the same reverence with which they treat Superman. The way publisher has treated Wonder Woman for the past couple decades has been quite sad.
Classic Comics Press is the little engine that could, a small operation that has produced lovely editions of many series, including The Heart of Juliet Jones and Mary Perkins On Stage. Publisher Charles Pelto and collections editor James Gauthier yesterday talked about those books and today, we continue to examine their plans. 
As has been unofficially discussed on the net, Warner Premiere continues to exploit DCE’s major heroes. The details on the next release were officially unveiled today in the following press release.
Publisher Charles Pelto has turned a labor of love into a business that is surviving despite tough economic times. Along with James Gauthier, he has been slowly growing his operation, adding two new series this year. ComicMix had to the chance to chat with the two and in part one, we look at CCP’s origins and why these two strips launched the line.
CMix: And what led you to form Classic Comics Press? When was this?
On August 26, 2006, Green Glass Films began production on ALGENY: The Genetic Factor. Written and directed by Andrew Burroughs, this movie was inspired by Jeremy Rifkin’s book 
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New York, NY – June 28, 2010 – Marvel Entertainment, LLC announced today that it has appointed Jeph Loeb as Executive Vice President, Head of Television, a newly created division of Marvel Entertainment. In this new role, Mr. Loeb will work alongside Dan Buckley, Publisher & President of the Print, Animation & Digital Divisions, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., to translate Marvel’s popular characters and stories to the television medium, in both live-action and animation formats. In addition to these responsibilities, Mr. Loeb will oversee the development and distribution of live-action, animated and direct-to-DVD series. Mr. Loeb was previously a Marvel-exclusive Eisner-Award-winning comic book writer and an Emmy-nominated writer for his work on NBC’s Heroes. The announcement was made today by Alan Fine, Executive Vice President, Office of the President and Chairman of Marvel Studios’ Creative Committee, and by Mr. Buckley, to whom Mr. Loeb will report.
