The "firestorm" over Wonder Woman's costume last week was fun for about five minutes (see the PIPELINE EXTRA I devoted to it), before it devolved into the same old, same old.
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The first thing that jumped out to me was her leather jacket, which reminded me of an old "What The - ?!?" story that Joe Quesada may have even drawn, about all Marvel heroes getting leather jackets to be cool - including the Human Torch.
But, I still like it. Maybe it's because I'm a comics child of the 90s, and so it doesn't seem so out of place to me. I don't know. It's not like they gave her an eye patch and a belt full of pouches, plus one on her thigh. (And, honestly, I'm not sure I'd hate the pouches. Like I said: Child of the 90s.)
I liked Jim Lee's design sketch more than the preview pages that were available on-line, where the cleavage seemed to be on even more prominent display. Wonder Woman's top now strains at the straps to hold her in, and the jacket opens up to focus attention on her chest frequently.
(The eye is drawn to the point of greatest contrast, so the white skin amidst a sea of dark colors is where the eye goes. Hello, cleavage!) So while the overall costume might be more demure, the unintended consequence is that it draws even more attention to her chest than the old mostly-bare look did.
Still, it's just a costume change. Not a big deal. It's fun to fuss over for a little bit. It's always interesting to see creators play with these things, but we also all know that it won't last forever.
It never does. Spider-Man's black costume didn't stick around. Daredevil's armor costume is long gone and mostly forgotten. Superman's mullet got chopped off. Iron Man - well, he's never had an armor last long enough to be considered canon, has he?
It's fun to see the newspapers and the TV stations that DC planted the story with take up the gauntlet and run with it. Although, honestly, how long will it be before they realize that this isn't news at all?
Are they so desperate to fill air time and column inches that they'll take stories from other publisher's marketing departments? Don't they feel stupid for making such big deals out of Spider-Man's unmasking and Captain America's death? Have they not learned their lessons?
In any case, some in fandom are more prone to outrage. They look for the drama. They look to be insulted. They want to argue vehemently over the stupidest things they can find on comic book message boards.
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A new Wonder Woman costume is cause for a flurry of their fun. I sit back, shake my head a bit, and go back to ignoring them.
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