I completely missed that the writer announced for Wonder Woman, Brian Azzarello, is the guy who wrote 100 Bullets and The Joker.
Oh dear.
Poor Diana just can’t get a break.
I loved 100 Bullets, but this has to be a really bad joke. Wonder Woman, the character most desperately in need of a reboot and coherent reconciliation of her origin, is handed off to a male writer who writes “gritty” and “realistic” stories. Oh look, she’s being angry and shouty again swinging a bloody sword. Just let go, DC. Give up. Put Diana in mothballs and just use her classic image to sell merchandise. You will never, ever publish anything meaningful using her. Cliff Chiang is a very talented artist, and I mean him no disrespect. The last chance DC had to make good on Wonder Woman was to follow through on the rumored Grant Morrison run. Yes, I do very much like him, but the underlying point here is that I can’t think of a single contemporary writer other than him who has had both the clarity and daring to publicly acknowledge that Diana is a very damaged character with a problematic origin and history that need serious exploration. At least I can say that the final nail in this particular coffin was a very pretty one.
Source: Girls Read Comics Too
While I really loved Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman, I wasn’t fond of some of the darker storylines like Genocide. I have this crazy idea that Wonder Woman should be awesome and exciting and fun. Clearly DC disagrees.
(Or maybe Brian Azzarello really wants to do something different after all that “grim and gritty” stuff and will surprise all of us. OK, probably not.)
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