iskios:One thing among many I like about this is how we see a...

iskios:

One thing among many I like about this is how we see a vital aspect of Diana's character made manifest here. That she is a fully realized woman, and whatever insecurities she may have as a living being, she does not apologize, nor should she, for being who and what she is. She is Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and she will not be belittled for it, nor will she be made to feel a need to apologize for it. 

I loved this story line.  

gailsimone:

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Alkyone and Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: The Circle

Ron Randall

Gail Simone

LOVE this story.  :)

But I think that's Terry Dodson drawing that. The great Ron Randall stepped up to do a few pages when Terry hurt his hand. But this is pure Terry, I'm pretty sure (and Rachel Dodson, one of the best, inking!).

Thank you, that was a definite goal. The writer before me did a MAGNIFICENT job of getting people to look at Wonder Woman again, but he introduced the idea that she was a Golem, similar to Hebrew mythology, and I really had a problem with that.

My idea with Wonder Woman was to make her millions of versions cohere, I wanted to make something that had all her previous aspects, and not be ashamed of them or try to hide them. 

But there were two elements I felt did not fit and I did my best to, not negate them, but offer a different viewpoint. One was the large role rape played in her origin, including the seduction-by-gods stuff, and the other was the idea that she's a golem.  Pretty much everything else, I tried not to negate, to bring into the myth.

I think that may have been a turn off for some people, actually. It does seem that the versions of the character that sell the best bring an almost completely new version to the book. I'm not judging that, I'm really enjoying Brian's take (I'm a huge Azzarello fan), but there had been SO MANY reboots, I wanted to have a healing, building run. I'm really proud of most of those stories. I wish my run had been a little longer so we could show her superhero side more.