Why did you end the Wonder Woman/Nemesis relationship?

Truthfully, because I feel doomed romances can be very moving and illuminating. They are romance in the older sense of the word.

Think of something like Wuthering Heights…it’s not a happy story. But it is one you remember forever.

If I had stayed on the book, I would have loved to give Diana a successful romance story, that would have been a joy. But Nemesis/Diana was conceived as a doomed romance, a story where two people care about each other, but can’t get past who they are at their core to make it work.

Nemesis is a spy, a disguise artist, he is about deception (for the good of the innocent, not personal gain) and Diana is all about truth and uncovering deception. Even when she TRIES to have a civilian identity, she’s terrible at it.

And there was the difference in her culture and his.

I loved writing them together. But I think they were destined not to work, and for me, that made their story all the more memorable.