COMICS: Grant Morrison Talks More About His Plans For Untitled WONDER WOMAN Series

COMICS: Grant Morrison Talks More About His Plans For Untitled WONDER WOMAN Series

While he may be leaving behind monthly superhero comics as he wraps up his runs on Action Comics and Batman Incorporated, Grant Morrison still has big plans for another of DC's most iconic superheroes. Read on for details.

By JoshWilding - Mar 19, 2013 06:03 AM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics
Source: Newsarama

Widely believed to be All-Star Wonder Woman, Grant Morrison's still untitled Wonder Woman series has been on the cards for years, but with the prolific writer now wrapping up his runs on Action Comics and Batman Incorporated , it's close than ever to becoming a reality. Talking to Newsarama recently, this is what Morrison had to say about his plans for the series and his take on the Amazonian princess. Be sure to sound off with your thoughts on this below.


"Wonder Woman is more... unified, I think. The original idea of Wonder Woman was pretty sound. And I think the other great idea of Wonder Woman was her TV show with Lynda Carter. So I'm going to try to do something that's got all of that. As I told you, I've been working my way through the entire history of feminism, and I'm doing my research, and I'm talking to everyone, and my wife is leaning over my shoulder. So I really want to make it a particularly good book."

"It's different from Superman and Batman, because I think Wonder Woman... there have been different Wonder Womans — you know, the mod, 1960s, Wonder Woman. But we're trying to unify everything into a... I don't know if I can answer this one, Vaneta. I think this is more like All-Star Superman than how I did Batman, you know? Because I actually took a really different approach to Wonder Woman than I did with Batman, where I was combining all the ages into one man's life. And I worked it out on a 15-year timescale... when he was 25 and met Talia, and on from there. And I had all that worked out."

"But with Wonder Woman, I kind of read a bunch of stories and then ignored them all. This is like a completely new version of Wonder Woman."


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NorrinRaddical
NorrinRaddical - 3/19/2013, 6:24 AM
First thing that I thought was "please do for her what you did for All Star Superman -- NOT what you did for any other character anywhere else".

Morrison's ALl Star Wonderwoman would not only be a dream come true, but the fans, and Wonder Woman, DESERVE it
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 3/19/2013, 6:25 AM
A stupid cartoon? Really? Is that the best we can get? Forget it
NorrinRaddical
NorrinRaddical - 3/19/2013, 6:25 AM
who is everyone's dream artist for the series?
NovemberGrey
NovemberGrey - 3/19/2013, 6:25 AM
I like it when authors aren't afraid of change. Fanboys freak out but characters need to change to reflect the times and also give a more complete character profile than just what's on the surface. People are so much smarter now than they were 20 years ago. Movies, comics, tv is all finally starting to catch onto that fact.
antman73
antman73 - 3/19/2013, 6:26 AM
if there someone who can save wonder woman is grant morrison (beside Alan Moore and his Promethea...)
ScottScottScott
ScottScottScott - 3/19/2013, 6:26 AM
Noooooooooo Keep Morrison away from my fav character.. Keep him away!!!!
TheDude
TheDude - 3/19/2013, 6:29 AM
Oh great, he's gonna kill off Wonder Woman now :)
UltimaRex
UltimaRex - 3/19/2013, 6:29 AM
Cue BS from SteveRogersSon in 5...4...3...2...
GuardianAngel
GuardianAngel - 3/19/2013, 6:35 AM
UltimateRex beat me to it.
Tevii
Tevii - 3/19/2013, 6:35 AM
His All Star Superman is overrated, his Action Comics was okay at best and his Return of Bruce Wayne almost caused me to quit collecting comics altogether...

BUT his JLA run was decent and I'm interested in solid, definitive Wonder woman story, so Im willing to check it out for a couple issues
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/19/2013, 6:39 AM
I have a feeling this will be amazing!

WW needs more attention and this is truly what the character deserves!
GarthRanzz
GarthRanzz - 3/19/2013, 7:01 AM
I remember when Adam Hughes did his watchmen miniseries, they said he was pulled off his dream wonder woman book. Please let him be the artist for this!
polarkyle
polarkyle - 3/19/2013, 7:01 AM
make wonder woman like thor with her battling greek gods. hopefully this series has better art than the current ww book
MarkV
MarkV - 3/19/2013, 7:14 AM
Quietly!!!!!!
JayJayCAW
JayJayCAW - 3/19/2013, 7:19 AM
personally, I'm just plain tired of Grant Morrison and all the "All-Star" books.....that has only 1 series completed (still waiting on All-Star Batman & Robin here).

Just bring on the Earth One Wonder Woman stories already.
jlabatman0511
jlabatman0511 - 3/19/2013, 7:48 AM
Can't stand Morrison, hate just about about everything he has worked on, Action Comics, All-Star Superman, New X-men, Batman Inc., hate this guy!
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TheAcidSkull
TheAcidSkull - 3/19/2013, 8:22 AM
morrison is great, so this will be great too
DaveT
DaveT - 3/19/2013, 9:27 AM
I've never been much interested in the character until reading the current Wonder Woman series. It is really excellent. Not sure I want a different version of her just at the moment.
Shadowelfz
Shadowelfz - 3/19/2013, 9:32 AM
I can see it now... Wonder Woman will be from the twenty-eleventh dimension in the year 3500, a composite god made of all the essence of woman to become the paragon woman, and sent back in time to the twenty first century to prevent the universe from blowing up from a psycho-organic uni-mega super being known as Ares or ARATATTAGANNAMA. Pure brilliance!

Seriously, though, GM is a good writer if he does rather straight forward stuff. Its when he takes his hallucigens and starts going all over the place that he sucks.
Asterisk
Asterisk - 3/19/2013, 9:41 AM
Grant Morrison is...probably my favorite comic book writer, and All-Star Superman is my second favorite comic of all time (behind Watchmen, of course). I have high hopes for this.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 3/19/2013, 10:28 AM
Isn't this supposed to be Wonder Woman: Earth One?
I like a bit of what he's saying, but I'm not keen onb the feminist focus.
I mean, I realise that Wonder Woman is a feminist icon, but all too often this is the tail that wags the dog, with WW.
I think WW needs to get away from feminism like Batman needed to get away from camp, in the '70s.
Besides, having the main female superherop character always be about the fact that she's a woman and not about the fact that she's a superhero and an individual actually hinders the feminist cause. Surely, right?
WW is flat out awesome and society is slowly realising just how awesome. From the Lynda Carter show show to the George Perez stuff, then the Gail Simone stuff and then the Lauren Montgomery DC Universe movie, right up to the recent awesomeness of her video game appearances. That is the direction WW stuff should be going in.
Another thing that seems to be a hinderance to the character -as a product and as a viable franchise- is her constant reinventions. I hope Grant is not just the latest in a long line of really good writers that come along and want to fix Wonder Woman by throwing out everything that has been done before and radically reinventing her. Okay, so we do get some interesting takes on the character, like the New 52 version, by Brian Azzerello or the WW: Odyssey version, by JMS, but in the long run it just adds to the overall inconsistancy of Wonder Woman that really does alienate fans and creators (and, of course, movie producers).
If a Superman film comes out, we have a pretty good idea of what character and universe we are going to see up on the big screen. Same with Spider-Man and Batman, etc. etc. But Wonder Woman? All bets are off, because everyone who gets ahold of her wants to fix her. Despite all of this, though, there is a strong mythology there. It should be used.
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 3/19/2013, 10:53 AM
I still don't understand why writers have never gone back to the original Greek myths and tried to flesh out a unified fantasy universe for her the way Thor has Asgard and the Nine Realms. Sure writers have given her Gods, monsters, and magic to play with - but no one has really fleshed out how this fantasy world of ancient myth could coincide with our contemporary civilization nor have they re-imagined how these characters could exist as people existing in a modern day world. You still writers making Zeus a dude in robes living on top of a mountain.

To me Bill Willingham's Fable series should be the #1 inspiration for rebooting the Wonder Woman franchise. Have the Gods and several monsters all living in the modern world of man in secrecy. Have them existing as divided secret society of Gods dedicated maintaining their power over humanity that doesn't fear them anymore due to technology. Put them at odds with the New Gods of the JLA. Have Wonder Woman fight these guys in their attempts to reassert dominance over humanity.
thatcoldblackcloud
thatcoldblackcloud - 3/19/2013, 10:53 AM
Morrison is a GOD. He can do no wrong.
pastramionbri
pastramionbri - 3/19/2013, 11:04 AM
@thatcold Except for pretty much everything he's done in recent years.
GarthRanzz
GarthRanzz - 3/19/2013, 11:04 AM
I thought George Perez focused on the Greek mythology?
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/19/2013, 12:41 PM
Love his stuff.
TheFox
TheFox - 3/19/2013, 2:57 PM
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF WONDER WOMAN, YOU FILTHY SCOTTISH BASTARD!!!

... ahem.

Alright, that might have been an overreaction, and it might have been premature. After all, I've liked a lot of what Morrison has done on New 52 Superman lately, and I dug All-Star Superman. And the fact is, Morrison is FAR and away a better choice for WW than Brain-f%$#ing-Azzarello-- and at this point, there's nothing he can do to the character to match that guy's complete massacring of Diana's mythology, backstory, and character.

Hell, he could even end up fixing Wonder Woman, if the series ends up being in-continuity. And if it's not, then it doesn't matter anyway, right?

...

... Dear God, don't let him f%$# up Wonder Woman, too...

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mykanmur
mykanmur - 3/19/2013, 4:33 PM
I agree with RamonSuarez's point about taking the Greek Mythology angle and making it work with the rest of the DC Universe. It's like WW has to put that part of her reality on hold when she goes in with the JL - the magical/mythology stuff just detaches her, but there are ways to honor it and make it fit in with everything else - we've seen it done.

I'm on the fence about the current WW book - I enjoy it, but something still seems off or missing.

Morrison's point about combining the best elements of the different versions of WW is music to my ears - that's exactly what I want. I want advanced mythology characters - maybe tie them into Darkseid and the New Gods, I want Diana Prince, IADC and the Wonderspin, I want a strong female character who has to find a balance between the feminist Amazon culture and the rest of the world. If Mr. Morrison can deliver this, he just might give us a version of WW that is the all-time definitive version of her - one that people beyond die hard fans and loyalists will recognize and appreciate.
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