"Isn't the patriotism in your heart? Why do you have to wear it on your sleeve? Like, can't she just be that person? She still is. She's Wonder Woman! She's f**king saving the world! She's not just saving America; she's saving the f**king world! And she's wearing a great outfit and she's kicking ass. She doesn't need to wear a f**king star to be a f**king patriot."
So said actress Olivia Munn and author of the book, "Suck It! Wonder Woman" (2010) at a San Diego comic book invention last year on her opinion of the new controversial costume makeover the Amazonian princess received from publisher DC Comics to celebrate the comic book’s 600th issue. Gone were the familiar red and white striped heeled boots and white stars meant to symbolize the American flag. In the comics, Wonder Woman now wore black leggings and a dark blue jacket looking more like a biker chick than a crime fighter.
Munn’s comments could now apply to the costume actress Adrianne Palicki will wear in the new NBC reboot of the iconic character in a television series this fall written and produced by writer David E. Kelley, whose previous creations include the successful long running dramas "Ally McBeal" (1997-2002), "Boston Legal" (2004-2008) and "Chicago Hope" (1994-2000). Instead of black leggings, Palicki’s Wonder Woman will wear what appear to be blue spandex pants and boots. I hope for Palicki’s sake they aren’t the kind of leather pants David Schwimmer’s Ross Geller wore on a date in that "Friends" (1994-2004) episode where upon taking them off they shrunk from all the sweat and couldn’t put them back on.
Palicki’s Wonder Woman costume, which has been getting a lot of negative backlash on the Internet since its online unveiling March 18 brings up how today’s superheroes, with the help of comic book artists, writers and Hollywood are veering away from the notion they represent American patriotism.
I admit I wasn’t that crazy about DC Comics doing away with the familiar red, white, and blue costume fans have been so used to for years at first. Like most fans I prefer the original costume actress Lynda Carter wore when she played the character in "Wonder Woman" (1975 – 1979) and I would love to get my hands on a 27 x 40 poster of Megan Fox as the superheroine that an artist that can be seen on wonder-who.com, if one ever gets made.
In fantasy world, superheroes belong to everyone. Not just to Lady Liberty.
As the saying goes, “Controversy sells.” Perhaps this new TV series will have what Lynda Carter told Fox News when asked her opinion about Wonder Woman’s new comic book makeover last summer.
“She’s got an attitude, and if this is the new thing she wants to wear, well by God she’s going to wear it,” Carter said. “And I like that. And I hope somewhere in the story someone mentions, ‘where’s the old one?’ And she says, ‘Get over it.’”
Well, I may be in the minority here, but I have gotten over it. And I am not just saying that because the Amazonian princess has me tied to a chair right now with her “Lasso of Truth” demanding I write a column saying that doing away with the American flag colors is not such a bad thing.
©3/22/11
So said actress Olivia Munn and author of the book, "Suck It! Wonder Woman" (2010) at a San Diego comic book invention last year on her opinion of the new controversial costume makeover the Amazonian princess received from publisher DC Comics to celebrate the comic book’s 600th issue. Gone were the familiar red and white striped heeled boots and white stars meant to symbolize the American flag. In the comics, Wonder Woman now wore black leggings and a dark blue jacket looking more like a biker chick than a crime fighter.
Munn’s comments could now apply to the costume actress Adrianne Palicki will wear in the new NBC reboot of the iconic character in a television series this fall written and produced by writer David E. Kelley, whose previous creations include the successful long running dramas "Ally McBeal" (1997-2002), "Boston Legal" (2004-2008) and "Chicago Hope" (1994-2000). Instead of black leggings, Palicki’s Wonder Woman will wear what appear to be blue spandex pants and boots. I hope for Palicki’s sake they aren’t the kind of leather pants David Schwimmer’s Ross Geller wore on a date in that "Friends" (1994-2004) episode where upon taking them off they shrunk from all the sweat and couldn’t put them back on.
Palicki’s Wonder Woman costume, which has been getting a lot of negative backlash on the Internet since its online unveiling March 18 brings up how today’s superheroes, with the help of comic book artists, writers and Hollywood are veering away from the notion they represent American patriotism.
I admit I wasn’t that crazy about DC Comics doing away with the familiar red, white, and blue costume fans have been so used to for years at first. Like most fans I prefer the original costume actress Lynda Carter wore when she played the character in "Wonder Woman" (1975 – 1979) and I would love to get my hands on a 27 x 40 poster of Megan Fox as the superheroine that an artist that can be seen on wonder-who.com, if one ever gets made.
My attitude about DC Comics makeover last summer was if they are going to give Wonder Woman black leggings now, then they might as well add some black leather high heeled boots and replace her “Lasso of Truth” and bracelets with a cat-o-nine tails whip and a couple gold pairs of steel handcuffs and make her into a superheroine/dominatrix.I am not an avid reader of Batman and Superman but when the Man of Steel’s parents sent their son to Earth, they did not program the ship to land in New York’s Smallville. I may be wrong, but America was never mentioned by Superman’s parents in the first issue as his new place of residence. When millionaire Bruce Wayne decided to become Batman, he did it not only to avenge his parents’ deaths but to fight crime in Gotham City. Wonder Woman (aka Diana Prince) is not from America. She is based on Greek mythology. Let’s be honest here. If you were a superhero, are you telling me you will only fight evil in America and not the world? It is like saying James Bond only fights villains who threaten England.
Looking at Wonder Woman today in the comics and the upcoming television series now, not only have I come to terms with her new look, but I am also comfortable of doing away with the notion that superheroes represent “only” America.
In fantasy world, superheroes belong to everyone. Not just to Lady Liberty.
As the saying goes, “Controversy sells.” Perhaps this new TV series will have what Lynda Carter told Fox News when asked her opinion about Wonder Woman’s new comic book makeover last summer.
“She’s got an attitude, and if this is the new thing she wants to wear, well by God she’s going to wear it,” Carter said. “And I like that. And I hope somewhere in the story someone mentions, ‘where’s the old one?’ And she says, ‘Get over it.’”
Well, I may be in the minority here, but I have gotten over it. And I am not just saying that because the Amazonian princess has me tied to a chair right now with her “Lasso of Truth” demanding I write a column saying that doing away with the American flag colors is not such a bad thing.
©3/22/11
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