But now you can! Linda Hamilton didn't wear fishnet stockings in Terminator 2, did she? Did she? (.Did she? It's been a while.) There's nothing in The Hunger Games about Katniss wearing stilettos in battle. There was a time when you couldn't have it both ways. There was a time when functionality had to take a back seat to fashion, and this is when your star-spangled undies were invented, you see. There was a time when nobody understood that women could be good at fighting and also hot. Look, there was a time when it had to be this way. You would not run to catch a bus in that top, unless you crossed your arms over your chest the whole way there. Tell me the truth, Wonder: If I asked you to participate in a 50-yard dash, and it were you against someone you really wanted to be beat, is there any possibility you would say to me, "Sure, let me run inside and get my red plastic bustier that sucks me in like Scarlett O'Hara and supports fully 30 percent of my natural blessings?" THERE IS NO SUCH POSSIBILITY. They are clothes for high-kicking, specifically in a Rockettes Christmas show where you and sixty other women just like you are playing the part of an entire shipment of Wonder Woman Barbies that Santa had to throw away because they were deemed too naughty for the kids on the "nice" list. Nevertheless, lady, these are not clothes for butt-kicking. And, of course, the fact that you have pants at all, rather than star-spangled underwear, is an improvement. You have dark blue pants instead of electric blue pants, and they gave you back your red boots. Now granted, that - your latest look for your new pilot at NBC - is better than the original version we saw. I realize that you have often been asked to embrace the ridiculous, the silly, the impractical, the spangled, the swimsuit-y, and the downright inappropriate.īut Wonder (can I call you Wonder?), you deserve better than this. While you don't know me, I believe you know my dear friend and comics guru Glen Weldon, who has discussed your jacket and so forth in the past. I've seen some of your costume reboots (no pun intended). I did always admire your invisible jet, which I knew mostly through the Superfriends cartoons. I am not much of a comic-book reader, and back when you were being played by Lynda Carter from 1975 to 1979, I wasn't quite old enough for that to be up my alley. He says Wonder Woman's lasted so long partly because of good timing - she was just one of the first female superheroes.In this photo from 1977, Lynda Carter gets it done as one of many Wonder Woman. "She really is the first superhero humanitarian," says Jim Lee, the co-publisher of DC Comics and a former Wonder Woman artist himself. That's pretty much in line with what Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston intended.Ī psychologist with connections to Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and a strong interest in feminism, Marston invented Wonder Woman as an antidote to what he called the "blood-curdling masculinity" of the comics.Īrriving on comics pages just as the horrors of World War II were descending, Wonder Woman would rise above male aggression - she almost never kills - and she would leave her home on Paradise Island to fight for America, described in her comics as "the last citadel of democracy and of equal rights for women!" "She represents a strong woman, and I hope that I can be like her," she says. "I could probably stop a bullet." For Izola, Wonder Woman is an empowering figure. "Breastplate's hard as a rock," she jokes, knocking on the armor. In this photo from 1977, Lynda Carter gets it done as one of many Wonder Woman. Izola, who only goes by that one name, was waiting her turn for the jet in an elaborate armor-plated costume she made herself. That's a sentiment I've been hearing a lot this week. "She's strong, she doesn't need a man, she's powerful. "Wonder Woman is just the ultimate woman," she says. When the jet was unveiled, convention-goer April Meneghetti was first in line to climb inside and have her picture taken. Wonder Woman display at Comic-Con International 2016 preview night on Jin San Diego, California.Īmerica's favorite Amazon princess turns 75 this year - Wonder Woman first swung her golden lasso in All-Star Comics #8 in December 1941, and she's still fighting for freedom and the rights of women.ĭC Entertainment is celebrating the Amazon's birthday with a series of events at this year's San Diego Comic-Con a street corner in the downtown Gaslamp District has been turned into a tribute to Wonder Woman's home on Paradise Island, complete with artists painting giant portraits of her, and a replica of her famous invisible jet.
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