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MF: We’re standing here at San Diego and I’m looking over at the new DC Girls lineup. So, yeah, it’s important to both of us to make sure that everything we do-I want everyone who reads it to be able to see themselves in it somehow. I go to conventions now and the people that I see, it’s so different than even five years ago.

It’s going something that was maybe the domain of a smaller group to something that’s global, and universal. Do you feel that cultural nexus is driving that or are we just evolving our appreciation-?ĭF: No, I think the culture is changing right now. There’s been a whole bunch of cultural conversations about costuming, with a lot of characters but specifically with regard to Wonder Woman. I wanted her to be drawn on the page for everyone to appreciate and for women to be able to look up to, and to be something to look up to. It’s very important to both of us-it was important to me, drawing Wonder Woman, I wanted to make sure that Wonder Woman is not a character who’s drawn on the page for men to look at. It’s the driving factor behind our new villain, Aegis, and the character driving or supporting him.ĭF: I think that Wonder Woman, like all the characters, means so much to so many different people. And that’s going to be a major part of our story in this next arc. It’s gonna continue to be a struggle for her, finding that balance, and we’re going to continue weaving into our story the fact that other people are seeing that, too-that she’s not fulfilling that role as it should be fulfilled, as the God of War. MF: I feel like her being the God of War is really a struggle for her, as well, because she’s representing something she’s diametrically opposed to. With her becoming the God of War, do you feel like a bit of that turbulence has crept in? She really wants everybody to have every opportunity that they’re entitled to and that they deserve. I still do believe that she fights for everybody’s rights-not just the rights of women, not just the rights of the downtrodden. MF: I still, first and foremost in my mind believe that at her core she’s about love. At this point, as a cultural marker, what do you feel she represents? There’ve been a lot of things that have happened-Gamergate, the Batgirl cover, and that’s just in geek culture. Last year, you guys sort of famously said that she was, above all, a humanist.

In the ’40s she was a war hero, in the ’50s she became a bit of a domesticated damsel, and in the ’70s she emerged as a feminist icon. Over the years, Wonder Woman has served as a cultural marker for a variety of different things. It’s a little bit the other way around, despite the fact that, you know, we’re pretty small. It’s actually kind of the other way around: They won’t necessarily take from what we’re doing, but they’ll certainly take from all the years of Wonder Woman’s history. We’re kind of R&D for the movie, so I never really feel that much of a mandate to make what I’m doing reflect the movie. There’s so much room for people to just be creative and do their own versions. One book doesn’t necessarily 100 percent reflect the other. But what comics have that’s special-for me, it’s the art, I love the art-but it’s kind of pure creativity. We’re doing our part.ĭavid Finch: Ultimately the movies are what everyone sees, they’re the big thing, and we’re very small in comparison.

DAVID FINCH MOVIE

But we’re really trying not to focus on the movie as anything other than a separate entity at this point. And I think that Gal has really embraced the character and I can’t wait to see what she does.

Geoff Johns is involved, and he is brilliant when it comes to character development, so I know she’s going to be spectacular. Meredith Finch: The movie’s coming out, but all you’ve seen are really just images of the character, and it’s very difficult to know how she’s really gonna be defined. What, for you, has been the biggest challenge of writing in the shadow of the movie? You’ve been writing Wonder Woman for about a year. We caught up with the Finches at Comic-Con and found out about how they’re dealing with the movie, Diana’s new look and new job, and a turbulent 12 months in geek culture. 41, sees the beginning of a new arc for the hero, complete with her brand-new costume.

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