Fan favorite artist Jim Lee has changed an icon. He’s redesigned Wonder Woman’s entire costume. Something thing they only attempted once before post-crisis. and that was a 90s failure. Starting with issue #600, Wonder Woman will have a new look and a new direction with writer J.M. Straczynski at the helm.
I’m not digging the costume Jim. Sorry.
The premise sounds very interesting to me. I’m always a sucker for time travel/what if scenarios. The thing I am concerned about is if it’s a self contained arc or if it will be something effecting the DCU as a whole. This is what DC had to say in regards to the new direction:
Suppose someone went back in time and changed one thing, and it changed your life to the point that you had little or no memory of what life had been like before the change happened. What would you do to get it back? Should you get it back? Who did it? And maybe more important…why did they do it?
That is the question faced by Diana starting in issue 600.
The Gods, for reasons of their own but which may have something to with their survival and perhaps the survival of Earth itself, have changed the timeline. In the new timeline, years ago the Gods removed their protection from Paradise Island, and left it vulnerable to attack. And attacked it was. Led by a dark figure, a veritable army descended upon the Island, equipped with weapons that could kill even the Amazons. Outgunned, doomed, Hippolyta gave over her three-year-old daughter to a handful of guardians who spirited her away as Hippolyta led one last desperate battle against the forces that had come to destroy all she had created. In that final battle, she and most of the Amazons were killed, though some managed to escape.
It’s now nearly twenty years later. Diana has been raised in an urban setting, but with a foot in both worlds. She has little or no memory of the other timeline. She knows only what she’s been told by those who raised her On the run, hunted, she must try to survive, help the other refugee Amazons escape the army that is still after them, discover who destroyed Paradise Island and why…and if the timeline can be corrected or not. She also does not yet have access to her full powers, but will be gaining them as she goes. Along the way, she will face a range of enemies — human and otherwise — who we have not seen before.
Courtesy of DC’s The Source
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