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DC Comics: Rebirth

The fact that it was censored makes me think that it was underwear, or at least that DC and Rucka interpreted it that way.
This isn't specifically Rebirth related, but it is a DC Comic.
Wonder Woman '77 will be crossing over with Dynamite's Bionic Woman comics. My first thought was that they would be crossing her over with the character from the TV series, but the picture they use on the CBR article show a piece of artwork from the reboot they did a few years back. I'm thinking that might have just been a mistake, but the article isn't specific, so I'm not positive.
This will be WW77's first crossover, but their Batman '66 comic has also crossed over with The Green Hornet (60's version), The Man from Uncle, and Steed and Mrs. Peel.
 
Phoenix219 said:
I actually dislike that they keep de aging Clark AND Diana. Those two should have their entire history as Immortals going back to the Golden Age. THAT is why Superman should be the big boyscout, and have all of those traditional American Values to fight for. Wonder Woman is empowered by the Greek Gods. I get why legacy characters have to keep existing in the modern day, and why Batman's origin is constantly being updated, but it would truly not bother me if all the major characters remained a relic of when they were created, Barry and Hal in the silver age, Wally in the 90s/2000s, etc, Bruce retiring to a more ("Finch on person of Interest") style role while Tim (or even Terry) takes up the mantle to do the legwork.... No need to keep rebooting if your entire back catalogue can be in continuity...
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Very much this, I was only just getting into comics at the time of CoIE but the deaging of Diana post-Crisis (removing her Silver and Bronze Age appearances in addition to her Golden Age ones (losing the Golden Age appearances of the "Trinity" was tollerable and understandable as the Golden Age Batman was dead and they still had the Silver Age SM & BM to work with) was ridiculus as it created more problems than it solved (likewise the removal of Kara-Zor-El and the "Superboy years" from canon). Having Superman appear in BB "The Call" was one of the biggest of late Beyond for me and I'm also a big fan of the concept behind the late-middle-aged Kal of Kingdom Come & The Kingdom even if there elements of the stories I don't like.

Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and Flash being legacies - with new replacements being introduced into the roles every ten (in-universe) years or so is something that I think they should do, and something that there was being the potential for, for all the above since at the latest the Eighties.
 
DC likes to fool themselves into thinking that "rebooting" something as timeless are drawn images on a page is some sort of magic. New 52 was an exercise in extreme blandness.
 
Superman and Wonderman were actually doing it, but it didn't get excited a fraction as excited as still seeing this in the 80s, which turned out to be a trick.

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1. John Byrne (Art above) claims that under a yellow sun, Superman's biology is perfect, and lives a perfectly excretionaless life, which is why Clark will never truly be one of us.

2. Superman and Wonder Woman are practically on the same level with very similar powers, depending on who is writing/drawing.

3. Wonder Woman probably doesn't poop either, if Byrne is right.

4. Underwear (primarily?) is to stop shit (skid marks) getting on the inside of your regular clothes if you are not great at wiping.

5. People who do not defecate do not need silky lacy delicate panties.

6. Regular men and women who chose to wear thongs, must be spectacularly confident wipers.

7. Shouldn't thongs cut farts in half? So a big "TWRRRDDS", are split into two smaller trrds, one veering left, and the other one veering right to each "pop" a few inches away from each other clearly resonating as two different sound effect events?
 
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I personally believe that she, eats poops and sleeps, but this train of thought was proudly brought to today by "John Byrne is a Wackadoodle".

How much Doctor Who have you seen?

One of the companions was being turned into stone, calcifying very slowly from an infection.

Amy started crying because, facing one's own mortality is sad.

Sand came out her tear ducts.

Double-tick creepy and freaky there. :)
 
Guy Gardener said:
I personally believe that she, eats poops and sleeps, but this train of thought was proudly brought to today by "John Byrne is a Wackadoodle".
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Ony you could come up with 1 + Orange= Fish.

Guy Gardener said:
One of the companions was being turned into stone, calcifying very slowly from an infection.

Amy started crying because, facing one's own mortality is sad.

Sand came out her tear ducts.

Double-tick creepy and freaky there. :)
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I've see all of Doctor Who. What you described is a typical Doctor Who episode. Move along. Nothing to see here.
 
You really don't see a connection between Amy's tear ducts, and Diana's urethra?

Wonder Woman is a Golem passing very well for human, but there was an issue where the magic that bound Diana together did start breaking down, and she was leaking shale, but that was 20 years ago and I can't find the pages on google.

It's called logical farcity... Um, no it's not. It's called a logical fallacy. I've been saying logical farcity for ten years, and no one has corrected me.

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Guy Gardener said:
You really don't see a connection between Amy's tear ducts, and Diana's urethra?
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1+Orange=Fish
Guy Gardener said:
Wonder Woman is a Golem passing very well for human, but there was an issue where the magic that bound Diana together did start breaking down, and she was leaking shale, but that was 20 years ago and I can't find the pages on google.
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Golems are from Jewish Mythology. Diana is the product od Greek Myths. The same rules don't apply. Greek gods make fullly functional human from statues. See Pygmalion.
Yeah, I remember that too. She's been turned back to stone a few times. So have her sisters. It's a thing.

Guy Gardener said:
It's called logical farcity... Um, no it's not. It's called a logical fallacy. I've been saying logical farcity for ten years, and no one has corrected me.

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Maliprops are funny.
 
So the real deal is that Frank Cho is a perv within acceptable margins, who over sexualized a character that was intended to inspire 12 year old girls to be brave, smart and strong, because he didn't understand who his audience was.

Frank over reacted to being censored, meanwhile DC should always expect 1940s pinup dollygirls from Frank, when they contract him to work for them, and they were silly to expect otherwise unless they told him that this cover and this title was strictly a sexy-panty free-zone.
 
People are being critical of the Frank Cho now? Well, I guess I understand. After all he is one of the best artists in the industry and an all around awesome guy, so it makes sense that people hate him now.
 
The words in the article explain that there is an ongoing feud between Greg Rucka and Frank Cho. Frank has done 6 alternate covers for the book Greg was writing, and Greg had complained about every cover as too graphic or hypersexualized.

In Frank's defence he had not designed an alternate pornographic Wonder Woman outfit (he claims), Cho was drawing the same Wonder Woman as the lad drawing the insides of the book (Liam Sharpe) it's just unfortunate that when Frank Cho draws a Woman, she is too beautiful, and too sexy, so some one must be punished.

Liam said this in the advert to issue 1 before this hoo har started...

“Drawing Wonder Woman isn’t just drawing a comic, it’s drawing an icon—the most famous and recognizable female superhero in the world,” exclaims artist Liam Sharp. “To get to draw her in her 75th year, with a new storyline scribed by no less than Greg Rucka, makes this without a doubt the most important drawing gig of my 30 years in comics.”
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Greg's point of view is fine: I don't want people jerking off to my important comics about empowerment. Smut dilutes my message that women are valuable as people. (Not a quote. Obviously an exageration. Think Preacher from Footloose.)

Greg didn't hire Frank, and since he is the alternate cover artists, his covers are disconnected from the actual story and could be about any random thought that comes into Frank's brain, which is part of the reason Cho is angered that a writer has been given the powers of an editor to censor his vision without his permission or approval.

Oh, four of these books haven't come out yet.

Issue 1.

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Issue 2

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To sum up, Frank doesn't like being called an asshole, and Greg thinks that artists should know their place, in his shadow.

if Wonder Woman was a real person, Greg Rucka would be "body Shaming her" right now, but she isn't, so he isn't. Meanwhile Frank Cho is being the same person and artist that he's always been for 20 years.

Oh.

Last time someone complained about Frank's hypersexuality (I swear Emilia is in my brain. GET OUT!) he responded with a line of joke covers lampooning himself to calm the room down, and prove that he is an artist and not a pornographer. If Rucka had complained and complained about the first 5 covers, then that 5th of an inch of panties on cover 6, was obviously put there as a threat, a challenge, a joke or a f###k you Greg Rucka.

Sometimes a lacy slip is just a lacy slip, but this time, I think not.
 
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