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Why is fighting zombies and protecting Pixie Do out of character for Wonder Woman? I stuck with her and enjoyed the hell out of the comic when she was fighting gorillas, then formed a gorilla army and fought Nazis.
They already stressed that its a soft reboot. Her origin isn't changing, it doesn't look like her character is changing (at least not from the nicely written Wonder Woman, she's devoid of personality sometimes. But look, smiles! Confidence! Not darkly brooding broods).
In another interview Azzarello said that the reason why its now a horror comic is mostly because if you look at Greek mythology, it isn't very nice. It can be pretty dark and gritty sometimes. What seems to be rebooting is her villains and settings more so than herself. I don't know who she's fighting in #1 besides zombies but in #2 she's fighting the goddess of discord.
They could have done this pretty badly. We could have started off on Paradise Island again and have Steve visit AGAIN and they could have done what the TV show planned to do and have her pine for Steve "the way Carrie pines for Big". You know, so the kiddies can relate. Because thats all wimmin do.
But no, now her enemies are scary and weird looking and she's fighting in horror settings. Its not rated T for Teen, so I'm not really worried like I am about Catwoman's potential torture porn. I might be thinking in manga terms but really I just expect xxxholic levels of horror.
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