Wonder Woman Gets a New Look

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I'm a comics fan from way back, and while I haven't really kept current, I'm sure that one thing remains true: major changes to major characters are rarely ever permanent.  Wonder Woman may be in need of a makeover, but this is hardly her first.

Originally Wondy wore a costume similar to the one we're familiar with, a bustier, tiara, bracelets, a golden lasso, and star-spangled bottoms.  But the original bottoms were a skort thing, and it didn't last.  The tiara would change shape, ditto the bracelets. Her boots would get kind of floppy, turn into laced sandals, back to boots, sometimes with heels, sometimes not. She'd always be recognizable as Wonder Woman, but could sometimes look like she was wearing granny panties, and sometimes look like she ought to be working a pole down at The Itchy Kitty.

The eagle on her busier changed a lot, usually looking like a mutant chicken, sometimes not even distinguishable as a bird.  For copyright reasons, the bird was replaced with a WW symbol that was great for logos, but got kind of distorted on her boobage.  Different artists would do different things, like putting a bird head on the point of the W, or drawing extra stuff on it.  Her belt was especially problematic, as it was a "girdle" of one of the goddesses, but it morphed from an ugly white thing to an ugly yellow thing, It would eventually become metal, with ridiculously large, lethal-looking points.  Far worse were the Wonder-britches. Long after abandoning the skort and later the bicycle shorts, horny artists would get it down to a thong or loincloth. And Wondy's boobs changed shape and size so often, she could rival Pam Anderson.

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So now, they've put Wonder Woman into a more sensible outfit. And I'm sure it will change here and there a lot, until she inevitably gets back into the more familiar one again.  They've also gone the "reboot" route, wrecking the timeline, and thus every single crossover she's had with other characters.  That'll tick off fans as much as it pleases them, until they put it all back the way it was.  Given the price of comics these days, I'm really glad I don't collect them any more. I'll make one further prediction:  if the Wonder Woman movie ever gets made, she's going to look a whole lot more like Lynda Carter than this current version.

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Wonder Woman gets a new costume. We're unsure about the jacket.



I have a confession to make: I’m a shameless geek for new superhero outfits. At least once per decade, every iconic comic book hero will get a new look, usually to signal a massive storyline shakeup, a new creative team, and/or a desperate bid for cultural relevance. Witness electro-Superman, Invisible Woman post-stripperobics, and The Scarlet Spider (a.k.a., Spider-Man for the Torn Hoodie crowd.) The new outfits never last long, but they do provide an intriguing, time capsule-ready look at the fashion (and the silliness) of their cultural moment. So no matter what you think about the new Wonder Woman outfit, we can all agree that this costume change proves definitively that 2010 is cooler than 1968. . .

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