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NAKED WITH BUCK ROGERS: WONDER WOMAN, PULP FICTION AND THE NEW 52!

By Mel Dyer I think one of the reasons that it's so hard for modern writers to get  Wonder Woman  right, today, is because the genre of fiction that  Wonder Woman  creator,  William Moulton Marston,  crafted her from - adventure fiction or pulp fiction - is not, as common, in popular literature and film, as it used to be. I also think Cliff Chiang and Brian Azzarello, during DC Comics'  'New 52'  publishing event, came very close to rebooting the  Wonder Woman  comic to its roots, ..and I'll try to articulate why I do. Conceptually, Wonder Woman seems a much closer cousin to the heroes of  John Carter Of Mars, Buck Rogers, Doc Savage, Flash Gordon, Scorchy Smith, The Phantom, Jungle Jim, Hawkman, Doc Strange  and  Mandrake the Magician,  than she'll ever be to  Superman  and  Batman  ..or even to television's  Xena.  The problem with writing  Wonder Woman  is that most modern writers and readers really don't know anything about the pulp fiction genre tha