By Mel Dyer
Imagine...
Etta Candy, sharp-shooting Texas rancher-girl!
Colonel Steve, ex-militaire coming out of World War II!
Dr. Minerva, weird, werecat lady scientist and...
Siegfried the Viking, dragon-slaying hero of German myth!
Now, imagine them joining William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman ..and over three-thousand savage, half-naked AMAZONS, ..red-hot from the Amazing Amazon's wild, time-leaping, empire-toppling adventures in the Golden Age of COMICS! That would've been a helluva leap into the Silver Age Fifties for this historically low-selling comic, ..if it had happened. Well, it didn't happen, ..but that is the kind of excitement, which the Michael W. Conrad/Becky Cloonan run - electrified by editor Brittany Holzherr, ..artists Travis Moore, Terry Dodson, Skylar Partridge, Amancay Nahuelpan, Tamara Bonvillain, Pat Brosseau and others ..set the stage for in mid-2021!
Now, the Wonder Woman comic has a dynamic regular CAST, interesting recurring characters and settings - Paradise Island, Checkmate Headquarters, Etta's townhouse, Steve's and Siggy's apartment, Georgetown - familiar elements, that fans have enjoyed in other comics for DECADES! In 2023, we must wonder how much requisite editorial bravado and good horse-sense exists to sustain the raw promise of this run. How much of its genius will Wonderfans be allowed to keep?
Want to KNOW WONDER WOMAN, the way I know Wonder Woman? You've got to get ALL THE WAY down to the... STAR-SPANGLED PANTIES!
Now that their world-building run, crackling with unparalleled potential and imagination, is over, ..I'd put Mike's and Becky's classic cast and premise against STAR TREK's or that of any other popular sci-fi work. It's ready for TV cartoon, livac TV shows and movies ..and for mass appeal (toys, games, pajamas, etc) in any of those arenas. From the dust of over half a century of storytelling, the Cloon'Rad duo and Team Amazon 2021-23 has handed Warner Brothers the makings of a bold, rousing age of CLASSIC fun and adventure ..for far more boys and girls, big and bigger, than who ever read Robert Kanigher's Wonder Woman comics!
I will always feel it's the SILVER AGE comic that should have been, coming out of World War II - one that might have rivalled Superman's, Green Lantern's or Marvel's Avengers or Fantastic Four...
A second Silver Age ..for WONDER WOMAN! How long will this one last?
Look alive, Kangaliers ..and CLICK HERE to check out the soulful, introspective finale, Wonder Woman #800! Also, click the links BELOW to check out the rest of Team Wonder 2021's sensational comics!
Wonder Woman 1: Afterworlds
Wonder Woman 2: Through a Glass Darkly
Wonder Woman 3: The Villainy of Our Fears
Wonder Woman 4: Revenge of the Gods
Trial of the Amazons
Future State: Wonder Woman (incl. Immortal Wonder Woman)
Edgar Miraculous (Mel) Dyer, without his fine, coyote-hatin' Goldiweiler, Kirby (now moved on to that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky) continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. He has been an active member of the Latino Culture Council of the Capitol Area (El Consejo de Cultura Latina – La Zona del Capitolio) and the Kiwanis Club of Capitol Hill.
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