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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 wr...

THE OFFICIAL WONDABUNGA MARDI GRAS COSPLAY PICK FOR 2022... "SIEGFRIED the DRAGON SLAYER" Wonder Woman's got a new, swashbuckling friend, from THOR's hometown, Asgard - Siegfried, ex-husband of her Valkyrie enemy, Gudra, ..and DC Comics' new Viking Avenger! Cosplay away! (Photomanip: Travis Moore art)

  By Mel Dyer I think it's a shame that Geoff Johns didn't give an Orion/Diana partnership, a chance.   Conceptually, this worked for me, better than the stale Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor sandwich that we fans have been choking on, since comic's Golden Age ... Sty-ana? In  Brian Azzarello's  hands (for fans, certainly not the most trusted hands, at the time he was writing  Wonder Woman ), Orion was Willie Garvin to Diana's Modesty Blaise, who (btw) is also a Greek princess...nothing overtly sexual, between them. We don't really know, if they're boinking. Like Diana and Orion, they're  companions  - does it matter, if they're messing around?   Let people use their bloody imaginations... If we still  have  those. Wonder Woman meets Orion, in DC Comics' New 52 experiment! (Cliff Chiang art) The friendship between the Amazing Amazon and Jack 'King' Kirby's  New Gods  hero, Orion, started with a guardrail orientation of how to tr...

Do you know how long I've been pestering LYNDA CARTER to do an album of very  slinky songs?  She's so good at them, I couldn't have been the only one. There must have been a contest. Anyway, kangaliers... Danny's All Star Joint. 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! Edgar Miraculous (Mel) Dyer, without his fine, coyote-hatin' Goldiweiller, 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.

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Little girls have a lot of incentive to identify with superheroic men... Batgirl, Supergirl, Huntress, Hawkgirl, She-Hulk, ..while boys have very little encouragement, identifying with Wonder Woman. Well, it wasn't always that way. Wonder Woman with blingy, Trekxy ride-or-die, Andros of Arcturus (New Adventures Of Wonder Woman, CBS Television) The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman TV show gave us (then) boys, an Andros of Arcturus to imagine ourselves, as! He wasn't as physical or the hardcase that Jack Kirby's cosmic enforcer,  Orion, was, but had some pretty awesome zapping powers and a nifty silver, Star Treky outfit, ..and we thought it was very cool, that he was from outer space, wa-aay back in the Star Wars heyday of 1977. As I recall, the first Andros - General Andros - to join Diana's adventures was father of a second Andros. Andros 2.0 was portrayed, by a much younger and studlier Dack Rambo  - at the time, a young actor, who...

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer I am too long, from Mars. I want to go  back. I love George Perez, as an artist and a comic book legend, ..but, his post-Crisis, Diet Vader,  Ares,  just isn't doing it, for me, anymore, as a Number One Badguy (one of three) for Wonder Woman. I miss  Mars.  I want Mars, back. There was a time, in the Forties, when Wonder Woman's most enduring enemy, the Greek god of war, went by his Roman name,  Mars,  ..and ran his divine business out of a network of smoke-ridden, fire-belching, metal fortresses, on the surface of the fabled  Red Planet,  named for him. His cosmic agents, his  'Court'  of War -  Duke of Deception, Earl of Greed, Lord Conquest  and  General Destruction  - were little more, than armored buffoons, back then, and were never particularly awesome or terrifying, ..but, they were every bit, as ugly and weird, as the  Joker.  They existed in a fiery, steampunky world - ...

What would the lost, unfinished series bible for a new Wonder Woman show look like? TITLE: IMMORTAL WONDER WOMAN (SERIES BIBLE) [COMPLETE] By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Introduction: This series, using some characters inspired by 'Wonder Woman' comics in 2020-2022 and the award-winning New 52, returns the Immortal Amazon to her original genre roots, as fantasy/paranormal adventurer, ..like TV's Higlander or Lara Croft (Tomb Raider). Think Xena: Warrior Princess and Highlander: The Series had a superhero baby, ..with the friendship between Xena and farmgirl, Gabrielle, at the center of the story - except Gabrielle is fat and black, and there's budding romance, with Col. Steve, ..on the side. Structure and Tone: Episodes will run, as three-act teleplays, introducing an existential threat to the human world ..AND a comedic or dramatic situation, between Diana, Etta and supporting characters (Steve, Mala, Siggy, etc). Most episodes are linear, but, stories can also use POV, mock...