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Superman + Wonder Woman = <3 In ‘Justice League’ #12 [Kissy Kissy]

By Andy Khouri

DC Comics has announced via its sister company Entertainment Weekly that a future issue of Justice League will see Superman and Wonder Woman begin a super romance. The move is in contrast to how the heroes have traditionally been portrayed, with Superman paired with Terran female Lois Lane and Wonder Woman with puny humans Batman or Steve Trevor, but of course those and numerous other pieces of DC lore were thrown out when the line rebooted almost a year ago. Writer Geoff Johns told EW that the development is not intended as merely a temporary attention-grabber but rather a substantive change to the ongoing characterization of the popular heroes, with artist Jim Lee adding, “Hopefully this will raise a lot of eyebrows. We welcome the watercooler chatter.”

A romantic relationship between Wonder Woman and Superman is not without precedent. The couple notably got it super-on in Kingdom Come and The Dark Knight Strikes Again, but both of those stories are considered non-canonical in spite of the fact that they’ve been read by vastly more people than the overwhelming majority of every canonical Superman Wonder Woman story ever published.

But August's Justice League #12 is part of DC’s New 52 initiative, which last year voided official Superman and Wonder Woman continuity and with it both characters’ long established relationships with their previous partners. This is a fact seemingly lost to a number of DC readers, who’ve already begun tearing their virtual hair out over this announcement on Twitter and elsewhere in response to Johns’ remark, “This is the new status quo.”

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