ROBERT VALLEY’S ANIMATED WONDER WOMAN AND THE MANY MODES OF THE AMAZON [OPINION]
By Andy Khouri
Wonder Woman is not a character like Bruce Wayne or Peter Parker, whose authors are beholden to unbreakable tenets of a core mythology. Murdered parents, a doomed planet, an estranged sidekick, a science experiment gone wrong — Wonder Woman is bound to nothing so discrete.
Wonder Woman is something more. An icon. A spirit. A totem. An elemental force of strength, beauty and majesty through which all manners of stories can be expressed, from the pioneering feminism of William Moulton Marsten’s original comics to the mythology-tinged superheroics of George Pérez in the 1980s to the dark urban fantasy of Azzarello and Chiang and to Valley’s very funny and stunning ’70s-styled badass. Narratively these visions have little in common. Aesthetically they have nothing in common. And yet they are all indelibly Wonder Woman.
What matters: A land of only women. A powerful princess. A man who needs her help.
What doesn’t matter: Everything else. Okay maybe an invisible vehicle matters.
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