I really have two major problems with the DC Reboot. The first one is Wonder Woman’s pants… where the hell did they go? Let’s pause and look at the cover to Wonder Woman #1 with pants and without…
Did you take that all in? Good, now let’s look at Justice League #1 with pants and without…
Someone tell me why they hate pants on Wonder Woman so much? Why does she need to expose her body to unnecessary harm when fucking Aqua mangets pants? If anyone shouldn’t have pants it should be Aquaman because he LIVES IN THE OCEAN! How many swimmers do you know that wear pants in the pool? None. People that are drunk and fall into pools are they only people in the world that wear pants while swimming and it’s not even by choice. So why does everyone hate WW’s pants? And why did DC give in to the “No Pants” hype and start airbrushing the flesh tone on her? It just seems like a company that’s rebooting everything and throwing fan loyalties into the wind… shouldn’t care about a portion of the fan base that doesn’t like pants on a fictional character.
It’s not that every female character needs pants, but let’s be honest here… DC is trying to pull a Marvel here and make their characters based a little more in today’s reality and that means pants. How many homemade superhero costumes do you see made out of swimsuits? Again, if the lack of pants make sense then by all means take them off, but you wouldn’t take Catwoman’s pants would you?
“Sorry Cats, but we need those pants.”
“What, why?”
“Well, even though they protect your legs and make sure that you can get through tight spots in order to steal and fulfill your duty as a cat-burglar… the fans hate them.”
“So even though there’s a possibility of me receiving a major injury that would otherwise be minor due to wearing pants… you’re going to take them anyways?”
“Yes… they hate your pants.”
I know that they’re fictional characters, but in this day and age there is just something silly about one of the most iconic female superheroes running around in a one piece swimsuit. Agree? Disagree? And why the hell didn’t Gail Simone champion for her keeping the trousers?
The second bit of business is this variant cover by David Finch for Justice League #1.
Pants or no pants we can all agree on two things here. Wonder Woman’s posed like an idiot and definitely uncomfortably. Again, powerful woman standing like a retarded model… why? You can check out this awesome look at male characters in the same pose. The other disappointment, why does everyone’s costume look exactly as it did before the reboot with the exception of WW? And what happened to their youthful appearance that Jim Lee worked so hard on establishing?
That’s got to be my biggest problem with the reboot is that there’s no consistency in the art. Granted every artist is different, but DC needed to lay down the law like they did everything else and make sure that they’re earlier 20’s super team didn’t come out looking like…old people. Lastly, on a personal note, I like David Finch’s interior art, but he has never had an eye for covers and this just proves it. Look at all of this X-Men covers for Marvel and tell me what’s special about them. Variants are supposed to be cooler than the normal cover not just rarer and frankly he doesn’t hold a torch to Lee’s cover.
I know a lot of this is going to come off whinny and frankly I don’t care because I’m not really upset by this, I find most of it curious and would love to see the inner workings at DC when some of these decisions were made. One thing I’ll give Marvel is that they always seem to have one person that everything actually gets run through and that’s something that DC needs to accept and hopefully is the next page that they’ll steal from the book of Marvel.