Comic-Con 2007 start putting the first issue out. That way, you guys get your comics each month. (applause) Now I can’t control the people at DC Comics. I could finish the first issue and they could say, “Great! Solicit!” But my girlfriend came up with the most fantastic thing I’ve ever heard. My contract says that I have to deliver six issues, written, penciled and inked, of All Star Wonder Woman. It doesn’t say in what order. My girlfriend said I should do issues 2 through 6 and then give them the first issue when I’m done. That’s magnificent! I went over the contract with a lawyer friend of mine and he said, “You can actually hand them in in any order you want.” Are you changing Wonder Woman’s costume? I don’t think there’s a need when you’re doing something new to just be different. My approach to Wonder Woman on this project is kind of the way Bruce Timm [and] Paul Dini did Batman The Animated Series in the 90s: they took the best of everything that was fun about Batman. That’s what I’m doing with Wonder Woman. I get to tell her origin again, which I think is one of the most enjoyable aspects of her character. I’m going through every version of her sixty-year history and taking the best bits for myself. [Her costume] is going to look a lot like my covers. I think the guys at DC Direct will like my All Star Wonder Woman because there’s going to be enough costume changes to warrant a line of action figures. Talk about your redesign of Wonder Woman’s hair in the regular Wonder Woman series.
I was doing the covers of Wonder Woman for four and a half, five years. Walt Simonson came on the book for six months and one of Walt’s stories was that Wonder Woman went undercover, so she cut her hair and put on glasses. And I have never talked to more reporters in my life than the month Wonder Woman’s haircut premiered. One of them was all very Rona Barrett, gossipy. “So Wonder Woman’s haircut! What gave you the idea?” This was March 2003, and I actually said, “Didn’t we just invade another country? Isn’t there something slightly more newsworthy than the haircut of a 60-year-old cartoon character?” And she was like, “So, short hair?” What inspired you to draw her lasso like you did on those covers? When I was working on the first few Wonder Woman covers, I realized [she] runs around with a quart of over-cooked pasta hanging on her hip. That was really putting me to sleep, so I thought, I like art nouveau, and I studied art nouveau when I was doing Ghost for Dark Horse. So what if I did a cover where the wind was catching the lasso and it was creating an art nouveau shape behind her? And when I was doing it I thought, “Oh, yeah!” So I’ve never drawn the noodles on her hip ever again. Will other DC heroes appear in All Star Wonder Woman? Absolutely not. One of my main problems with Wonder Woman is that she only seems to be defined
Wonder Woman, Catwoman ©2007 DC Comics; Tomb Raider © & ™2007 EIDOS P.L.C.; Photo by Kevin Green
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