![]() ![]() US network CW was developing a WW series, called "Amazon", but this was pronounced dead in the water in January.īut things are looking up. A staggeringly naff 2011 NBC TV show pilot, starring Adrianne Palicki, never got picked up. Many still mourn the shelving of Buffy creator Joss Whedon's mooted movie back in 2007. Given the sheer volume of superhero movies now, grumbling about the lack of a female-led blockbuster is growing ever louder. She may retain her symbolism as an icon for female power – and Guevara-Flanagan suggests she blazed the trail for strong women characters from Ripley in Alien to Buffy – but WW herself is pretty much reduced to a kitsch image emblazoned on lunchboxes and make-up bags. But in the wider world, she's sidelined: without TV or film adaptations, she becomes merely the fancy-dress shop outfit of choice, the token girly superhero. ![]() Wonder Woman continues to feature in ever-more complicated plotlines in comic books, and as part of the Justice League alongside Batman, Superman and Green Lantern. A series of spy-fi, weapon-wielding, martial-arts adventures follows. Not that her fight-for-justice days are entirely behind her: now going by the earthworld name of Diana Prince, she meets a martial-arts master called I-Ching, who trains her to kick butt without any mystical powers. Instead, she runs a mod fashion boutique and wears things such as white leather jumpsuits and Mary Quant-esque mini-dresses. First up, Wonder Woman loses her magical powers (and that cute costume!). Things get even stranger in the so-called Silver Age of comics. Female characters are to be downplayed in general, and the WW comics begin to focus more on her soppy romance with Steve.ġ960s: fashion boutiques and martial arts Following a Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearing in 1954, the comic-book industry undertakes a voluntary code of conduct that rules out the more violent, and weirder, elements of the artform. Wonder Woman comes under particular fire: Wertham suggests the comics are promoting lesbianism. In 1954, the German-American psychiatrist Frederic Wertham publishes a polemic, "Seduction of the Innocent", suggesting that comic books are partly to blame for juvenile delinquency. ![]()
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