At least she doesn't look like a Vegas stripper anymore.

Yesterday DC Comics announced that Wonder Woman would be receiving a new costume as part of a new storyline beginning with issue 600 of her solo series. (*Costume review here.) Fan reaction seems to be predictably negative.

Incoming writer J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) took to DC’s Source Blog and spoke out about the changes he’s making to Wonder Woman and why he feels they may be necessary.

In his own words:

“So my mission statement going into Wonder Woman was real simple: If we were to design her today, without any prior history…what would she look like?

“This is a character that is interesting enough and compelling enough to merit being in the top twenty books at minimum…so why was she languishing? The reason, I felt, was that she’d concretized over the years, had turned into this really cool Porsche that people kept in the garage because they were afraid of denting it rather than going flat-out on the open road. She had become, for lack of a better word, stuffy. She became the mom of the girl next door you wanted to date.

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