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With a fresh pixilated - villain and a novel position quo , Wonder Womanhas once again become one of the lodestone of the DC Universe . onward of May’sWonder Woman#9 , serial publication author Tom King sat down with Screen Rant to verbalise all things Diana , including what sets her apart from Batman and Superman , the office of the Wonder Girls , the inherent gleefulness of Trinity ’s backup history , and much more .
Wonder Woman ’s status quo was revamp in fall 2023withWonder Woman#1 by King and Daniel Sampere , an issue that not only brought Diana back to the forefront of the DCU but introduce a figure of raw characters and factor to Wonder Woman lore — including the chilling raw baddie do it only as the Sovereign . As ofWonder Woman#9 , Diana has been captured by this scoundrel — the only interrogation is if she ’ll survive his psychological straining .
WONDER WOMAN # 9 ( 2024 )
Release Date :
May 21st , 2024
writer :
Tom King
Artists :
Daniel Sampere , Belén Ortega
Cover Artist :
Daniel Sampere
Variant Covers :
Custom Image by Kate O’Donoghue (from Daniel Sampere and Stjepan Šeijić)
Julian Totino Tedesco , Stjepan Šejić
reunify WITH STEVE TREVOR ! The ultimate test ! As Sovereign ’s grip on Wonder Woman ’s psyche tightens , she retreats into the arms of Steve Trevor . Will their love for the ages examine winning over the web of Amazon lies weaved in Man ’s World ? Plus , Trinity lets the Canis familiaris out !
As promised by the issue summary , Wonder Woman#9 not only includesthe Sovereign ’s villainous plans , but also a " reunion " with Diana ’s longtime ally and historic love life sake , Steve Trevor . King talk with Screen Rant about that Romance language — but also about Diana ’s novel villains , what it entail to listen to sports fan , the influence of comic strips , and so much more . record on for the full interview below , edit out lightly for clarity .
Wonder Woman#1 by King , Sampere , Tomeu Morey , and Clayton Cowles was an substantive launch during 2023 ’s Dawn of DC first step , which is now leading to 2024’sAbsolute Powerevent beginning this July .
Batman may be the Dark Knight , but Wonder Woman is by far the Justice League ’s darkest member , and this bloody-minded quote proves it .
Wonder WomanWriter Tom King Gives Diana Her Own Mission
Why Is the Sovereign the Perfect Wonder Woman Villain?
Screen Rant : I really want to plunge into the juicy clobber flop away , which for me is the villain — is the Sovereign . Who , of course , is the private king of the United States , which is absolutely violent . It ’s a really radical estimation with a lot of inescapable allegorical weight . And then we also have AXE [ Amazon Extradition Entity ] , launch by the US government andled by Sergeant Steel . So this book is not timid about depict the government figure as the Hero of Alexandria ’s enemy . Can you peach a act about why these characters in particular — so the Sovereign , Sergeant Steel , and these entity — make for the perfect Wonder Woman villains ? And also why these fictional character strike such a chord as villains for this exceptional cultural moment ?
Wonder Woman is against the organisation . She ’s rebellious , she stands up .
Tom King : I mean it comes from just , in the beginning , thinking of trying to tell apart Diana from Clark and Bruce . And having compose Batman extensively and Superman quite a morsel , it ’s hard on paper to be like : what makes her different ? Why is she somehow — you know , she does all the correct things . So does Superman . She never gives up . Neither does Batman . What makes her different from those two figures ? And makes her discrete and nerveless and relevant today ?
And my solvent , and locomote back and understand her comic strip over the years , is she ’s a rebel in a path they are n’t in . In some means , Batman is about jurist . He ’s about enforcing the law . He works with the cops . He ’s about that . And Superman , who I utterly adore , and he ’s my favorite part in comics , I recollect Superman is for the status quo on some point . There is some part of him that is boring and stodgy , which is tremendous ! It ’s why I love him .
But Wonder Woman is against the establishment . She ’s disaffected , she stand up . She does n’t desire to apply the organisation . She wants to make the system well for other hoi polloi . And I think that distinguishes her . Out of the Trinity , that afford her a freestanding mission . So when I first conceived this book , I wanted to put her against an authority . I wanted to show how her values could crow over values that were being forced upon other citizenry against their will . And so , using the old tactic of the United States government standing in for that ultimate authorisation was where we start , and that ’s where the Sovereign add up from and AXE and all of that stuff .
As to why it ’s relevant for today , you experience — I say this as a guy who spent the first one-half of his life operate for the government . go out my kids and one of the things I most admire is that they do n’t accept what ’s given . That they desire to create a proficient world . That they want to constantly question the way thing were set up . And I admire that in them , and I think that ’s a little flake of Wonder Woman in them .
TK : Comic books , especially superhero funnies , they ’re an foreigner ’s spiritualist . They ’re made by multitude and for mass who do n’t fit into the regular ecesis . It ’s what I ’ve always fuck , and that ’s why I ’m always online calling people nerds , because I ’m so lofty of the byname by now . I mean , we now have cool kids , but we were n’t always the cool kid ! We were the isolated , we were the estranged , and this is our spiritualist . It ’s an alternative mass medium , it ’s a ill-affected sensitive , and to say that Wonder Woman , who ’s always been the most prominent distaff superhero in that sensitive , embraces that ethos — I suppose it ’s a innate fit .
The Wonder Girls Take Center Stage in Wonder Woman’s New Story
Tom King Reveals Why He Decided to Include Donna, Cassie, and Yara
SR : I love that you brought up your kids , and recall about the tyke who are reading these books as well , and that form of rebelliousness of Wonder Woman as role modeling — because , simply as a fan , beyond my role in this professional capacity , I love that the Wonder Girls are part of this .
TK : Of course !
My business as a comic - book author is not to deny joy . My job as a laughable - book writer is to give you joy .
SR : My teenage self is just overjoyedto see the Wonder Girls ! You really made a degree to re-introduce them as crucial corroborate characters in Diana ’s story in particular . So why do these three women , Donna and Cassie and Yara , matter so much to Diana ’s story ? Both the one you ’re assure now in this tally and also Wonder Woman lore more broadly .
TK : I should admit at the start that that was not my plan .
I wrote a small bible at the origin of thing I did n’t want to be in the book . I put , like : no swords , no Supreme Being , those kinds of things . I wanted to ground it . And one of the affair I put was no Wonder Girls . Because I wanted this to be a very Wonder Woman - focused al-Qur’an . I thought sometimes her title had meander from making her the title role , and I need every line pointing to her .
I just saw the fans ’ reaction and how much they need these characters to be in this Christian Bible , and they desire to see these relationship . And sometimes even a author as chesty , as unintelligent as me can accommodate that they made an computer error in their Word of God . I was like : “ Oh , you know what ? Why am I swimming against the lunar time period ? ”
My chore as a comic - book writer is not to deny pleasure . My job as a comic - leger author is to give you delight . And set them in the book really bring an ingredient of joyfulness to the [ fandom ] . It ’s incredibly exciting to write . So that was really a fan - driven decision . That was people writing and saying let ’s see the Wonder Girls and me being convinced by their incredible arguments . I like to think that I can make a dependable argument , but I also like to think that I ’m someone who can change their mind and be convinced . And I was positive that they were veracious .
SR : Not to stir the pot , then , but after you ’ve spent some time writing the persona , do you have a favorite Wonder Girl ?
Wonder Woman is the superhero identity of Diana, Princess of the Amazons. Created on the island of Themyscira, Wonder Woman is a super-powered demi-goddess with extreme physical strength who utilizes magical gifts (like her famous Lasso of Truth) to defeat her foes. As mighty as her fellow heroes Superman and the Justice League, Wonder Woman is unmatched in her compassion and virtue.
TK : Ugh , you are conjure up the pot !
SR : [ Laughs ]
TK : They each have a place in my heart . I got ta say , Cassie is just the most fun to write , believably . I do n’t know , she just jumps out of the Sir Frederick Handley Page at me . As a fanboy who gets to do the business he jazz for a living , Cassie is kind of a fangirl who ’s doing the job [ she be intimate ] for a living . I care that part of her .
But I ’m not saying she ’s my favorite ! I ’m say she ’s really fun to write . That ’s all . I ’m not trying to start . I ’m not stirring the pot .
SR : I ’ll make a point to emphasize that . [ Laughs ]
TK : Yes !
SR : But Trinity also recently madeher entry as Wonder Girl , technically , in the backup man —
TK : A next Wonder Girl ! She ’s call for no one ’s crown .
Trinity — also known as Lizzie Prince — is the future daughter of Wonder Woman , though her lineage has lately been complicated by revelation in the pages of King and Sampere’sWonder Woman . Trinity debut inWonder Woman#800 in a curt story by King , Sampere , Morey , and Cowles . fan can capture up with some of her escapade as collect in the recentTrinity Special#1 , available now from DC Comics .
SR : Yeah , incisively ! I mean , she ’s been Robin now , she ’s been Wonder Girl , she ’s been Trinity . I love that we’rereallymoving through prison term . [ Both laugh ] She ’s been through a raft .
TK : [ Laughs ] She ’s been through enough !
Tom King Discusses the Influence of Comic Strips on New Wonder Woman Character Trinity
How HasPeanutsShaped Wonder Woman’s Daughter?
SR : I intend , the backups with Belén Ortega have been an downright joy to read every month , especially the tonal equalizer between that story and the natural process / thriller material run on in the master tale . So beyond simply , like , writing the fibre — Lizzie , Jon [ Kent ] , and Damian [ Wayne ] — what ’s it like , as a author , write sense of humor aboard and aright after the action / thriller stuff ? What ’s so funny about these character ?
TK : What ’s it like ? It ’s the best ! I can not tell you . The weeks I get to write — because I do n’t compose the Wonder Woman story and then write the backups . I write the musical accompaniment all at once . I drop a line three backup at a time . And so the week I get to be on backup duty are just super fun weeks .
I have a 10 twelvemonth - old and a 14 year - old , my tyke , and it ’s the one time they care about what I do for a livelihood , because they love those stories . Wwe talk about it at the table , and I gear jokes to them , and they ’re like , “ No daddy , that ’s not good , ” or “ Let ’s do this ! ” And if I ’m making them laugh , I hump it ’s sound . Yeah , it ’s my favourite . It ’s literally my favorite writing workweek of the yr . And Belén Ortega just kills it on that , everything I ’m fetch her .
I grew up a huge comic funnies fan . I in all likelihood read mirthful strips before I read comics , just pass the newspaper in the morning , because that ’s how old I am . So this is like , you know , my reach out to masses like Watterson and Schultz and Breathed , the comic strips of my juvenility that really just made me laugh . It ’s a chance to flex that muscularity .
Because I write these sour , sad comic where everyone ’s crying and committing suicide all the clock time . So it ’s just fun to publish that other side of what I be intimate about this medium .
SR : Yeah , it ’s kind of peculiar : last month , we had the panels of the Sovereign pouring wine-colored on Diana ’s headspring , and then the accompaniment like [ gag ] , straightaway after that , it ’s rip - roaring laugh . It ’s a funny two - sides - of - the - same - coin .
TK : [ Laughs ] It is a weird moral force ! But I intend , we always say comics are for everybody , but then I write these comic that are , you recognize — they ’re really for people who screw comics but are looking to dissect them and reckon for huge themes . But I also desire to compose comics that you may pick off the shelf , like [ Diary of a ] wimpish Kid . I think it ’s of import .
I ’m jealous of everyone who work in comics . This is me being jealous of Dog Man , basically .
Dog Manby Dav Pilkey , a series of pictorial novels aimed at a very young demographic , is systematically one of the well - selling comics in the industriousness .
Wonder Woman’s Romance with Steve Trevor Is Reignited in Upcoming Issue
Why Is Romance an Essential Part of Wonder Woman’s Story?
It ’s treating Wonder Woman as a human being , as a individual who be in the world , and people who exist in the world fall in love and both derive joy and sadness from that .
SR : In the same sort of genre of vein , it ’s also no mystery that you love romance in your stories , from theBatmanrun , to evenyour work onLove Everlasting[with Elsa Charretier ] . And thenWonder Woman#9 , which will be come out in a few weeks , explores a bit of Diana ’s relationship with Steve Trevor .
TK : That ’s the uncanny one . Thank you for reading . [ Laughs ]
SR : Yeah , it was definitely a trip . [ Both laugh ] It took me a second to really estimate out what was occur . But what ’s the function ofromance in Wonder Woman ’s storyand character ? Especially as , in this run , you ’re kind of establishing her as almost stubbornly main ? What does romanticism have to do with it ?
TK : I mean , it ’s a ripe question . Kelly Sue DeConnick has a great production line that I quote all the time . mass require her , “ How do you write cleaning lady so well ? ” And she suppose , “ The first thing I do is pretend they ’re human . ” And I think , just to be awake , for many , many people , romance is part of your life . With whoever that married person is , the person you find who you be intimate becomes a part of your existence and your somebody . And I call back to make Wonder Woman a complete character and a complete mortal is to give her that dimension .
Not to make it all of her ! Because there are times in chronicle where [ her deed of conveyance has ] been treated as very much a romance comic or something . That ’s not all of who Diana is , but it ’s part of her . It ’s a part of her , and it ’s right at her origin . Because , you know , part of her chronicle set out with Steve crashing that planing machine and afford her world . So to me , it ’s part of what Kelly Sue [ says ] . It ’s treating Wonder Woman as a human being , as a soul who exist in the world , and people who be in the humankind come down in love and both derive joyousness and sadness from that .
Wonder Woman’s Iconic Costumes Take the Spotlight in Stellar Art
Tom King Celebrates the Artists Who Bring Wonder Woman to Life
SR : I have one last fun question for you . Hopefully it ’s a fun one ! But everyone who ’s been enshroud Wonder Woman at Screen Rant , we ’ve been really loving thecostume edition cover by Julian Totino Tedesco . They ’re just awesome . I love see at them every month .
TK : [ Laughs ] Yeah , they are . We have unbelievable var. on this book ! cry out out to our editor Brittany Holzherr , who does that stuff and nonsense . It ’s unbelievable .
SR : Yeah , great artwork , and Daniel Sampere has been doing unbelievable work .
TK : Uh , Daniel ’s the good ! Blows it out of the park every Clarence Day . Yeah , I just saw pages derive in from today . Incredible . He ’s doing Cheetah pages ? Oh my god .
SR : It ’s really beautiful . Do you have a preferred Wonder Woman costume from her history ?
TK : Do I have a favorite ? Oh , I should say Daniel ’s , because I think Daniel ’s is sodding . Yeah , no , I ’ll suck up to my artist and say he freaking apprehend it .
I do n’t cognise ! Do you know what really last into my stupid caput ? Do you want to know what go into my stupid top dog ?
SR : I absolutely desire to know what goes into your stupid heading . [ Laughs ]
The cover ofWonder Woman#191 by Mike Sekowsky is cover - date September 1970 .
TK : I see Mike Sekowsky in the ‘ 70 doing the karate - chop mod Wonder Woman . I do n’t know ! I did a comic book with Doc Shaner , and [ we ] used that turnout of her doing that late-60s mod thing , and I think it was just absolutely delightful .
I like them all , but alright : Daniel ’s for the actual lawsuit , but I do have a little part of me who loves mod Wonder Woman .
SR : There ’s nothing else like it !
TK : There really is n’t .
Thanks again to Tom King for speaking to Screen Rant about all thing Wonder Woman , from Trinity ’s future adventure to Diana ’s 1970s mod lifestyle . For fan still living in the present , Wonder Woman#9is available May 21st from DC Comics .
Wonder Woman is the superhero identity of Diana , Princess of the Amazons . Created on the island of Themyscira , Wonder Woman is a super - powered demi - goddess with extreme physical military posture who utilize magical gift ( like her far-famed Lasso of Truth ) to defeat her foes . As mightily as her fellow heroes Superman and the Justice League , Wonder Woman is peerless in her compassion and virtue .
First appearing in 1941 , Wonder Woman is the premiere female superhero of DC comics . Working alongside the likes of Batman , Superman , and other DC submarine sandwich , she has been a basic in comics and superhero movies for decades . Whether struggle unaccompanied or as a appendage of the Justice League , Wonder Woman never rests in her missionary work against evilness .
