Quote:

---

Originally posted by Peulsar5:
It'll last for a while then she'll go back. Its happened before back in the early/mid 90s

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Zeek:
There are very few super heroes I can think of with practical outfits.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by boris:
Tights are not pants

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Storymark:
I like it. Her old outfit was a bit on the ridiculous side. And they're priming the audience for a movie - and they're not likely to do the old outfit in a movie.

Plus, it's Joe Straczynski and Jim Lee behind the new suit, and I'm a fan of both.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:

Oooo, tightpants!

No major complaints. I'd add more color to the pants, though. Maybe with some large faded stars.

---

Quote:

---

Do they revamp the iconic costumes of Superman, Batman or the Flash? No. They may tinker with minor things, but they remain unchanged.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Do they revamp the iconic costumes of Superman, Batman or the Flash? No.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Do they revamp the iconic costumes of Superman

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by MsA:
I just want to know how putting pants ON somehow makes her look trampy

It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Peulsar5:

Quote:

---

Originally posted by MsA:
I just want to know how putting pants ON somehow makes her look trampy

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

---

EXCELLENT point. I don't mind the costume, but the retcon stuff does. I don't think messing with the origin of one of DC's "Big Three" (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) is a good idea. These were the three characters that kept the company afloat during the lean years of the 40s and 50s when comics lost popularity or just got strange (read some Batmans from the late 50s) and most of the minor characters were just guests or back up stories. When the comic book resurgance began in the 60s, most of the dc characters got completely redone-The Flash went from Jay Garrack, Green Lantern became Hal Jordan etc. But Superman was always the strange visitor from Krypton raised by the Kents, Batman was the masked playboy avenging his parents, and Wonder Woman was always the amazon princess sent to America. Minor details would change after the first Crisis (the only good one in my opinion) but the rest remained the same. As been pointed out earlier in the thread, they sometimes make radical changes for a particular storyline that might last as long as a year, but eventually they loop back around to their roots.

---

Quote:

---

So Diana's task now is to a) find out where, how and why the timeline was changed, b) who did it, c) if it can be undone, and d) stay ahead of the forces trying to kill her while e) helping as many of the surviving Amazons stay alive as possible, since they too are still being hunted.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Storymark:
You realize that Didio hold exactly as much power in the company as they guy who designed this new outfit?

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Cybersnark:

Quote:

---

He's the one who had final say on bringing back Hal and Barry, and he even considered "fixing" Barbara Gordon and putting her back in the Batgirl suit before deciding that Oracle was a stronger character than Batgirl-I had been.

That said, however, the man definitely knows a good story when he sees one. If he's throwing his support behind this, it means he thinks it'll work. . . but eventually, Diana will return to her iconic roots.

-----
We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

---

I get the feeling maybe Lee is there, with his more modern sensibility, to balance Didio's classic focus.

And I've no doubt that the origin will return - as I said, the story seems designed to bring it back to that anyway. But the costume I think will stay, or at least not be the old one, for a quite a while - especially if a move gets made.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Storymark:
The full on retcon seems a bit overboard, but I don't read the monthlies anyway, and either the story will be good enough to justify running with it, or it'll bomb and they'll re-retcon (de-retcon??) it right back out the door.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Storymark:
Well, yeah, they have. Superman Blue/Red. Armored Azrael/Batman (and many variations to the Bat-suit). And a key element is that those characters are wearing at least semi-practical outfits, and not one just a smidge away from lingerie.

Having a WW that looks like someone bedazzled a Baywatch costume isn't going to do much to give the character credibility in the modern age.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Cybersnark:
[

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by BrownCoat1:


Yes, and where are those costumes now? Defunct, gone, because fan outcry and fans dropping titles drove creative teams back to the iconic costumes that have been around for decades, in most cases longer than readers have been alive.

---