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Sunday Trending Topics: Grant Morrison Talks Wonder Woman

The discussion over Grant Morrison's take on Wonder Woman is probably best left to the BC forum thread, but I do think that implying that the character dropped in popularity after William Moulton Marston stopped writing her is leaving out a bit of context.  Marston's last script work on the title was with Sensation Comics #34 in 1944 — near the height of the Golden Age of comics (Marston died in 1947).  One can plausibly say that many superhero characters dropped in popularity a short time after that (so much so that the industry was transitioning to crime and horror by the late 1940s).  Indeed, I've always taken it as a sign of the character's popularity that the Wonder Woman title itself survived continuously through this period and into the Silver Age, while countless major characters such as Green Lantern, Flash, and Captain America were mothballed for a time.  I'm going to have to take a look at Supergods to see if Morrison elaborates on this matter.

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Grant Morrison Plans To Bring The Sex Back To Wonder Woman

Morrison said that you can take the violence out of the original concept of Superman- all the drop-kicking bad guys into the ocean, which would basically kill them anywa, or you can take the gun out of early Batman, and these characters remain essentially the same. But you can't take the sex out of Wonder Woman. That version of the character died with Marston in the 1940s and she hasn't recovered her popularity since.

The New Wonder Woman Is Not A Superhero Comic, It's A Horror Comic

"It's not going to be a superhero book. I can guarantee you that, it's not a superhero book. It's a horror book."

The Baltimore Comic Con DC Panel That Wasn't

The crowd went silent as a convention staffer came up to the front of the hall and announced that the panel had been canceled. There was a quick murmur among the fans in attendance before a woman shouted, "Why?" The convention staffer simply told the crowd that nobody involved with the panel could make it, so the panel was canceled.

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Watch If You Dare – Embarrassing Trailer For Hellraiser: Revelations

Revelations is the ninth installment in the Hellraiser franchise, following a series of direct-to-video sequels that haven't really been good since Scott Derrickson's Hellraiser: Inferno. The absence of Doug Bradley, not to mention the far-south-of-a-million budget, speaks volumes and both are extremely noticeable in this trailer.

Monsters University Character Art Reveals The Younger, Slimmer Mike And Sully

While there's no Woodward and Bernstein prequel practically possible, and Butch and Sundance the Early Years didn't really live up to the later ones, I've got every hope that Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc., is going to come off well.

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