Bill Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's run on Wonder Woman came to an end this year, a series that wasn't without its own controversies, like the rejigged origin story that saw Diana Prince as the actual daughter of a couple of Greek Gods, and a lot less like a badass Amazonian superhero. Still, it was a good run in other ways especially when the character has been pigeon-holed into simply being Superman's girlfriend in every other book she appears in. The Azzarello and Chiang Wonder Woman didn't sell like gangbusters but it did receive consistent critical praise and had a noticeably vocal fan base. The news that they would be leaving the book and handing over the reigns to wife-and-husband writer-and-artist (respectively) team Meredith and David Finch was met with some trepidation which, following a couple of interviews with the pair, appeared to be confirmed. We want her to be a strong - I don't want to say feminist, but a strong character. That is the David Finch quote that got picked out of DC's long, mostly boring interview with the couple with the announcement. Wonder Woman was designed as a feminist icon, and has rarely been considered anything else, and Finch treating the word like a negative didn't help matters either. Since then he's backpedalled significantly, and the publisher's PR department have kept him on a tight leash, but the damage was done. And the comic sucks.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
