The perceived wisdom with Wonder Woman is that nobody knows what to do with her. While Batman and Superman can always be boiled back down to their essentials, with mythical origin stories which have remained the same ever since their debut, Diana Prince has been much more chameleon-like. Conceived as an Amazonian goddess who carried the radical feminist teachings of a fringe psychologist before being rejiggered as a superwoman formed from clay, then as a moddish spy with no powers or costume, then as a daughter of actual Greek gods, then as Adrianne Palicki...yeah, Wonder Woman has been a lot of things, shedding backstories, styles and personalities at an unprecedented rate. Which actually gives creators a lot of wiggle room in providing different takes on her. Ben Caldwell's looked to be one of the more distinct takes on the character, which is saying something. A pitch he put together in the early noughties which DC ended up rejecting for whatever reason (Caldwell hasn't gone too in-depth into that as he's slowly leaked his pitch documents and designs) involved a manga-style Wonder Woman in the vein of magical girl shows like Sailor Moon. Appealing to the burgeoning otaku market of the time made sense especially because it was bringing a lot of women into reading comic books and the magical girl tropes are easily applied to Diana Prince. The art was more interesting than most western takes on the manga style, but it still wasn't enough to get the project greenlit.
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/
