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She wants change. She wants to go against the system, as opposed to enforcing and reinforcing it. And that's where I was like, "I need Wonder Woman to be a rebel, I need her to be against the systems that are in place now." And - stealing from Stan Lee's Hulk - the greatest thing to rebel against sometimes is the United States. -- Tom King

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I think sometimes the most radical act anyone can do is just to say “No.” To quote Taylor Swift, I wanna opt out of this narrative. What you think I am, what you think I should do, the story you are writing for me is not my story. I’m writing my own story. And to add sort of the “thank you” to it is part of who Diana was. That she is saying no, but she has respect for everyone. She has love for everyone from a cockroach to a God. It’s an act of radical kindness. No, thank you. -- Tom King

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And one of the things I put was "No Wonder Girls." Because I wanted this to be a very Wonder Woman-focused book. I thought sometimes her title had wandered from making her the title character, and I wanted every line pointing to her. I just saw the fans’ reaction and how much they wanted these characters to be in this book, and they wanted to see these relationships. And sometimes even a writer as arrogant, as stupid as me can admit that they made an error in their bible. I was like: “Oh, you know what? Why am I swimming against the tide?” My job as a comic-book writer is not to deny joy. -- Tom King

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Dan would yell at me for writing a comic like this. Because sort of Dan DiDio’s philosophy was always to stretch stuff out, if you have a big moment, make it into a mini-series. And we have three huge moments in this issue. -- Tom King

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I did that in Batman, you know. I famously did issues #50 through #75 as Batman, just losing. I learned my lesson. She’s triumphant at the end of eight and and at the end of nine she’s also triumphant. The great theme of this book is a very simple direct theme. And that is Wonder Woman is awesome. I’m trying to sort of count down for you for many issues in many years, all the ways that Wonder Woman is the essential superhero. -- Tom King

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The challenge of Wonder Woman as a superhero writer is that she’s a warrior, she’s tough but, generally speaking, she doesn’t fight with violence, she has to find another way to triumph. The love she made throughout her life makes her triumph in this issue, that’s what it’s about. -- Tom King

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Tom King and DC Comics’ latest Wonder Woman issue is being decried as a “grooming operation,” but the issue also includes anti-Christian and anti-motherhood screeds. -- Actual Comicsgate quote

She’s fighting for equality, love, and all the things I was taught as a kid in the ‘80s that were the ideal things and that my mother was taught in the ‘50s and all the things my grandmother, who helped raise me, was taught in the ‘40s. I don’t see it as being political. I think too many people are associating the bad guy with themselves. I’m like “You’re not the bad guy! Just like you’re not Lex Luthor or the Joker, you are not the Sovereign.” -- Tom King

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I came up as an intern for Chris Claremont. That was where I first learned story when I was a kid. Every day I'd go into the room, and Chris was telling me how his stories worked, and it was a lesson. Chris' thing was for every superhero, what makes them strong makes them weak, and that's how we make them interesting. Rogue's power is also that she can't touch somebody — that being the classic example. Or Wolverine — he's savage, and he's always having to overcome his own savagery, and that creates the tension. That's always been a thing with me. Looking at Wonder Woman, I was like, "She is that character." -- Tom King

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When we have comic book readers coming into stores today, this younger generation, they're rebellious. They've seen a system that in some way — in a lot of ways — failed them. Between the economy and COVID, they've really had the shit thrown at them, and they're rebelling and trying to find a better way. I think Wonder Woman can represent that energy that they're bringing, that the modern comic book reader is into. -- Tom King

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I always say that Jon Hickman and I do the opposite thing in comics. Hickman takes these characters we thought we knew and turns them into gods. You read his writing and you feel like you’re reading the Greek gods talking about humans way far below them, and all these comic characters are just kind of blessed in ways we cannot understand. And I do the opposite. -- Tom King

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Mitch's idea was to do a thing where Jack, the son of Mister Miracle, would be babysit by Jon and Damian, and we would do like a little fun story of them as babysitters of Jack. Which was a wonderful idea Mitch had, and somehow that kind of buried in my head and I was like, 'That sounds like a book my kids would read.' It'd be fun, but I was like, 'It's the son of Batman and the son of Superman and they're babysitting the son of... Mister Miracle?' I was like, 'It should be the daughter of Wonder Woman.' That's a great book. -- Tom King

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#7'd had them, and the rest of the Squad's current roster, saving Deadshot, his daughter, and his ex-girlfriend from the FBI.

#8 opened on the re-united latest roster of Task Force X, discussing the man who'd been manipulating them.

" We need to put a bullet in Ted Kord's brain. "

The team reviewed Kord's machinations. )

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