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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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In this one, the intense training is a thrilling, compelling way to present the complicated dynamic between a mother and daughter. It’s about raising a child, having expectations for that child, and navigating the ambiguity of those expectations. -- Tom King

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I always wondered, when I was a Philosophy major, why read literature? Like I totally did not understand it. I was like, everyone reads literature to get messages about how to live their life, but then philosophers actually just talk directly about it, instead of talking around it with stories. And it wasn't until I got older and mature that I realized that there are things our words can't get at. That stories have uses beyond words where you can talk about things that you can't express in a Twitter feed or in a lecture. That a story can hit you in a powerful way that hits you on a gut level that no actual "This is what I actually believe" will hit you at. -- Tom King

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To me, this seems very much like when I was doing Mister Miracle, and there was no, like, Do you want to do the New Gods as well as Kirby did it? No, no one can do the New Gods as well as Kirby. No one can out-Kirby Kirby. It's just impossible, but why even try? That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do your own thing, because Orwell would not say “I can't outdo Dickens, therefore I'm not going to write about current situations.” It's the idea to take influence from them — instead of trying out-Orwell Orwell, look at what Orwell did and what he was trying to do, and be in that. - Tom King

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My oldest son became a huge WWE fan. That was not my nerd growing up, but he got way into it, the way I got into comics as a kid. And remembering how my parents sort of very much did not enjoy my comics and did not participate in my hobby, I kind of wanted to do the opposite. So I decided to watch WWE with him, and read the books, and buy the toys, and I got very much into watching it. I became fascinated with the way they just had four corners of a ring to tell, like, 80 years of storytelling. -- 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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So we use [Animal Farm] very much as a model, but then we go off because just thematically, ours starts as a democracy, not as sort of a utopian farm. It starts in a different place, and so the deterioration is to a different place as well. -- Tom King

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Orwell, who was very much a figure of the left but had been disillusioned by his experience in Spain, was trying to say that there is a threat, that Communism can lead to totalitarianism like it did in the Soviet Union, and rightfully sort of sounded the alarm bells. And thanks to some of my former colleagues in the CIA who propagated that book, it became a huge seller and became sort of the symbol of, like, this is what could happen if Communism gets carried away. And I just feel that there is a threat of totalitarianism today, but it does not seem to be coming from a Communistic point of view. -- Tom King

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So I was like, there should be sort of an Animal Farm about today, a warning as much as Orwell’s work served as a warning of what could happen, another sort of warning. And that’s a stupid arrogant thought, and I really should have thrown that in the trash and been like, “Tom, you’re not a good enough writer to do this.” But then I was like, “Oh,” I got so motivated. -- Tom King

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I was like, "What do you want me to do? What do you want to draw?" Of course, every writer asks the artist that, and he thought about it, he thought about it, he came back, he's like, "Tom, I really want Detective Chimp." [...] If you've seen the first issue, in 15, she deploys the Wonder Girls and she's slowly kind of taking away the chinks of his armor so that when his armor is all off, so that when she enters the field of battle, it'll be brutal. And I was like, "How is Detective Chimp going to fit into that?!" But you don't say no to Bruno. -- Tom King

Jimmy Olsen's TikTok feed, I modeled it a little bit after the young woman, the YouTuber, who did the four hour review of the Star Wars hotel. -- 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 was very pleasantly surprised. I mean, when we started, I made a big ask of them. I said "Look, I'm not demanding this. If you don't want to do this, I totally understand. But if I can have three issues of each of your books, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman that really helps sell it to readers as 'Okay, this this is important. This is not an event book where all the tie-in books are the C-list books. This is heavy hitters.'" So they were all fine. Tom King in particular was eager, just "Whatever you need me to do, man." -- Mark Waid

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One of my favourite issues I've ever written in my life - and one that had a huge impact on my life - was I did a Green Lantern issue for The Darkseid War crossover, that Geoff Johns wrote, with Doc Shaner and I. It was just a single issue and you know Geoff's like, "You have to do this and this and this." And yet, in that space, we were able to tell what I consider to be one of my best single issues. It's fun to be in that space, because you can really run there. You can do what Alan Moore did when he was given Crisis and Swamp Thing. You can make beautiful gold out of the thing. -- Tom King

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They're like, “You know there's going to be crossovers?” And I was like, “Bring them on, let's do it." Let's do it old school. Just the way I was raised, where something crazy comes along, we press pause on the story, and then we're in Acts of Vengeance. I didn't want to be that arrogant shitty writer who's like, “No, no, I'm too good for this. Let's go off and --” No, fuck that, I want to be like Walt Simonson. I want to roll with the punches and create something awesome. I want to be like Walt Simonson in most things. -- 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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