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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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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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It's been a while since I've been in main continuity. DC reached out to me, and they were like, "Tom, it's time. It's time to come back, get in the waters." I was like, "No, that sounds scary and hard. I don't want to do that." Any time you have that feeling that sounds scary and hard as a writer — especially if you've been around for a while — you should lean into that so you don't get stale, so you keep taking risks. You don't want to do the same thing over and over again, ride your own coattails. -- 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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I did a mission statement for Wonder Woman. First time I've done that in any comic. It was a bunch of things. It was like, no sword, all lasso. Stuff like that. I have a 12-year-old daughter who wore Wonder Woman costumes and had a Wonder Woman rope and I just looked at her and [thought], "What does she love about this character?" I wrote all that stuff down. -- Tom King

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Read this on Kindle Unlimited, so I thought I'd post a few scans and have a spoilery discussion of it, if anyone's interested in.

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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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Wonder Woman #95.

Warning: Contains 90’s comic book art!

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