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To say it has proved to be a bold new start for the Amazing Amazon is an understatement.
Meanwhile, a new villain, the ultra-traditionalist Sovereign, intends to bend Wonder Woman to his will.
What can you tease about it?
And then with this issue he tries another method, which is isolation.
Wonder Woman is a social creature, she’s not a loner like Clark and Bruce.
What will the third trial be?
Although this issue takes place in one location physically, mentally it takes place inmanydifferent places.
How did you break down what those locations would be?
Yeah, I wrote this in a real stupid way!
A lot of the locations were inspired by going through Wonder Woman’s history.
I want to draw Barcelona, the city I love."
What does it say about their relationship that he is still the person her mind turns to?
Yes, that’s exactly it.
That’s exactly how it adds up.
You mentioned Sovereign a minute ago, and he’s proving to be a really interesting villain.
Where did he come from?
I was looking for what makes Diana different than Clark and Bruce.
So what differentiates her?
What differentiated her to me, in thinking about it, was: Batman enforces the law.
His best friend is literally the police commissioner!
He wants that wholesome Kansas vision of his parents to be spread out.
It’s one of love and empathy, but it’s about keeping things the same.
Wonder Woman, she’s the rebel.
She wants to go against the system, as opposed to enforcing and reinforcing it.
That’s where Sovereign comes from.
He feels like a very relevant villain right now.
There’s been a resurgence, particularly online, of people expressing these hard line attitudes.
Were you surprised by how timely he has proven to be?
I think the thing that most surprises me is people saying “Stop mocking me!”
or associating themselves with Sovereign.
I always want to say to people, “You’re not the bad guy!
This is not you.
You are not the evil version, you might be the good guy here.”
I was half raised by my grandmother - a wonderful human being with very traditional values.
She would be on Wonder Woman’s side in this!
Sovereign is a radical.
He’s as bad as Lex Luthor andthe Joker.
He’s the bad guy.
Don’t associate yourself with him!
Have confidence that your values are better than his.
Maybe you’re a good realtor!
You don’t have to beLex Luthor.
We’re approaching the end of your first year on Wonder Woman.
How are you finding working on this book?
Working with Daniel is wonderful.
My schedule is getting tighter because I’m doing all this Hollywood crap - which I love!
- but I’m not letting go of Wonder Woman because I love it.
I think we have the first 25 mapped out at this point.
The Sovereign story will end by issue 20-ish, and then we’ll move on to the next thing.
We have a big crossover event coming for next three issues after after the ‘Sacrifice’ arc.
As you just hinted atthe Absolute Power eventis coming up.
It can be awesome.
It’s fun to be in that space, because you could really run there.
you could do what Alan Moore did when he was given Crisis and Swamp Thing.
you’re able to make beautiful gold out of the thing.
When I was on Batman I got to be fairly isolated from all that.
We had The Button crossover, but basically not much.
And I literally said to them, “No!
I want this to be old school.
I want to be like Walt Simonson and make something awesome out of it.”
And that’s just what comics are.
Wonder Woman #9 is published by DC on May 21.
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