Wonder Woman 14 - Preview - November 14 2007

Newsarama has a preview of next week's big event: WONDER WOMAN 14, featuring the debut of Gail Simone's (hopefully lengthy) run as scribe of the Amazing Amazon. So I nicked it and here it is:

WONDER WOMAN #14

Written by Gail Simone
Art and Cover by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson

The Wonder Woman Jumper

Practical Polly's blog has nothing to do with comics, but that didn't stop her from knitting up this awesome Wonder Woman jumper!!! You should head over to her blog to see more pics of it and tell her how cool it is!!!

Redesign Wonder Woman's costume contest!!

Project: Rooftop has announced the Wonder Woman Wardrobe War!!! Check it out!! You've got until November 20 to get it done:

Contest Announcement: Wonder Woman Wardrobe War!

Break out your golden lassos, kids! Project: Rooftop is teaming up with Zeus Comics of Dallas, TX for a costume contest event in honor of fan-favorite creator Gail Simone’s upcoming run writing for the world’s greatest and most recognizable superheroine, WONDER WOMAN! Starting today, we are accepting entries for the Wonder Woman Wardrobe War, with Zeus Comics providing cool prizes for the top redesigns!

Grand Prize (1) - This classic Lynda Carter Wonder Woman statue, a signed WONDER WOMAN issue from Gail Simone, a DC Direct Wonder Woman action figure, and $25 gift certificate good at the Zeus Comics Online Store!

First Prize (2) - A signed WONDER WOMAN issue from Gail Simone, a DC Direct Wonder Woman action figure, and a $15 gift certificate good at the Zeus Comics Online Store!

Second Prize (3) - A signed WONDER WOMAN issue from Gail Simone and a DC Direct Wonder Woman action figure!

Additional Prizes - P:R and ZC may provide a few extra goodies for the other striking entries, if we see something that really knocks our socks off!

Send in your Wonder Woman redesigns to editors@projectrooftop.com, with the subject line, “Wonder Woman Wardrobe War!” Please include your full name, age, website, and mailing address for prize shipment.

All entries must be recieved by November 20th, 2007!

Wonder Woman and the Titans

Well, if everything goes according to plans: Gail Simone's Amazonian debut on WONDER WOMAN 14 and the TITANS EAST SPECIAL should both be out next week on November 14! Wahoo! An awesome week!!

The Brave and the Bold 7. December 2007

Okay, since I gave George Perez down-the-road for not getting Wonder Woman's costume right on the solicited art for BRAVE AND BOLD 7, I guess I should be fair and note that it was corrected on the released issue:

Half-ass corrected, and probably not by George, but corrected, none the less.

And George did get it right on the interiors, and awesomely so. Even if he forgot the seams on her costume. But I can deal with that.

Wonder Woman and the Teen Titans...of Earth-462

Waaay back in INFINITE CRISIS #6 (MAY 2006), George Perez drew a two page scene which featured the Alex Luthor-recreated multiverse. In one of the panels, at the bottom between pages 6 and 7, was a scene from Earth-462. It was set during World War II and featured alternate versions of Wonder Woman and the Teen Titans. This immediately caught my eye, because the Wonder Girl depicted was the Debra Winger character from the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series.
The Wonder Woman however, was very different. This was the Wonder Woman portrayed by Cathy Lee Crosby in the 1974 TV-Movie that predated the Lynda Carter series. You can read all about it here.
Anyway, it caught my eye...except for the fact the colorist obviously didn't know or didn't care that this Wonder Woman had existed before, and colored her completely wrong. As bad as the movie was, it still has a small little place in my heart and it bugged me. So I decided to recolor it.
While I was at it, I decided to add color to the Titans characters to make them stand out more.
Below on the left is the scene as it appeared and to the right is my recolorization.

With the original blend-into-the-background coloring, it's a little harder to pick the Titans out. But the originals are all there: (clockwise from the bottom) Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Wonder Girl and Aqualad.
Apparently I have to much time on my hands sometimes. LOL!

Okay, bye.

DC Universe - November 7 2007

ALL-NEW ATOM #17
BATMAN ARCHIVES VOL 7 HC
BATMAN: BATMAN AND SON HC
COUNTDOWN: SEARCH FOR RAY PALMER: RED RAIN #1
COUNTDOWN SPECIAL: JIMMY OLSEN 80-PAGE GIANT
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #25
GREEN ARROW: ROAD TO JERICHO TP
GREEN LANTERN CORPS: A DARKER SHADE OF GREEN TP
GREEN LANTERN: WANTED: HAL JORDAN HC
INFINITY INC. #3
JONAH HEX #25
METAL MEN #4 (OF 8)
METAMORPHO: YEAR ONE #3 (OF 6)
MIDNIGHTER #13
ROBIN: TEENAGE WASTELAND TP
SHOWCASE PRESENTS JONAH HEX VOL 1 TP This came out 2 years ago...
TRANQUILITY: ARMAGEDDON #1
WILDSTORM FINE ARTS SPOTLIGHT: THE AUTHORITY

ROBIN #168

Written by Peter Milligan
Art by Freddie Williams II
Cover by Andy Kubert

SUPERGIRL #23

Written by Kelley Puckett
Art and cover by Drew Johnson & Ray Snyder

SUPERMAN #670

Written by Kurt Busiek
Art by Rick Leonardi & Dan Green
Cover by Jesus Merino

Donna Troy is not your Bitch!

Needless to say, I was less than thrilled with this turn of events in COUNTDOWN 27 (OCT 24 2007):
But they did make it all better in COUTNDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 26 (OCT 31 2007):

And it totally rocked.
Proving once again that Donna Troy ain't nobody's bitch...Re-Todd!

And can we have more Scott Kolins, please?

Thanksgiving Comics - Golden Age Heroes are Dicks

COMIC CAVALCADE 18.
(DEC-JAN 1946/7)

This cover shows that the golden-age Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern were just not nice people.
Look at how they're chasing that poor turkey around. You know they're just after him because they want to whack his head off and plop him on their dinner table. But that's not the bad part. Millions of people do that.
But...why do they have to terrorize him first!?
Between Flash's speed, Wonder Woman's lasso and Green Lantern's power ring, one of them could subdue the bird in a second and have the deed over and done with. But nooo...they have to chase the thing, put stress on his heart, cause him anxiety...
What is up with that? Is this how they have fun?
They're dicks.

Gobble it!

Yeah, I'm back. For a minute, anyway...

Well, I wasn't going to be able to top last month's banner, so I didn't try, LOL! For a thanksgiving theme I went with the cover of COMIC CAVALCADE 18 (DEC-JAN 1946/7).

And here's the original:
I made some slight changes. Guess I was in a weird mood. Heh.