Adam Hughes to write All-Star Wonder Woman

[hippie_hunter]

If any book was to come next it would be All-Star JLA but I just dont see why Justice couldn't be the start of their All-Star Books.

Nope, All-Star Green Lantern was already confirmed to be the next All-Star book after All-Star Wonder Woman. I'm just wondering though. Will it be a Hal story. Or a Kyle story. Or maybe an Alan story.

 

[Mee]

Well if it is suposed to be a character's most iconic form, it'll probably be Hal. Maybe Alan.

 

[Ceb-Man]

Hughes is going to be awesome on All-Star Wonder Woman. I like his take on Steve Trevor in the book as well. I like the Greek Mythology coming back.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well if it is suposed to be a character's most iconic form, it'll probably be Hal. Maybe Alan.

I don't think there's any mandate on All-Star presenting the characters in their most iconic form. If there were, Miller wouldn't be writing All-Star Batman the way he is.

 

[Darthphere]

Alan Scott mother****ers.

 

[Assassin]

am i the only one who doesnt care?

 

[Eros]

I don't think there's any mandate on All-Star presenting the characters in their most iconic form. If there were, Miller wouldn't be writing All-Star Batman the way he is.

well Frank Millars Batman is for all do respect to everyone the came before him, its the all-star Batman. After Darkknight returns [and the other gritty batman stories in the 80s] Batman became this extremly popular character. You know as well as i do, most of us today didn't really dig Batman until those insane 80s stories and gothic 70s stuff to.

 

[Nightwing 52]

Best parts:

"You look over the sixty year history of the character, and treat it like a salad bar. You take the good bits, and leave the rest."

"Or, to go totally geekspeak, Hal Jordan wishes he could be Steve Trevor one day – and not just for the possible shot at Wonder Woman"

“Everything Wonder Woman says and does makes the world a better place. If you aske her to pass the salt at the dinner table, she’d do it in a way that would make you think, ‘Gosh darn it, I am going to go back and finish college! She could cure cancer with a smile. She’s this positive, outspoken person, so her companion for the story will be this laid-back, laconic, cowboy poet of a pilot who balances her completely. Again - it’s not a story about a superhero, it’s about a princess from a foreign country coming to America, and her handler/tour guide is the Marlboro Man.”

I'm looking forward to this book. Glad to hear that he's thinking along those lines and not focusing on who the supervillain of the month is going to be. The article is worth reading, too. You can really get a feel for his enthusiasm.

 

[Darthphere]

well Frank Millars Batman is for all do respect to everyone the came before him, its the all-star Batman. After Darkknight returns [and the other gritty batman stories in the 80s] Batman became this extremly popular character. You know as well as i do, most of us today didn't really dig Batman until those insane 80s stories and gothic 70s stuff to.

Frank Miller ruined the character of Batman for years.

 

[The Batman]

why is it.....that Adam Hughes and Grant Morrison get what the All Star books are supposed to be about...and Frank Miller dosent?

Cant wait to get this book.

 

[Darthphere]

Better question: Why did DC allow that to go to print?

 

[The Batman]

Better question: Why did DC allow that to go to print?

Because hes frank miller. thats probably why they let him write a book that dosent fit the discription of the all star line

 

[Bullseye]

DC let it go to print because they knew a book with the creative team being Jim Lee and Frank Miller would sell quite well and the first issue did just that.

I'm thinking that Lee could've written and drawn All Star Batman.

I going to avoid any comic Miller writes in the future. All Star Batman isn't terrible, but its bad enough.

 

[Manhunter]

No thread on this?I'm of mixed opinions. Hughes draws drop-dead gorgeous women, but it's always been a bit on the exploitative side. I have no idea how good of a writer he is, and Wonder Woman's hardly an simple task. Hopefully he at least gleaned a lot from his time as cover artist. If they're going to make an ASWW at all, I at least want it to be as good as All-Star Batman and not anywhere near the horrifying mess of All-Star Batman. The latter is easy to do, but the former...well, it's not so easy.

Totally agree with you there. While Hughs can crank out a good wank spread, can he tell a story? What else has he done writing wise?

 

[Steelsheen]

“So what I’ve been doing is re-reading a lot of old Wonder Woman comics. As I see it, I’m getting to do this iconic approach to the character, and I’m looking at it the same way as the people who did…say, Batman: The Animated Series. You look over the sixty year history of the character, and treat it like a salad bar. You take the good bits, and leave the rest. You get the best of all possible worlds. I’m taking all the thinking I did about the character that I did when I was working on the covers…which is a lot of time to sit and think, people will probably say, because I’m so slow [laughs], and I’m taking the best bits from the Golden Age, the best bits from the George Perez run, and hopefully will come up with something where I can say, ‘Aha! A happy, healthy balance.’”

geekgasm

“Wonder Woman’s this perfect character, so her weakness can’t make her look like a bad person, or even a weak character, really, and I came up with insatiable curiosity. All of my favorite, larger than life, fictitious characters seem to come from farms, and they all seem to have what I think is called a Dorothy complex – they have everything they need at home, but they want to see over the rainbow. That’s it with Wonder Woman – she lives in the perfect place – and she wants to go to man’s world, and meet people, and talk to strangers, and learn their ways. I thought, in the hands of a writer who’s halfway decent, that insatiable curiosity, that Marco Polo, ‘I have to see the world’ kind of thing, could get any character into a world of trouble. She has this insatiable need to know and see the world. She’s Dorothy Gale, She’s Luke Skywalker, she’s James Kirk – she wants to get off the farm.”

hmm, that's an interesting take. lets just hope AH doesnt sping it too much like Luke Skywalker to the point that he resents his home and later regrets for having done so. Diana doesnt resent Paradise Island, but i can definitely see the Diana being very curious about Man's World. also in terms of storytelling and putting forward the moral of the story it will be a good way of showing what is good/ bad with our world through someone else's eyes.

Make no mistake though, Trevor won’t be a boytoy, eyecandy that’s been pushed to the background in most scenes. “I’m treating all the supporting characters the same – Steve Trevor, Etta Candy, Diana’s mother – they all should be interesting enough that they could carry their own titles,” Hughes said. “They shouldn’t just be throwaway characters who are only there for contractual reasons. They should be there because they themselves are important parts of Wonder Woman’s story.”

cool! looking forward to his take of these classic characters.

“If I can pull him off the way I want, picture Steve Trevor as Steve McQueen who’s been hanging out with Race Bannon from Jonny Quest, and they go over to Chuck Yeager’s house for drinks, but it’s the Chuck Yeager played by Sam Shepherd from The Right Stuff. Steve Trevor is the prototypical laconic, cowboy pilot, because that would make an interesting balance with Wonder Woman.”

daym!

 

[Assassin]

look at it this way, now you have another wonder woman title you can read instead of the one with the new writer.

you totally ment gay didnt you

 

[XwolverineX]

Do people still care about All-star?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I never did.

 

[Assassin]

do ppl still care about wonderwoman?

 

[Bullseye]

I certainly still do care about Wonder Woman. And I'm quite interested into seeing where Heinberg takes Wonder Woman in the new storyline.

As for All Star, I'm still giving it a chance. Although, ASB has been the opposite of I expected, I'm trying to stick with it.

 

[Assassin]

for the reg one im getting 1 more issue, them im gonna drop it.

 

[XwolverineX]

I never did.

Yeah, that's a confirmation that you have at least somewhat of a brain.

 

[Mee]

I don't think there's any mandate on All-Star presenting the characters in their most iconic form. If there were, Miller wouldn't be writing All-Star Batman the way he is.

Yeah that's why I said "if." The way Hughes understood it, it was it was to be iconic, obviously Miller didn't think so. So GL could go either way too.

 

[Darthphere]

for the reg one im getting 1 more issue, them im gonna drop it.

That makes sense.

 

[XwolverineX]

My comic Store makes me take 2 more issues after I drop it.. It sucks.