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Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 3
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It's all been quite successful so I have to imagine my Wonder Woman is eventually going to take place in the same world as Superman. There's always going to be someone smart like Geoff Johns who can make those connections, so I think it will eventually be absorbed. -- Grant Morrison
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One of the reasons I love Tom King is that he’s a very structuralist kind of guy, by opposition to, say, Grant Morrison, who can sometimes be very rigid in terms of a project like "Pax Americana," but most of the time he’s very impressionistic with his structure. Tom is more rigid, in some ways. You know, he loves those nine-panel grids and the very designed types of beats. And I really wanted to go there. Strangely, this is not what this issue is like; there is no nine-panel grid, which I feel like a little bad about it. So I need to work with Tom again, just so I can do the technical nine-panel grid. -- Yanick Paquette
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Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume Two
Nov. 3rd, 2018 11:58 pmlaughing_tree
The original Doctor Psycho was a hypnotist, a mesmerist, very much akin to the 1940s idea of the creepy hypnotist—the eyes would go blank and you would do as he said. He was very obviously a villain in those stories, this dwarfish, really creepy-looking character that you could not mistake for anything other than a bad guy.
We thought, "What’s the contemporary, modern version of that?"
So, I was looking towards the pickup artist community, and that stuff from Neil Strauss's book, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. A good friend of mine actually studied under Neil Strauss to learn all his techniques, so she could detect them when they were used against her. She became the world’s foremost female pickup artist.
So, we really went deep. The Doctor Psycho sequence where he sits and talks to Diana is actually based on the script used by pickup artists. Even the movements he makes, all the gestures—he makes these casting-off gestures every time he talks about something that you won’t have to perceive as negative—it was really tightly worked out to follow. They use scripts.
-- Grant Morrison
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Batman Lost
Nov. 26th, 2017 11:49 amsuperboyprime
"That's the only moment of chance in all of Bruce's formation beyond his parents being killed. You know? Everything else is his deliberate training. It's the one thing that comes in and is circumstantial and prophetic, and like an omen. So it's the one thing you could dig at and say - the one thing you risk kind of just taking a sign from the universe. What if the universe is tricking you the whole time?" - Scott Snyder
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Rebirth - Nightwing #1 - Back in blue
Jul. 15th, 2016 12:41 amicon_ukAnother busy issue to start a Dick Grayson related series as we close off a few strands from "Grayson" and set things up for the new series...
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'I always felt one of the fundamentals of Wonder Woman in at least the last two decades is that she always seems to be on trial, and I don't mean that in a story sense. Everyone's always saying, "Why does nobody buy Wonder Woman? Why isn't she any good?" It seems like she's always on trial, so I thought if I literalized that and made the story basically the Amazons bringing her back home after her first adventure away and putting her on trial, it'd be different from anything else you might see. The Amazons have their own ways of doing things. It's kind of asking Wonder Woman to justify herself, which I feel has almost been what the character's had to do for a long time.' -- Grant Morrison
I'm dividing this into three parts because there are so many pages. Here's part 3.
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laughing_tree'For the first 48 pages, there are no men — it’s just women talking to each other. And then halfway through the book, we’re building up to this big fight, and then I thought, “No, I’m not.” This book isn’t about fights, there’s not going to be any fights. So we threw out the rules of traditional boy’s adventure fiction. It’s the most exciting book I’ve done in years, it changed everything I’m thinking about the future.' -- Grant Morrison
I'm dividing this into three parts because there are so many pages. Here's part 2.
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I'm dividing this into three parts because there are so many pages. Here's part 2.
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'I sat down and I thought, “I don’t want to do this warrior woman thing.” I can understand why they’re doing it, I get all that, but that’s not what William Marston wanted, that’s not what he wanted at all! His original concept for Wonder Woman was an answer to comics that he thought were filled with images of blood-curdling masculinity, and you see the latest shots of Gal Gadot in the costume, and it’s all sword and shield and her snarling at the camera. Marston’s Diana was a doctor, a healer, a scientist. So I went back to those roots and just built it up again.' -- Grant Morrison
I'm dividing this up between three posts, since there are so many pages. Here's part 1.
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Tragedy of Batman
Feb. 12th, 2016 10:23 pmluceanBatman 49 came out this week, setting up Bruce Wayne's return as Batman for the big next issue. And what a path it was to that point in this issue, so much that I kind of felt the need to post that return in the last three-ish pages because it was a thing of art.
( The Return of the one true Batman )
( The Return of the one true Batman )
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"You know, I've talked to other writers about this, and Etrigan is one of the big challenges for a writer, because he speaks mostly in rhyme and there are a lot of great writers who've done really great things with Etrigan and all his rhyming." -- Charles Soule
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