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From Newsrama.com Charisma CarpenterCharisma Carpenter - Has posing for Playboy hurt Charisma’s film career ?By Jericho Wilson & Brady Sunday 2 May 2004, by Webmaster At Friday’s Wonder Woman panel Greg Rucka, Drew Johnson, and Dan Didio fielded questions ranging from storylines to sales to junior partners getting their own books. The “Stoned” arc (it’s got Medousa in it) concludes in issue #210 with “pretty dramatic events,” Rucka said. Immediately following #210 will be a Wonder Woman-Flash crossover entitled “Truth or Dare.” In the two part story, Wally West and Wonder Woman are tethered together by Wonder Woman’s golden lasso, and get real with each other. Superman will show up more in the series, now that Rucka is writing Adventures of Superman. Cheetah will be coming back to the series soon. When asked about DC movies, Rucka expressed mild frustration at the ability of Warner Brothers to successfully adapt DC characters to film, pointing to X2 as an example of a film which takes its comic book characters seriously and portrays them honestly. When asked how much control DC has over characters like Wonder Woman being translated into other media, Didio said, “The real influence we have on other media is to tell the best stories we can.” Rucka also commented that one-time frontrunner (in the eyes of some fans, at least) for the role of Wonder Woman, Charisma Carpenter more than likely ruined her chances by posing nude for Playboy. Rucka said that there will indeed be a Wonder Woman equivalent of “Hush” for Batman, and the current Brian Azzarello/Jim Lee arc on Superman. When asked if such a defining, big storyline was coming, Rucka said, “Yes, very big. You may not like it, but it’s a good story.” In discussing sales for Wonder Woman Rucka and Dan Didio said that the latest figures put the book at around 31,000 copies. Didio said he was happy with those figures because the series is steadily climbing up with each issue from prior to Rucka taking the series. The most recent peak was at #200 which saw roughly 40,000 copies move. In Rucka’s opinion, the series should be selling 80,000 copies a month. When asked about a Wonder Girl series, the sales figures were again referenced as the reason why there is no book starring Cassie. Although, according to Rucka, Wonder Girl will be appearing for a “long stretch” in the series shortly. Wonder Woman will be appearing in Adventures of Superman #628, although not in the way readers would expect, according to Rucka, who explained that the issues’ story deals with the relationship between Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman will appear in Adventures #633 or #634. Rucka, when asked why female characters have trouble gaining traction in the marketplace, said that while cheesecake seems to do well, offered that there may be a mild form of sexism going on the marketplace. When asked about a romantic relationship, Rucka again said that, in his view, putting Wonder Woman in a romantic relationship seemed to be paramount in the eyes of many writers. Didio however, added that in his view, romance is a valid story element, and Rucka later added that he has, only recently, started seeing romantic possibilities for the character. On how his writing of Wonder Woman has evolved, Rucka said that now, he can better see that her sense of humor being important to her character, as is her anger. Steve Trevor will be returning to the series, as Rucka said that he recently found a way to put him into the series that he likes. 11 Forum messages |
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