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Maybe someone could be friendly enough to bring and old foagie up to date? Last I heard Wonder Woman was going to be coming out as a lesbian. Also that the original Flash was also going to be coming out as gay.

I just read in my Entertainment Weekly that Superman and Wonder Woman are going to be the new power couple. So I take it the lesbian stuff just got tossed?? What happens with Lois?

Any enlightenment would be appreciated..

Thanks

Frank

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Wonder Woman

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DC is always experimenting with alternate realities, changed timelines, and other crazy shenanigans. There are gender flipped universes and even parallel earths that switch the hero and villain roles(Lex fights to save the world from superman's tyranny). This is one of the reasons I don't really follow American Comics too closely.

"we can turn it all around, because it's not too late, it's NEVER too late" -(never too late, Three Days Grace)

Good question

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This is a deeply personal viewpoint and not everyone may agree but...

It's a very good question. The current 'New 52' reboot of DC Continuity follows events in which they collapsed a couple of comic book realities into one universe (DC like a reboot every few years to get that all important issue #0 or #1 on the shelves) and now seem determined to destroy wholesale elements of the previous continuity for no rhyme and reason. The Lois and Clark relationship has gone the way of Peter Parker and Mary Jane one over at Marvel, in that although both female characters are around in story neither is the main romantic partner of the hero at the moment and the former marriages never happened in this brave new universe.

I've seen the Superman & Wonder Woman story line being trailed and I have to say it appeals to me about as much as when they rebooted Alan Scott (now of Earth 2 it seems) as gay when they could have created a new character for that purpose. I just want to grab the writers by the lapels and scream at them about creating new characters to fill plot holes and PR needs rather than trashing established old ones to do it.

Still, at the current rate of accelerated reboot crisis events, the next Crisis on Infinite Earths (1986), Zero Hour (1994), Identity Crisis (2004), Infinite Crisis (2006), Final Crisis (2008) or Flashpoint / New 52 (2011-2) should be along in the next three or four years and maybe that one will be better than this mess...

*sigh*


"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Not quite

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First, it wasn't the original Flash, it was the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Only in this rebooted reality, he's not the "original" GL, because he appears (on Earth-2) a few years AFTER Hal Jordan became the GL on Earth-1.

Here's the logic plothole (if logic is even applicable regarding these things): as I understand it, the excuse for rebooting the universe was that the Reverse-Flash meddled with the past in the "Flashpoint" event. However, that shouldn't have affected the *other* Earths. So, my take of it is that this "new" Earth-2 is just another parallel Earth, and the "original" Earth-2, where the Golden Age characters started their careers, well, in the Golden Age, is still somewhere, undiscovered. If there's enough complaints, DC may still bring it back...

Going back to Superman & Wonder Woman... I don't keep close attention to the gossip these days (although I still do read a number of comics), but I think that never was the idea -- not with one of their major franchises. Over the years, it was hinted quite strongly that lesbianism was the status quo in Paradise Island (how else?), so Diana probably has no prejudices against it, but she still has an interest in men. I think that currently she's a bit more militant on women's rights than she used to be, so some people might rush to conclusions.

As for "Lois and Clark are not a couple" and "Let's try for a Superman-Wonder Woman couple"... nothing new here. John Byrne did about the same thing in the eighties (hint: the SM/WW relationship did not work out). In fact, before the Crisis reboot, I don't think Lois and Clark had EVER been a couple -- it was traditionally played as a weird triangle, with Clark pining for Lois and Lois pining for Superman. So, this situation with Clark pining for Lois is just a return to old times.

As for "return to old times," well, Diana used to have the same kind of lopsided triangle relationship with Steve Trevor: "Diana Prince" pined for Steve, who had the hots for Wonder Woman... in the Eighties reboot their relationship became more professional than romantic, but now they brought back "Steve is in love with WW". She does seem to care a lot for him, but probably not in a romantic way. I'm not sure, I haven't read the new WW stories -- this info I got from the Justice League books.

(And, by the way... why did they replace the gold in her costume with silver? Currency devaluation?)

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