Brilliant!

Let's try a little something here. Think of everything you know about Superman.

I'm going to assume you don't read any comics and can still tell me all about Metropolis and the Daily Planet, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane. Smallville probably comes to mind along with Krypton and Jor-El. Of course, there's the iconic costume.

Now try the same thing with Batman.

I know even my mom could list off three or four villains. The batcave, Alfred, Robin and Gotham City. 

DC has the big three heroes, known as the trinity. Let's finish it off here and think of everything Wonder Woman.

There was the TV show. And...um... an invisible jet. And while most non-readers know nothing about her, we all could easily pick her out of a lineup. At least we used to.

Wonder Woman # 600 came out last week and since I already had a stack of stuff I regularly read, I waited until today to pick it up. It's comprised of some easily accessible short stories and different artist portraits of her. It all builds to the ending story, the real meat, the tale that actually affects her and makes you want to buy #601. So a celebration of 600 comics in her own title and almost 70 YEARS of existence ends with them changing her costume. That's right, they took the one thing the world can agree on about Wonder Woman and threw it away.

I just noticed it looks like she isn't wearing shoes. Just tights with ankle bracelets, but I could be wrong. Personally I think this is a huge mistake, especially changing the bracelets. And the leather jacket doesn't give off a heroic vibe, more of a needless accessory to make the costume look more official or something. She looks more like a hooker from the pages of Sin City than an Amazonian princess.

And just to make sure this all goes wrong, they've changed her origin to explain the costume. Only DC could think of celebrating a character's success and longevity by throwing away all of that iconic garbage and starting over. Oh sure they tinkered with Supes (remember the electricity powers and the blue lightning suit?) and Batman's gone through some changes recently (Bruce is lost in time, Dick's in the suit and Bruce's illegitimate son is now Robin) but they have a much firmer foundation to build on and a much greater spot in the public conscious. WW will soon be back to her normal self to appease the few readers she has left and hopefully issue #700 won't be quite the disaster this is bound to be.

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