New Wonder Woman Team Announced

Both Women. Controversial, Eh?

♦ The Hollywood Reporter reports (see what I did there?) that DC Super Hero Girls writer Shea Fontana and DC Comics Bombshells artist Mirka Andolfo are DC’s new Wonder Woman creative team. They debut on July 12’s Wonder Woman #26. Fontana is contracted to write five issues, with Andolfo drawing the first two.

“Having worked on DC Super Hero Girls for the last few years, I have a great sense of Wondy, a teenage Wonder Woman in a high school setting, and it’s an honour and an adrenaline rush to be writing her now ‘all grown up. Many of her core characteristics continue to remain in peace, justice and equality, but as an adult, she’s seen a lot more war and tragedy and is dealing with her world from a wiser, more experienced point of view,” says Fontana

“[Fontana] has an incredible visual storytelling talent to create cinematic superhero action sequences while capturing the complexity of the characters’ emotions [and] maintaining a clear focus on the evolving relationships between characters,” said Andolfo. Interestingly, Republica Napoli seems to have had some hint of this a few days ago – or has psychic powers. Andolfo’s exclusive pin-up for them is pretty nice.

Wonder Woman is scheduled to remain a twice-monthly book, although DC seem to be emphasising that this is for five issues, so another team may be being considered. Meanwhile Liam Sharp hinted that his new book might be associated with Wonder Woman in some (unspecified) way.