The Costumes of Wonder Woman

For the most part, Wonder Woman has had very little costume changes over the years, but sometime last year she had her first major change, and then this week was announced another look for the upcoming TV series.


This was her first look from when she first appeared in the '40s.

The next costume was pretty close to the original, and the Lynda Carter costume is just a slight meld between the two, even though they are pretty close to begin with. This is the costume that most people recognize, and the one that was used in the animated series.



Now comes the costumes from a change in the series last year.  It is vastly different, and it has been a major controversy for awhile, with what seems like the majority just flat out hating it.  I don't hate it that much, it could be a little better, but nothing anger worthy.

Finally we have the one from the new TV Series that has been announce through at "first look" at an action figure.  It again seems to be a mix of the one that last decades and the newest one.




So far the news on the TV Series has been every where.  People love it, people hate it, as with any change.  What are your feelings on it?


Since the costume change of last year, new organizations have been saying that it was only to get away from the patriotic American look to a more generic one.  Not saying they aren't wrong, they have the same issue with the upcoming Captain America movie.  The title here and most places is Captain America: The First Avenger and in other places it will just be called The First Avenger.

Gordon Levitt playing Alberto Falcone

A while back it was announced that Levitt would play a role in the next Batman movie, but nothing as to who.  Finally, yesterday we get the news of Alberto Falcone, the son of Carmine Falcone who was played by Tom Wilkinson in Batman Begins.  I won't go into too much detail so I don't give anything away, but Alberto also plays a larger role in Batman: The Long Halloween and Dark Victory (a follow up to Long Halloween).  If you have read at least  The Long Halloween and you like Batman, you should definitely pick it up and it may reveal some story of the upcoming movie.

EDIT:
So a day after Variety releases a story about him playing Falcone, Entertainment Weekly claims that it is untrue, but not listing who is actually is.  At this point no confirmation except for the fact that he is in the movie. 

Will Eisner's Birthday

Google is celebrating today with this image.

As you some of you may have been able to figure out. Will Eisner is probably my all time favorite comic book writers.  He brought us the first published "Graphic Novel", and got it actually treated like a real book in an age where people believe that comics were only for children.

 These two statues sit on my bookshelf side by side, and they will probably always be that way.  Two my favorite hobbies, comic books and video games, next to each other, but also the definitive icons of the corresponding genres that got me into each of them.  Will Eisner's first volume of Spirit comics, and Zelda, Link's Awakening.  I probably played Zelda and read the first volume of The Spirit within the a year or so of each other.  Both go on nearing 20 years, of still influencing my life.

It brings me plenty of joy to have Google honoring Will Eisner, especially when most people outside of the comic book industry don't know who he is.

Here is Stan Lee interviewing Will Eisner.











On an ending note, here that first comic book published as a whole book and started publishing to accept it as a true medium.  The original printing from 1978 and only 1500 were printed.