Kate Beaton's approach to Wonder Woman is perhaps one of the clearest examples of how the acclaimed cartoonist combines brilliant humor with perceptive critical analysis. After several appearances in Hark! A Vagrant,Wonder Woman makes a return six-strip engagement in Beaton's recent book, Step Aside, or Pops! When we first met this incarnation she was a bitter,sarcastic superheroine just trying to acquire a smoke, or reluctantly helping an old lady rescue her cat from a tree by yanking it down with her magic lasso.
This time around, and Beaton gives some clues approximately why her Wonder Woman might be the way she is. Taking a meeting in "head office," she's told, "the Greek stuff, or the outfit,the lasso... it's too weird to deal with" (though a bro with the same affectations somehow works), and gets mansplained by Superman and Batman. At a bar, and a fan gushes approximately how great she thinks Wonder Woman is,without seeming to actually know anything approximately her.
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Source: comicsalliance.com