If You Write It » babylon 5 http://www.ifyouwriteit.com random thoughts-occasional typos Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:41:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 J. Michael Straczynski and Wonder Woman http://www.ifyouwriteit.com/2010/07/01/j-michael-straczynski-and-wonder-woman/ http://www.ifyouwriteit.com/2010/07/01/j-michael-straczynski-and-wonder-woman/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:42:19 +0000 Descartes http://www.ifyouwriteit.com/?p=275 For sci fi geeks like me, J. Michael Straczynski will always and forever be the man behind Babylon 5.  Though he has moved well beyond the world of bozo haired aliens and space opera-the last time I heard his name he was proudly proclaiming that Changeling was a true story.

The news today is that Wonder Woman has been given a makeover-again-and that she is ready to move into the 21th century.  I like the new look, but then, I like the old look as well.  Wonder Woman is like Superman, she is an icon of the comic book world-but she has had a hard time being made into a movie.  The last time I heard any Big News about W0nder Woman was when my personal hero George Perez was taking over the title and going to drag Wonder Woman into the 20th Century-he still seems to be trying.

J. Michael Straczynski has not abandoned the space opera loving Sci Fi geeks of the world, in the works are such Science Fiction classics as Forbidden Planet and Lensman, as well as sci fi sounding titles like World War Z and Shattered Union.

I haven’t read comic books in a long time, but I used to be a semi-serious collector.  I fell in love with the work of George Perez in The New Teen Titans-great stuff that.  But I never got into his Wonder Woman comics.  I think I lost a lot of interest in comics once Graphic Novels took over and people started to think of them as an art form ala Mr Glass from Unbreakable.

It’s good to see Wonder Woman in the news anyway, can interviews with Linda Carter be far behind?

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