She’s a Wonder…Finally On the Big Screen!

Today is the U.S. release date for Wonder Woman, the first-ever big-screen adaptation of William Moulton Marston’s Amazing Amazon. Following the overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and fans alike last year toward Princess Diana’s debut in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—in fact, many moviegoers said she was the best part of that film—comic lovers have been eagerly looking forward to today’s cinematic debut. Starring Gal Gadot as the legendary warrior and Chris Pine (Captain Kirk of the recent Star Trek movies) as Steve Trevor, this spin on WW’s origin story moves the action from Marston’s World War II setting to World War I Europe and smack-dab in the center of the suffragette movement.

Speaking of Wonder Woman, over at the news site Comics for Sinners I’ve reviewed a few comics that star her; if you want to know more about them, just click on the following links:

Wonder Woman ’77 Special #1: Written by Marc Andreyko, art by Drew Johnson, Cat Staggs, Jason Badower, and Richard Ortiz

Wonder Woman ’77 Special #2: Written by Marc Andreyko, art by Drew Johnson, Cat Staggs, Jason Badower, and Richard Ortiz

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #5: Written by Sholly Fisch, art by Dario Brizuela

And that’s not all! Right here at SWC we’ve got a project that includes Wonder Woman—in a clash with the clown princess of crime, Harley Quinn, who starred in her own movie last year: Suicide Squad!

Heroines and Heroes is a collection of comic stories and pinups all drawn by me, dating back to my days in the early 1990s small-press movement—that age of dinosaurs in which creators like me used to make our comics by printing them out on photocopiers and then stapling them by hand. In H&H you’ll find mainstream heroes and small-press heroines, and even a couple of anthropomorphic bikers.

Leading off is “V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N (in the Summertime),” a three-page Wonder Woman vs. Harley Quinn story that I wrote and drew in the late ’90s as a sample for a DC Comics editor who thought I’d be a good fit for their Batman: The Animated Series comic (it didn’t work out). It’s followed by an adventure of small-presser Jeff Wood’s rabbit-eared superspy, Snowbuni; three pages from the long-canceled indie comic Motorbike Puppies; and an adventure of the indie superheroine The Blonde Avenger.

Heroines and Heroes is available for free download right now, so visit its product page for more information, including sample pages.