Wonder Woman Sightings

[Gail Simone]

Seen a Wonder Woman reference or story somewhere?

Post about it or link to it here so we can all share!

[aegisbearer]

My friend, Anthony (who will be a member here), posted this on his FB page. I think it's an amazing piece of publicity: a dramatic reading of the first issue of Wonder Woman from 1942.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090905_Comics_come_to_life__and_a_welcome_Becket tian_reprise.html

[DeltaBadhand]

I am going to try to attend, and the events in the Fringe Festival tend to be okay with people video taping them, so if I can I will and post here. Should be a blast!

[Gail Simone]

I am going to try to attend, and the events in the Fringe Festival tend to be okay with people video taping them, so if I can I will and post here. Should be a blast!

Great, Delta! And welcome!

Why am I putting exclamation points on everything?! I've been doing it for days!

I can't STOP! :)

[Major Comma]

I dont have any articles but I saw quite a few really great Wonder Woman costumes at SDCC.
I just felt they deserved kudos for their fine work.

[OzBat!]

I was browsing through an op-shop the other day, and picked up the following:

The Further Adventures of Wonder Woman, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, a Bantam Book printed around 1993. It's got 8 short prose stories using mostly the Perez canon, by authors Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Henry Slesar, Karen Haber, Will Murray, Mindy Newell, Edward Wellen, Joey Cavelieri, and Pamela Sargent.

Fun!

[mercwiththemouth]

Someone over at the DC forums posted this music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlHv3BbBv6A).

It's a Korean pop video where the lead singer turns into WW several times. Very cute.

[aegisbearer]

Someone over at the DC forums posted this music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlHv3BbBv6A).

It's a Korean pop video where the lead singer turns into WW several times. Very cute.

Speaking of Korean and Wonder Woman, this was a Korean tv show based on our gal.

http://www.retrojunk.com/tv/videos/2546-wonder-woman-korean-/1816/#intro

[spark627]

Seen a Wonder Woman reference or story somewhere?

Post about it or link to it here so we can all share!

In the season finale of Nurse Jackie (amazing show), one of the characters gets fired so he goes out and gets drunk (there are other reasons too, but I don't want to spoil) he comes back into the hospital and his old boss starts yelling at him to leave. He puts up his arms in the WW pose and says "keep shooting bullets at me, I have magic bracelets!'

It was so odd and random, even my non-comic reading boyfriend caught the reference.

[Gail Simone]

My friend, Anthony (who will be a member here), posted this on his FB page. I think it's an amazing piece of publicity: a dramatic reading of the first issue of Wonder Woman from 1942.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090905_Comics_come_to_life__and_a_welcome_Becket tian_reprise.html

WOW! I would have LOVED to see that!

[Gail Simone]

I was browsing through an op-shop the other day, and picked up the following:

The Further Adventures of Wonder Woman, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, a Bantam Book printed around 1993. It's got 8 short prose stories using mostly the Perez canon, by authors Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Henry Slesar, Karen Haber, Will Murray, Mindy Newell, Edward Wellen, Joey Cavelieri, and Pamela Sargent.

Fun!

Yikes, I had that book. I would love to see those stories back in print!

[DeltaBadhand]

WOW! I would have LOVED to see that!
You still can! Two more performances scheduled for the festival. (You're on the East Coast right?)

Friday, September 11 at 10:30pm
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30pm

We're going on 9/11. Any other Philly area folks thinking about it? Maybe we can stop for a drink before or after?

Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.playsandplayers.org/performance/super

[OzBat!]

Yikes, I had that book. I would love to see those stories back in print!PM me, I'll send it to you!

[ScottyQuick]

The other month, I was at the library. It was, without a doubt, the best day the library will ever have. Why, you ask?

Male kid 1, around 7: I'm Ben! -fakes shooting lasers at Male kid 2-
Male kid 2, around 8: I'm -mumbles something that I can't hear, shoots at Female kid 1-
Female kid 1, around 8: -stands there-
Male kid 2: LIE DOWN YOU'RE DEAD I SHOT YOU!
Female kid 1, yelling really loudly with the last word: NOPE, I'M WONDER WOMAN AND SHE CAN DO ANYTHING.

They then fought for a minute until I told them that yeah, Wonder Woman could take whatever he shot at her, and then they quit playing.

Bless you, JLU and your spinoff comics.

[4PointOh]

TMZ. Check it out:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/04/mel-b-superhero-wannabe-for-friday/

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Well, I understand there's a tranny bar in New York called The Silver Swan...

[DBrewer75]

one of the designers on last night's Project Runway had Wonder Woman on her t-shirt

[DeltaBadhand]

Home on Staycation this week, watching tons of trash TV. On The Wendy Williams Show, she keeps a Wonder Woman mug on her table. You can see it for almost the entire show.

[CarolStrick]

Janet Evanovich's running character, Stephanie Plum, makes the occasional Wonder Woman reference.

I believe it was Joanne Baldwin, the Weather Warden in Rachel Caine's books, who recently mentioned Wondie, though it could have been Claire from her Morganville vampires series.

Jenny Crusie made Wondie the motif of her and Bob Mayer's novel, Don't Look Down. Unfortunately the book wasn't that great. (Their next one, Agnes and the Hitman, was fabulous!)

From Buffy:
Andrew: Man, this place gives me the creeps. It's like in Wonder Woman issue 297-299.
Xander: "Catacombs" Yeah, with the skeletons.
Both: That was cool!
Xander: Move it. This way!

[DeltaBadhand]

You still can! Two more performances scheduled for the festival. (You're on the East Coast right?)

Friday, September 11 at 10:30pm
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30pm

We're going on 9/11. Any other Philly area folks thinking about it? Maybe we can stop for a drink before or after?

Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.playsandplayers.org/performance/super
Not too late if you're in the Philly area. Just called the box office and there are 36 tickets left out of the 324 seat venue! I'll be wearing a black t-shirt with the Madonna (Jesus' mom, not the pop singer) on it. If you're there, say hi!

[DeltaBadhand]

My friend, Anthony (who will be a member here), posted this on his FB page. I think it's an amazing piece of publicity: a dramatic reading of the first issue of Wonder Woman from 1942.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090905_Comics_come_to_life__and_a_welcome_Becket tian_reprise.html

We went to see this, "Super Heroes who are super!" last night and it was a blast. 10 actors read the origin story (Wonder Woman #1 had 4 stories while seated in a semi-circle. The places was packed, they actually had to bring in extra chairs from a bar that adjoins the theater because of the number of folks who showed up without tickets.

No one wore costumes, per se, but Diana wore a tiara and red dress with crystals across the front that actually reminded me of Donna's red jumpsuit Wonder Girl costume. Steve Trevor wore a suit, Aphrodite wore a white pantsuit with a small golden thread tied around here head, etc.

From what I can tell, they read the issue word for word. A narrorator really hammed it up old school radio style with his delivery, while the rest of them played it for comedy with a dead-pan-serious-while-winking-at-the-audience approach. For the most part, they would stay near their seats, standing when delivering lines -though the moved around when their was physical action (like fight scenes) but they didn't really perform the actions.

What I found most interesting was what I didn't know. Might be common knowledge to everyone else, but here goes:
1. Steve DIED in WW #1. The other amazons were questioning why Diana was still working on the purple healing ray, but when she used it on Steve's body, he came back to life.
2. Mala was a big character. She was portrayed as Diana's best friend and she was with Diana when they found Steve. And she was they 2nd to last Amazon left in the tournament, being elemimated when her best friend Diana shot her in the tournament.
3. Diana was portrayed as a bit of a free spirit. She really challenged her mother in a couple of places. And when she first got the lasso she used it to make an Amazon doctor stand on her head.

Overal, the piece was really cool. Really fun and I hated when it ended. The guy who played Hercules as Arnold Schwarzenegger was very funny. And Diana did a good job as not appearing as silly even though her dialog made that hard sometimes.