Quote Originally Posted by Fate's Faith View Post
I did scan though some Superman titles of the time of the second series run and while you do see a few non-action shots its significately lower. I know it was a silly exercise that doesn't take into account that female characters are more likely to have posed covers and that landmark issues are more likely to have 'inspirational' covers as opposed to some type of action shot. But it supported my push back on the idea that Wonder Woman has been ruined in the current run given that she had basically become a symbol and treated as such in her second run which was far more ruining of the character for me. I went back to the first run because her status quo was similiar to what the second run went with but she was a more dynamic character then. Just compare the imagery of issue #1 deflecting a shower of arrows (or my favorite #8 with her dropping down firing the pistols of Eros) to her original first issue of her on a horse jumping into a cluster of Nazis. Then look at Perez's first issue. That's the disconnect of what the character was. Woman of action versus a symbol. She not only became just a slogan but her second run also pushed her status of super-hero behind her status of missionary. There was a real dislike it seems of her having the full range of emotions that didn't exist in the first run. Its not like I don't understand her as a symbol of feminism but the idea that cost us the actual character in the process. We need to keep repeating that she became that symbol back when she wasn't trying to be a symbol.
I think Perez cover is beautiful, and besides he was telling the whole history of the Amazons.

And as far as the first run goes, while it may have had some great covers it also scenes like Diana sobbing becuase she didn't know how to cook Steve dinner, or apologizing to him for having to tell the truth in a court of law about him threatening someone while he treats her like an ass from his jail cell.

If you look at the Jimenez run, it has lots of Adam Hughes "pose" covers,



but the content of the book is actually much more action oriented. What we have not seen as much in recent years is covers like this...