Jill Thompson to be working on Wonder Woman soon?

[slvn]

Thompson doing work on WW would be great, and sorry as I'd be to see Chiang go, at this point with the style-guide being pretty substantial, her doing a team-up with Azz could be cool.

That said, she's fairly acquainted with Morrison too, and he's still got his Wonder Woman story in the works. Personally I'm hoping it's that.

Her three Wonder Women in the Bleeding Cool piece looked different enough that I thought she could be working on a Wonder Woman-centric portion of Morrison's Multiversity, involving different versions of the character on different universes.

But then again, she sounds kind of proprietary about her Wonder Woman and the story she wants to do, and she is a writer as well as an artist, so I'm thinking it's more likely a limited series that she would write and illustrate.

[chastmastr]

But then again, she sounds kind of proprietary about her Wonder Woman and the story she wants to do, and she is a writer as well as an artist, so I'm thinking it's more likely a limited series that she would write and illustrate.

Fingers crossed. It could even be a WW suitable for all ages, which would be very cool indeed!!

[wagthedog]

God, I hope Jill does not work as artist on this book. It would be a serious downgrade from Chiang. Chiang would be preferable to Jill, and I don't even like Chiangs art.

Her run on Wonder Woman earlier was very poor, IMO. If I remember right, she was on the 2 part Deathstroke vs Wonder Woman and I don't think the art left us drooling for more, even though she still got the gig to draw more issues.

Not a fan, as if you couldn't tell.

[FailureByDesign]

Chaing's art is just as much a reason to read as the writing, if he goes..

[Don-Jack]

Perhaps she will do the fill-ins instead of Akins? I wouldn't mind that.

[SteveGus]

I think she probably counts as the worst artist ever on the post-Crisis WW. Worse than Lee Moder, and that's saying something. Her Diana tended to look more like Groucho Marx.

She's a very talented fantasy cartoonist, where her non-figurative style works better. But she just isn't a superhero artist.

[yvahed]

She's a great artist but her WW is not my fave. Maybe for an annual.

[no1wonderfan]

Her 90's stuff was OK. I didn't mind it for the short period it was used. But those newer images are terrible. Gag! I'm so tired of a cartoony WW.

[chastmastr]

I'm so tired of a cartoony WW.

Have we had a cartoony WW very much in recent years?

[John Ossie]

I really, really dislike this Wondy image. Seriously.

No disrespect to Cher, because I love Cher, but this is what it would look like if she wore Wondy's costume today. Not cute. Not pretty. Not impressive. No thank you.

Yeah can't say I'm impressed with the image either.

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This one is better, but I'm still not thrilled. I saw some Thompson work in Bizarro Comics that I thought was fantastic compared to her WW run, and her art for the story in WW #120, well after her regular run, was pretty good too-- but I still remember how bad that regular run was. Wonder Woman herself looked awful, with her wet-noodle insignia, her weird wasp-woman body, her granny panties, her bushy eyebrows, her cauliflower nose.

I guess it depends on the project. Not the regular series, I hope.

She sure looks like an old granny in that image lol.

[sberg1]

Have we had a cartoony WW very much in recent years?

Do we need a cartoony WW? Ever?

No. No we do not. Not in any book that matters anyway.

[chastmastr]

Do we need a cartoony WW? Ever?

No. No we do not. Not in any book that matters anyway.

Well, I was responding to the other poster being "tired" of cartoony WW, which suggests that we've had some recently. Though I suppose it depends on what one means by "cartoony." Certainly I think Thompson's work here is very good and "cartoony" wouldn't be one of the words I'd use to describe it.

One could also debate the question of "needing" or "not needing" any artistic style of any character--or, for that matter, what a "book that matters" is...