Ann & Weezy
April 16th, 2007 by david brothers | Tags: Batman, daredevil, harley quinn, Marvel comics, poison ivy, scarlet witch, steel, wonder womanLet me go ahead and get this out of the way. Gail Simone on Wonder Woman got the same reaction from me that J. Torres doing a fill-in on WW did. None.
I haven’t liked her last year and a half of work or so. Villains United was okay, but I didn’t even finish Secret Six. BoP started off great (that first year or two was stellar), too, but even that feels like it fell off. Gen13 and All-New Atom? No thanks. I don’t know, I think that my tastes are changing or something, but her work just doesn’t click with me like it used to. No slight to her, or at least I hope not, it just ain’t my thing.
It got me thinking, though. Who could get me to read Wonder Woman? I came up with two names who I think would be pretty dope on the book, and both of them are even female-type people!
Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti.
C’mon, don’t even say you wouldn’t read that.
Weezie deserves it. X-Factor, New Mutants, Man of Steel… Steel. She’s paid her dues ten times over. I shouldn’t even need to explain this one. She’s apparently written a WW novel, but I haven’t read it. I think she’d be pretty awesome on the book.
Ann Nocenti wrote some of my favorite Daredevil stories, did a Batman/Poison Ivy book a few years back with John Paul Leon (I think, it may have been John van Fleet?) that was pretty solid. I will love her forever for creating Typhoid Mary, the best she-villain that isn’t named Harley Quinn. (I really, really like Typhoid Mary and Harley.) I think that Nocenti could do a pretty bomb off-kilter WW book and deliver a book that would defy more than a few expectations. Dante’s Inferno ala Diana Prince. Or even something real world and political, she’s good at both kinds.
I may not be excited for Gail on WW, but either of these two would make me jump for joy. Shoot, Weezie is the reason why I’m going to be reading Marvel’s Mystic Arcana when I don’t even really like two of the four characters involved (Scarlet Witch and Black Knight. Magik is generally better as a kid, and Sister Grimm has a dumb codename but is pretty cool.).
Anyway, yeah. Give me Weezie and Ann. I think that they’d be worth it.
Also, c’mon Marvel, reprint this thing already.
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My dream writer for WW would probably be Carla Speed McNeil of Finder
I haven’t read Finder, but I’ve heard great things about McNeil!
I disagree with you re: Gail on Wonder Woman, but I’d love to see Nocenti back somewhere. I’d actually prefer to see Nocenti on the Bat.
Yeah, actually, she’d be great on Bats. I’d like to see her take on more of the Arkham inmates, as I seem to remember her treatment of them in the Batman/Poison Ivy book being solid.
That would be John Van Fleet, my good man.
http://www.thebaluch.com – Nocenti’s working on a docu about these people.
I spent a lot of last evening reading that, Dan. Thanks for the tip!