Wonder Woman Gets a New Costume After 69 Years

(PHOTO: Wonder Woman's New Costume)
Wonder Woman has been around for 69-years, although she's only about 30 in the comics. Wonder Woman's comic book hit number 600 this week!
The monthly Wonder Woman comic is published by DC Comics and this issue marks a HUGE change for Wonder Woman. She'll don a new — and less revealing — costume. The costume ties into an alternative history for the character devised by J. Michael Straczynski, the new writer of the series, and into a quest by DC to shine a critical and creative spotlight on the heroine, who stands with Superman and Batman in its primary triumvirate of superstars, despite her series’s modest sales.
In the revised storyline, Wonder Woman is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants (instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters). *I personally would rather keep the greek island theme*
“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Mr. Straczynski wrote. “If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.” The new costume was designed by the artist Jim Lee, who in February was named co-publisher of DC, alongside Dan DiDio.
Straczynski added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”
The new costume will almost certainly be better received than the curveball thrown Wonder Woman in 1968, when she lost her powers, dressed mod and practiced martial arts. It took the attention of no less than Gloria Steinem to protest the change, and to help get the Amazon back into her star-spangled duds. Ms. Steinem went on to use Wonder Woman, resplendent in red, white and blue, on the cover of the first issue of Ms. magazine in 1972.