Vintonville » Wonder Woman http://www.vintonville.com The life and times of a guy, his Lady-Friend, a Little Dude and a Little Sis. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:43:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Nerd Alert http://www.vintonville.com/childhood-stuff/nerd-alert/ http://www.vintonville.com/childhood-stuff/nerd-alert/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:10:48 +0000 Dan http://www.vintonville.com/?p=3647 When I was a kid, I was gifted a stack of comic books. One of them was Wonder Woman. I pretended I wasn’t interested in “that girl comic” but man, she had cleavage. Whether I noticed that because of hard-wired genetics or months of breast-feeding, the world may never know. What I do know is in the bodice-filled, starry underpantsed pages of that Wonder Woman comic book, I had a life-changing revelation: “Chicks are foxy.”

And that’s why my brief run-in with Wonder Woman circa 1979 qualifies me to comment on the new “We need to resuscitate this character so we’re changing her look but we only plan on keeping this change for a few years at most” Wonder Woman costume switch just announced by DC comics.

Unfortunately, it was designed by the same dude (comic book artist Jim Lee) who redesigned The X-Men costumes in the 90′s. With Wonder Woman on the left and X-Men‘s 90′s era Rogue on the right, one thing is clear: chicky, shoulder-padded leather jackets and gloves will never be restrained by petty things like “out of style” and “fashion boundaries”.

That said, if you’re thinking “geek”/”this post is lame”, well… I can’t argue with that.

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