Dear Someone

Last year I started entering writing competitions on Mark Millar’s forum. This was just for fun and to get some feedback from other writers, but now I have a page for unpublished writing on my site, I have a place to store the entries for posterity.

The theme of the first competition was to take an established comic character and “re-imagine” a new origin for the character. I chose Wonder Woman.

(Wonder Woman is a registered trademark of DC Comics and no challenge to the trademark is intended, blah blah.)

My main aim in the script was to retain the iconography of the character while completely changing the origin, and to see how the new origin would inevitably produce a different character with a completely different set of morals and values. I had fun writing it but it’s not a version of Wonder Woman I would actually want to read.

I have no idea how to write a Wonder Woman comic that I would personally like to read. I hope somebody manages it some day, though. Wonder Woman is a character that many writers have failed to handle properly. The character concept is so perfect, but so many people write bad stories for her… maybe it’s not possible to tell any more great Wonder Woman stories, and the character’s potential has been exhausted. I hope not…

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