Back in mid-December, I posted about how Jodi Picoult was taking over writing duties on Wonder Woman. December 12, actually. 104 days ago.
Earlier this month, I posted a follow-up about how Jodi was leaving and her eventual successor was going to be fan-favorite Gail Simone. 13 days ago.
Today, CNN has an online feature about … Oh, hai … Jodi Picoult — “serious novelist” — will be writing herself some Wonder Woman!
But potential jibes about the relative speed of “old media” aside, what caught my eye and rendered it askew was Picoult’s particular observation of how WW is just like any other woman. (Bolding mine.)
Recent events in the DC universe find Wonder Woman … struggling with her place in the world.
“She is not human and elevating herself to the level of a superhero like Batman or Green Lantern. Instead, she is other than human and she’s slumming it with all of us,” Picoult observes.
[Diana] Prince’s struggle is further complicated by work as an agent for the Government’s Department of Metahuman Affairs — for which her assignment is apprehending none other than Wonder Woman.
In a rare moment of vulnerability, she tearfully asks her partner, Tom Tresser, “Why don’t people just leave her alone?” Seconds later, duty calls — and Wonder Woman is forced into action.
It’s a moment that Picoult says any woman can relate to.
“You have your pity fit, you do what you have to do. But then, you move on. You just pick up the pieces, and you jump in. And that ultimately, is always going to be Diana’s strength.”
Pity fit? I’m sorry, correct me please if I am wrong, but I don’t think Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, descendent from the Goddesses of Mount Olympus, ever has anything that one could describe as a pity fit.
