Superman and Wonder Woman are taking their relationship to the next level! DC Comics announced a brand new Superman/Wonder Woman series by Charles Soule (Swamp Thing) and Tony Daniel (Batman, Action Comics, Detective Comics) coming this October.
Soule tells Comics Newsarama how he sees the two teammates turned lovers:
“I think they’re very similar in a lot of ways, which is partly why they were attracted to each other in the first place, but I also think Superman and Wonder are extremely different.
You know, one grew up in a sort of cloistered society on Paradise Island, where she was trained to be a warrior, and had the gods running around and so-on, so-forth, whereas Superman grew up in Kansas and had to grow into his powers not really knowing who he was and where he came from.
So culturally, I think they’re extraordinarily different people. And the way they approach their own powers and their own identity and their role in the world is very different.
At the same time, I think in the entire DCU, maybe you’ve got a hundred people who actually can fly, and Superman and Wonder Woman happen to be two of them. So there are things that only the two of them can talk about. So it’s great to be able to write those conversations and have them do the things that only the two of them can do, while also learning all the things that are different about each other.”
Soule teases which rogues will take on the ultimate power couple:
“Villains for Superman, Wonder Woman, the DC Universe at large and even new characters.
Part of the challenge of this is it’s hard enough to find a legitimate challenge for Superman and Wonder Woman alone, but you put them both together, and the challenge is obviously at least doubled.
So what we’re going to try to do is create challenges for them that reflect in some way, or comment in some way about the relationship they’re having — not in a way that’s sort of slavish and a little too on the nose. That’s what the best villains accomplish. They comment on the heroes. So the challenges and situations that I’ll put them in are going to be things that are relevant to, or reflected in some way in what’s going on in their relationship at the time, which is a fun way to write, and I think it’ll be a fun way to read.”
While the book is about the relationship between Kal and Diana, Soule says this is not strictly a romance series:
“The book is, at its heart, a huge, epic, action-filled story. I mean, you have to have that with these characters, with the things these people can do, what these characters are outfittedly capable of, and then the types of guys that come gunning for them. It’s going to be huge.
I wouldn’t necessarily want to write or read a book that was them sitting in the back of a taxi having an argument or something like that.
The stories will be written on a scale that befits these characters.
But at the same time, I personally think it’s fascinating to think about what they would say to each other, what they talk about, the way they have different approaches to solving the world’s problems. I think that’s grounds that have been sometimes explored here and there — I mean, there are books that have walked down this sort of path — but I think there’s a lot more that can be said. And that’s one of the things that really interested me about the project in the first place. And I look forward to exploring it.”
For the entire interview and Tony Daniel’s take on the upcoming series here’s the Comics Newsarama link.
By Editor