JMS Takes Over Superman and Wonder Woman
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?This morning, DC announced that J. Michael Straczynski would be taking over writing duties on both Wonder Woman and Superman in July. This made me wonder: “JMS is writing for DC now?” Then I remembered he actually left Marvel and signed an exclusive contract with DC years ago, and basically hasn’t done anything — at least not as top tier as he’d done at Marvel… until now. Then I wondered, “What crazy-ass shit is JMS going to pull with Superman and Wonder Woman?” Because whenever I think of JMS and comic books, all I can think about is The Other and Spider-Man being some African spider-god and eating a vampire’s face. This is totally unfair to JMS, since he’s written many things that were fine, including large chunks of Spider-Man, but in other ways it’s still fair because holy shit that shit was fucking terrible. Anyways, I don’t know what to make of this. DC fans, help me out?
PS — If you do a Google Image Search for “Superman Wonder Woman” and ignore all the pics of the two of them with Batman, all that’s left are pictures of Superman punching Wonder Woman or pictures of Superman graphically fucking Wonder Woman. Wacky!
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