So the internet is all totally on fire because Wonder Woman changed her clothes. Cool. Hater’s gonna hate. Defenders gonna defend. Commentators gonna comment.

I mean, I think she’s done it quite a few times, so it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me, but this one is being billed as a (or THE) big costume change. Honestly, though, having studied the timeline so much at this point, I think we’d really have to see if it sticks before talking about how big a deal it is.

Anyway, check it out. Pants! I think pants are good, right?

The leather jacket is a thing. Does it mean..

1. Leather jackets are back in? Is it even leather? Maybe it’s pleather. Or that weird synthetic stuff.

2. Wonder Woman is wearing it out of a slightly dated desire to be cool?

3. Wonder Woman really loves the Black Canary’s outfit and wanted in on the look?

4. She’s actually wearing it as a retro/ironic style statement?

It’s probably the irony, right?

The best thing about the jacket, probably, is now she has something to take off before she whups someone. You know… “uh-oh.. Jacket’s coming off.”

I’m fine with losing the flag look. I like the idea of her being more international.

Honestly, at first I wasn’t that into it, but after a day of seeing it again and again and again all over the internet, it’s kind of grown on me. Doesn’t it remind you a bit of her 90′s look? The one when she “wasn’t” Wonder Woman during the Challenge of Artemis arc?

Ok, I’ve spent way too much time thinking about superhero fashion today.

Not like I’ve cared when the Blue Beetle changed costumes. Or Guy Gardner wore that belly shirt. Well, maybe a little.

In related news (because it’s also in issue 600, though it features the old costume) this pin up by Adam Hughes is pretty great:

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My favorite part is the girl in the background flexing. She kind of looks like Wondertot, actually, but I’m pretty sure she’s just an inspiring metaphor.

Update: Here we go, Yet Another Comics Blog posted a run down of her costumes through the years.

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DC is bringing back the military action:

This September, DC will bring back a number of familiar war titles in a series of one shots from a number of the best and brightest creators in the industry, including Darwyn Cooke and Ivan Brandon on WEIRD WAR TALES, B. Clay Moore and Chad Hardin on OUR FIGHTING FORCES, the return of OUR ARMY AT WAR, William Tucci and Justiniano on STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES and Matt Surges and artist Phil Winslade on G.I. COMBAT, with each issue sporting a cover from an A-list pool of artists that include Cooke, Mark Schultz, Geof Darrow, Joe Kubert and Brian Bolland.

Eff yes! I’m actually pretty excited about this stuff. I’ve just started getting into the non-superhero DCU of ages past and this is super awesome.

Check out these two covers that were posted over at The Source.

This stuff better make it into trade. I’m jus’ sayin. And I’m hoping it’s successful enough to get some ongoing titles going.

I hope that there are some trades worth of new WWII tales, sure, but I also hope they do some other eras. And not in just one off stories in hard to place anthology style volumes – it would be really great if they did full arcs in WWI (for one, it seems so under appreciated as a war setting. It was The Big One in its day!), some really historical stuff in the Revolutionary War era, and then do a world tour of some non-american-centric onflicts.

All with that Weird War Stories vibe, of course. Haunted Russian Tank? Yes. Sgt. Račak? Sure, lets hear it – I’ve never read a comic about the kosovo war.

On a totally unrelated note, Daniel pointed out that I got Wrath of Gog and In The Name of Gog switched up. Not sure how it happened, but it’s fixed now!

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