Morrison’s Wonder Woman Has a New Title

The Grant Morrison Wonder Woman project commonly referred to as Wonder Woman: Earth One has a new title. On the Kevin Smith podcast, Fatman on Batman, Morrison said the title is actually Wonder Woman: The Trial of Diana Prince.

Like just about every interview he’s given on the project, Morrison goes on and on about sex. In this case he goes also discusses the life of the creator William Marston and his relationships with his wives. I have to say it’s a little off putting the way the Morrison chooses to describe their life as weird and laughs as he talks about it given that the Marston family is still around.

I also have to say that while I’ve tried to be a little good humored about Morrison’s inability to discuss Wonder Woman without discussing sex it is becoming a bit tiresome and veering into problematic.

In this interview he sets up how the Amazon’s created Paradise Island where everything is “frozen” after 100 years. He notes that during that 100 years the Amazon have “all fucked each other” and created all their buidlings and science. His story picks up 7000 years later.

Morrison seems to following origin story of having Steve Trevor arrive on the island and then Wonder Woman runs off with him. “It’s almost the classic Disney Princess story … that ends with this weird bondage”

She finds out that “Man’s World” is actually “Man and woman world”. The Amazons aren’t thrilled with her activities and send the Gorgon to bring her back to the island for a trial.

Morrison suggests the relationship between Hippolytta and Diana will be strained noting at one point how Diana has a mother “who looks as hot as she does.”

Also Morrison says the claybaby origin makes Diana “creepy” and he has found a way to work around it while still keeping the idea of a woman creating another woman.

During the trial at the centerpiece of the book Steve Trevor addresses the court and explains what men like and dislike about women in a very honest way.

Morrison says he got 20 pages of the 120 page book done.

You can listen to the entire interview here

Here’s a page of Yanick Paquette’s art from the book.