Just a comparison of everybody has reached their full potential - except for her. Not only is she the only child, but everybody else is a perfect, immortal, amazing, adult warrior. Shannon Hale: So not only is she an only child, but she's the only child.
Tell me a little more about what inspired you to explore Diana's loneliness with this graphic novel. I mean, I'm sure it's there, but to be able to be part of that was great. I hadn't really seen that with Wonder Woman. I felt this is a really great story to explore those more universal feelings.ĭean Hale: I love those becoming stories, like Smallville or Gotham or even Enterprise for Star Trek, when you're able to see the ingredients that ultimately become this iconic thing. Although they're not the only kid in their world, everyone has felt like the oddball or the weird one and something's different about me and have felt lonely. What would that have felt like? And as a storyteller, I'm really intrigued by an idea like that. She grew up on Themiscyra as the only child in her entire world. Part of why I wanted to do Diana, personally, is not only because I have always loved Wonder Woman, but because I thought her story as a kid would be so fascinating. They were like, "You know, if you could pick any character, what would your dream character be? What would you want to do?" Diana was our first choice and honestly I didn't think we were gonna be so lucky as to write Wonder Woman! They said yeah, so that was a dream come true. When we first talked to editors at DC, they were awesome.
Shannon Hale: We first started with Diana. RELATED: Wonder Woman's Tween Adventures Revealed in New DC Graphic NovelĬBR: What drew you to Wonder Woman, of all the characters in the DC canon? They also discussed the importance of showing diverse bodies and relationships, why it was key to show Diana making mistakes and more.
They revealed what drew them to Wonder Woman of all the characters in the DC canon, how they realized they wanted to explore the loneliness of her childhood and why Diana and Hippolyta's changing relationship seemed like the perfect jumping-off point to start the story. Speaking to CBR, Diana: Princess of the Amazons writers Shannon and Dean Hale and artist Victoria Ying opened up the world of Themiscyra.
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