Greg Rucka said Wonder Woman’s queer identity was important to the narrative. Photograph: Frank Cho/DC Comics.
Wonder Woman is queer, her writer has confirmed: “I don’t know how much clearer I can make it”.
Greg Rucka, who worked on Wonder Woman for DC Comics throughout the 2000s, returned to DC Comics this year for the new Rebirth series commemorating her 75th year in print.
He told the comic news site Comicosity the character had “obviously” been in love and relationships with other women, as has long been speculated by fans.
Wonder Woman is known as the warrior princess Diana in her homeland of Themyscira, an island populated only by Amazonian women.
The confirmation was met with celebration on social media.
That said, Rucka then goes on, practically choking in his need to say this doesn’t mean there should be any sort of queer storylines, no. I suppose acknowledgement is a good thing, but representation sure would be nice. Really nice.
Full story at The Guardian.
I suppose if it were going to be part of story line anyway. I think the best way would be to ‘throw it in’ as if it were no big deal, although having a super powered person dealing with the normal bigotry of assholes might also be entertaining.