This is what happens to spent icons. For a lot of people, she winds up being about the costume. Growing up, Jimenez loved Wonder Woman. After high school in Orange County, Calif., he set out for New York in the early '90s to draw professionally. Stories unfold one panel at a time, leading to bigger panels, two-page spreads, building toward some unexpected bang.
Love stories can be that way, too.
Pozner died of AIDS in 1994. Coincidentally or otherwise, the more reverent of WW's stewards and loyal fans tend to be gay men. Which is so not like her. Her Amazon bracelets, which she uses to deflect bullets, are actually symbols of her tribe's enslavement under Hercules. Sometimes an enemy will cut them off, and WW goes berserk.