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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 34 – The Wonder Woman Episode
Description: In this episode, Curt and Kevin prepare for the long-awaited Wonder Woman movie with a look at the comic-book origins of everyone's favorite Amazon, including her brief introduction in 1941's All-Star Comics #8 and her debut in the pages of her very own magazine, 1942's Wonder Woman #1, published by DC Comics! After that, it's on to a more contemporary take on the character's formative years, as writer and artist Jill Thompson presents us with a Princess Diana we haven't seen before — brash, bratty and a tad unsympathetic — in the Eisner Award-nominated 2016 graphic novel Wonder Woman: The True Amazon! Can the headstrong youn...