Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Publication date | 2008 |
| Number of issues | 6 (Wonder Woman (Vol. 3) #26-31 |
| Main character(s) | Wonder Woman |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Gail Simone |
| Artist(s) | Aaron Lopresti |
Rise of the Olympian is the name of an upcoming story arc, that is also an event storyline, featuring Wonder Woman, with writting by Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti.
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DC Comics and Gail Simone felt that the Wonder Woman events, even event-styled stories, were always "shotgun" (for example, the bashed Amazons Attack! event). Where Diana was a changing character in vision, Gail wanted to keep Diana as a consistent, cohesive vision for readers who they can rally behind. One of them that she had been doing since her debut arc, The Circle, was re-establishing Diana from her grace, her power, and as she says, her role as "the DCU's best asskicker". But other than that, it was also the re-establishing of her supporting cast, such as Queen Hippolyta and the rest of the Amazons.
In her interview with Newsarama.com, Gail gave out her plans for the event storyline. She promised new characters, new villains, new threats, ending it with "new everything". Some of the characters are going to have a planned big impact on the DCU, a "one much-loved, much-feared character" will return from the dead, and the story itself is to be "a huge new chapter in the Wonder Woman mythology". She also pointed out that Themyscira plays a role, and from after what happened in Amazons Attack!, the Amazons themselves are going to return. She even went as to explain that because they are "artists, hunters, warriors, poets, and lovers", the Amazons are a "cool concept in the DCU". She also confirmed Hippolyta plays a role, and the story point from The Circle where Diana asked the help of Kane Milohai will show the consequences from swearing loyalty to another god. She has even compared this storyline akin to Knightfall.
In the discussion of the Olympian; as a joke, she had said that it’s about a Wonder Woman who is a man. By Dan Didio, he made a joke title that he said he wanted to become the actual title of "Manazons". Gail explains that it’s about a well-intentioned god who seeks to keep the promise of the Amazons by re-creating their entire ideal in his own image. An insight on this was seen in DC Universe #0 where two gods make mention on how Diana has "failed" on bringing peace, and in showing a race of male warriors, one of them says "changing the world is not a job for women, it's a job for men".[1]
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