Polygon.com / 27.02.25

Why Absolute Wonder Woman's creators rewrote her as a literal witch from hell

Like her Gotham City counterpart Batman, Wonder Woman leapt into DC Comics blockbuster Absolute line a starting-from-scratch setting where the odds stacked against DCs classic superheroes are higher than ever with a striking new look. Astride a red-eyed skeletal pegasus, Diana sports tattooed arms, a buster sword, a black-and-red color scheme, and (perhaps most controversially) pants.  Over the subsequent issues of Absolute Wonder Woman, writer Kelly Thompson and artist Hayden Sherman slowly unpacked their vision of the character, as fits DCs darker, more dire Absolute Universe. By divine decree, this version of Diana of Themyscira was abandoned in hell as an infant, where she was lovingly (though reluctantly, at first) raised by the witch Circe, traditionally one of her greatest enemies. Absolute Diana swings swords and flings lassos, but also communes with Hecate and casts spells. And the weird thing about putting a witchy filter over Wonder Woman, according to Thompson, is that it...
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