She sees battle as a negative, something she's against. Morrison: I think it's about the way she sees the world. Why is mercy so important for Diana, even toward these unmerciful enemies? Wonder Woman is prepping for battle and she asks the question, 'How do we finish them with mercy?” Nrama: Speaking of Diana's character, there's a moment I really like for the beginning of the volume. Diana's not here to replace her mother, she's there to recommit her mother. It's just a very different, timeless way of looking at the motion of the story. Diana's always a princess, and she's always a mother, and she's always a queen and so is Hippolyta. Really what we're trying to get at is this underlying eternal circle.

Those struggles and those big battles between opposites have disappeared. It's not about the overthrow of old structures, which is kind of our place in history, where we are right now. So I was thinking about ideas like that and how the Amazons would view the, and it's not about the Boy King seizing his inheritance and replacing his father. (Image credit: Yanick Paquette/Nathan Fairbairn/Todd Klein (DC)) (opens in new tab) I thought the Amazons might see that differently, see it in terms of natural growth and budding. The Big Bang, for instance, is very much a masculine metaphor of Genesis. I was getting down to the root of Amazonian culture and wondering what might be their philosophy, what would be their take on science.

It replaces the Big Bang and the Birth of the Universe with more something that's more of a flowering. Morrison: It kind of replaces a line with a circle. Nrama: Something else that I've read you wanted to do with this volume was avoid Joseph Campbell's predominantly male hero's journey. So this is totally about Marston and about those ideas and how I've thought of them. I wanted to see the actual moment that the Republic of Harmonia became possible, and the story that led to that. It presents this utopian society of Harmonia, and in that Harmonia there's one disharmonious element which is the 'Manly Party,” or the 'Purple Shirts.” I wanted to get to that point at the end of the book in the Earth One stories. It's set a thousand years in the future and I think it's called 'Wonder Woman for President.' There is a particular story, I think it's in Wonder Woman #7 (opens in new tab), which is probably 1940 or '41. I had read a lot of William Moulton Marston stuff. Way back when I started out on these three books, I was doing a lot of research.

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