David Finch and the “F-word” or Knowing When to Shut Up when Grown Folks are Talking about Wonder Woman

As the creative team on the current run of Wonder Woman nears a close, the married writing team of Meredith (the writer) and David (the illustrator) Finch have been announced to take over at issue #36 (or in about 4 months). Somehow, miraculously, Mr Finch (the one NOT scripting the story) left a little nugget in the last words of their first interview with CBR: “We want her to be a strong— I don’t want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful and strong.” As you might imagine, everyone flipped out because he called her “beautiful” and we all know that the standards of beauty are changing and not all so called “beautiful” women look like Diana Prince…yeah, I’m bullshittin’, it was the feminist part. I’d love to say I get what David was trying to say, but then he defended himself by saying: “I wasn’t saying Wonder Woman is not for being equal, and therefore a feminist. I just want her to be a human being, fallible and real.” LAWD…David, welcome to the all too frequent club of giving yourself more golden lasso of truth to hang yourself with. I had no idea that all those women I met who called themselves feminist were actually subversive aliens that had infiltrated our society and just happened to look like women. Like Skrulls, David, you thought feminists were Skrulls! Except that’s Marvel, not DC…you know what, never mind.

I do imagine that David isn’t intending to insult feminists or that he has some subconscious disdain for feminists. I just think he has no ide…