Honestly, this one’s for mom and her teenage daughter, but not for your eight-year-old daughter, unless you want her to kill Dad,” Morrison quipped. “I hope it’s for teenage girls and for their mothers. It’s a story about a mother and a daughter, Hippolyta and Diana. I grew up with a sister and a mother, and my father was kind of estranged. I watched this dynamic and it’s really about that. I think that’s what creates the myth of Wonder Woman and I wanted to really play on that – this notion of mothers and daughters and how they fight and how they teach each other stuff.

Diana’s the main character, but we wanted to give a little bit of service to all the stuff that actually happened in the original myth,” he continued. “Heracles captured the Amazons and subjected them to all kinds of tortures, so the first 15 pages of our book deal with that. It’s just a big old ladies-kick-ass thing. Having read my feminist literature, I wanted to come up with the most outrageous image of the battle of the sexes to open this book, and when you see Hercules basically gloating over Hippolyta, who’s down on her knees in the mud and in chains, that’s what we wanted to do, and we work up from there, through all these different ways of looking at women – both in comics and in society. I wanted this one to be good. I want it to be something different from every other superhero book I’ve done. It’s not like a superhero comic. It’s a comic about the sexes and how we feel about one another, and how Wonder Woman represents the best of something, and should be allowed to represent it and also represent a creator’s interest, shall we say?