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QUESTION: Will Wonder Woman have a costume change?
ADAM HUGHES: No. I don't feel the need to make my own changes. I'm going to take the best bits and retell the origin story of Wonder Woman.
When he was doing covers on the Walt Simonson story run, he had to deal with Wonder Woman's haircut and "Um, didn't we just invade another country, isn't there something more significant?"
He wants the fans to have a very iconic image and wants it to attract old fans back. "It's going to look a lot like my covers."
QUESTION: How do you draw the Lasso?
ADAM HUGHES: The bad thing about WW is that she doesn't have a cape.
It's her, her hair, and her lack of pants and a top and cape. Anybody who's seen Spawn knows that capes can be really important.
The lasso is not a "quart of overcooked pasta" and I like to have fun with its shape and design.
QUESTION: Are there any other DC Superheroes in All Star WW.
ADAM HUGHES: No. I don't want to define her relationship to Superman or Batman. I want to show her carving out her own book.
(He made several jokes about Frank Miller's All-Star Batman and Robin. "I don't think I'm old enough to read it")
Hughes wants to do "lots of dark haired women on Paradise Island."
QUESTION: Do you have any other writing credits?
ADAM HUGHES: Gen 13 Ordinary Heroes. I had to convince Dan DiDio that I could write.
QUESTION: Will she have an Invisible Jet? Will Steve Trevor be around?
ADAM HUGHES: I don't like the invisible jet, but I want to put it in the
story somehow. I like Wonder Woman as a character who can fly.
Steve Trevor is in the book. I'm trying to keep Steve cool enough that he could float his own book. He's the quintessential American guy, a cross between young Steve McQueen, Race Bannon and Chuck Yeager.
The idea of a princess from a mystical island ... and her guide to the world of man is a laconic guy.
QUESTION: Who'd you like to draw?
ADAM HUGHES: Captain America. I realize he's dead at the moment.
I have told Joe Quesada Marvel that I would like to do a Cap WWII story.
QUESTION: Will there be variant covers for WW?
ADAM HUGHES: No. I want to do seven covers.
QUESTION: What are you doing with the interior art?
ADAM HUGHES: Pencilling and Inking, and I will consult with Laura Martin
for colors.
QUESTION: Is there an issue with your finished product only existing digitally?
ADAM HUGHES: Brian Bolland is all digital these days. Which horrifies my girlfriend (who sells his art). But for the most part this is not an issue. Just fewer paintings from him. Happy to go all digital for that.
QUESTION: WW the character of Devastation? Catwoman covers, how much story info?
ADAM HUGHES: Feels that WW does not have a really strong rogue's gallery,
most of her best villains are created by George Perez. The idea of making Devastation a child came from AH. "If she can do this as a six year old, what will she be like when she grows up?"
He gave her a crown of thorns to "piss off the Christians."
But none of the interior artists really could draw her as a child, so she got aged up.
Some times he gets the whole script, but sometimes just a synopsis. He works with the art director at DC, and not the individual editors when it comes to cover ideas and say on what he can or can't do.
"The best Catwoman covers are the ones where they don't bother me." He had lots of fun with the Lone Wolf and Cub homage cover -- his original idea was overruled.
QUESTION: Will the Gods be in A-SWW?
ADAM HUGHES: I don't want to give too much away. I love Perez's take on
that. I'm taking some from that, the Golden Age version, and my own stuff.
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