Q for Joanna....

[minutekev@50]

Is it just a coincidence that your a big fan and that the new Wonder Girl shares your last name?!?! Just caught that reading the new Teen Titans last night...

Or is this something that has been discussed before and I've totally missed...

[Joanna]

Is it just a coincidence that your a big fan and that the new Wonder Girl shares your last name?!?! Just caught that reading the new Teen Titans last night...

Or is this something that has been discussed before and I've totally missed...

 

No, not a coincidence. She was named after me.

[ArAich]

Is it just a coincidence that your a big fan and that the new Wonder Girl shares your last name?!?! Just caught that reading the new Teen Titans last night...

Or is this something that has been discussed before and I've totally missed...

 

No, not a coincidence. She was named after me.

 

 

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[minutekev@50]

So how did that come about? I recall reading a post where you actually worked with DC on revising Wonder Woman's origin? (Or Something like that)...

[Joanna]

So how did that come about? I recall reading a post where you actually worked with DC on revising Wonder Woman's origin? (Or Something like that)...

 

I wrote her origin for Secret Files, but that came later.

 

Basically, I started writing letters to the editor every month, giving my opinion of the issues. When Paul Kupperberg took over as editor, he took a shine to me (though I gave him a hard time for some of the things in the book). John Byrne signed on to write/illustrate the book and Paul told him to contact me for background information, continuity, and general knowledge of the character. John IM'd me on AOL (everyone was on AOL back then -- we're talking a long time ago), we started talking and within a short time felt like we'd known each other forever. Not being a Marvel fan, I knew very little of John's work. Just his Superman stuff. Despite this lacking (nothing gave him more fun than laughing at my ignorance about all things Marvel), we formed a fast friendship.

 

One day, early in our discussions, he told me he was introducing a new supporting cast and was going to create a new Wonder Girl. They had an Italian last name and I facetiously lamented that there were no good Scandinavian characters anymore. The next thing I knew, the characters had my last name. It was entirely unexpected (I had been joking, and he knew that I had been) but pretty darn cool. He always claimed that I was Cassie's Aunt Joanna.

 

-- Joanna

 

 

[minutekev@50]

 

Cool beans! And now, as Paul Harvey would say, we know "the rest of the story.."