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New Page Added: Perfect Partners

A new page has been added to show case any figures/stature/art/craft that show case the couple as a pair.

The Princess and the Reporter

Meejay7 is one of my favorite artists. She is a fellow Superman/Wonder shipper and she has enormous talent. Her art is so realistic and full of emotion and she has done some beautiful pieces of our couple. I have an especial fondness for Clark and Diana in their civilian identities, not only visually but concept of the reporter/ambassador and farmboy/princess playing off each other. I find it infinitely more interesting than Lois and Clark. There is so much potential here that DC have not even begun to mine. I have always explored them from this angle as well as them being heroes and it is amazing how they seem to gel. Meejay has done several pieces based off fan fiction and I am going to showcase some of my favorite ones. The Princess and The Reporter was among my first stories and I adore this image so much. Even out of costume they are iconic and they look so well together.

Diana Prince and Clark Kent by

Meejay7

The Princess and the Reporter can be read in its entirety here.
http://www.supermanwonderwomanfanarchive.com/princessandreporter1.html

Kingdom Come

DC rushed to get Lois and Clark married to tie into the TV series in 1996 and irony of all ironies, Kingdom Come made its mark upon the world that year too. Everyone knows by now it was a commercial and critical success. All single issues sold extremely well and the graphic novel continues to be a perennial best seller. DC has mined this story for many plots and characters in current canon. It also has its own earth, Earth-22, in the current Multiverse. Kingdom Come was originally an Elseworld title, with a middle aged Superman and Lois Lane was dead. Two huge changes that actually did more for Superman as a relatable character to people who never got him than many other stories put together. Alex Ross' art played a major part in making this series because of the emotion and realism he was able to convey. The original concept was also his idea. But DC needed a writer to compliment Ross. This is where Mark Waid came in. The collaboration was not always an easy one, as they both had firm ideas about what they wanted but they both loved the subject matter and what they did produce was pure gold.

Kingdom Come is a look at a possible future of the DCU. It is really what happens when the world changes and two generations come into conflict with each other. Can our heroes bridge the gap? And can they evolve and change to fit the times without compromising their principles? Sometimes we all need to grow up. To me, this is what Kingdom Come is about. It's great art and great prose. It is the Return, the third step in the Hero's Journey. It is political commentary. Its themes can be applied to the world today. Not every opponent or rival in the world is all evil and everyone has a point of view. We do what we must for the greater good but who decides that? Do we appoint ourselves as the world's judge, jury and executioner or work with each other? You want to read a simple book with good guys fighting bad ones and everyone looking like pretty clones of each other? Then this book is not for you.

Superman is older and world weary and he has lost some of his human touch stones. He retires because he thinks the world does not want or need him. But, in fact, we find that they do. Desperately. He also learns this as well and that he has more to offer still, and his work and life would have only just begun. The same applies to the other heroes, like Wonder Woman and Batman. They all sort of come full circle and find themselves again even as they had temporarily lost sight of what they believed in. Even heroes can become tired and disillusioned because heroes are reflections of us looking in at ourselves as we try to do our best and sometimes we falter.

The book makes these titans seem flesh and blood. Larger than life but still humanly flawed like everyone of us. It shows that even the best of intentions sometimes can still lead to mistakes. And what makes up for it is the maturity to stand up and face your mistakes and make reparation. To never give up. It also has some of the best written sequences done for Captain Marvel. A character that largely gets left behind in today's climate of Superman and Batman as being the top dogs in comics.

Superman and Wonder Woman's romance is at the heart of this book. It lends a kind of relief in a world that at times seems so dark and devoid of hope. It shows the love of best friends finally finding each other and really, as emotional beings, we all have the propensity to love and live and be happy despite loss. If anything the gift of Clark's humanity is that life goes on and gets better. Also Superman and Wonder Woman's relationship is based off current canon. Whereby they have a romantic past and unresolved sexual tension. They are comrades in arms and close friends and do their share of supporting and disagreeing of and with each other. And so it should be with intellectual and physical equals. In Kingdom Come, the inevitable finally happens and the obstacles ( Lois, his own lack of self worth, their youth and inexperience, etc) finally have been overcome, and they start their love affair. Two mature adults who know each other very well, with none of the hangups and mind games we have and play in our youth. There has always been a tenderness and honesty in the relationship that super/wonder fans adore.

The Epilogue of the book is a gem by itself because it showcases Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman at their best. People who have a lot of love and trust for each other. Clark and Diana are a couple and they want to share a surprise with Bruce. But he already knows. They stun him back though by giving him the biggest compliment they could as a man and their friend. To be the godfather to their child. The book ends on a high note.Hope. Hope in the future. Hope in the new life and child that is going to possibly define the new generation. The child of Superman and Wonder Woman mentored by Batman. Can't get a better ending than that. Well, maybe The Justice Society of America # 22 by Ross and Johns which shows even more Kingdom Come scenes left us sighing in satisfaction even more. But that's for another time.

Superman,Wonder Woman and Krypto

Nothing more normal than walking the dog

THANKS

Thank you Donny, Fanci, Vida,Radone and Robenson for your support. :)

Art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

These images go back to the late 70ties and early 8oties even then Superman and Wonder Woman always seemed to have a special connection/rapport/bond with each other. They were done by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.

Aww, look at Wonder Tot's hand being held by Super Jr

The super/wonder jrs again

She sits with him at his desk.

Clark ,are you checking out Diana?

Two New Pages Added

She Looks Better With Your Cape.

He looks Better in Your Lasso

Images of Wonder Woman with Superman's cape and Superman in Wonder Woman's lasso. Look under Pages on the left tab and click on the title. Some may be NFFW, but they are not explicit. Thank you Meejay, Mami and Darius for the follows. The support is appreciated.

They Have Seperate Lives But...

Time moved on and our two heroes continued to forge a strong bond. They had their own lives. But they remained close. They had a strong working relationship. The attraction between them would flare up occasionally because it was largely unresolved. But DC pushed the same old same old with Clark and Lois and the love triangle gets played out...AGAIN. Safe and predictable for Superman comics and writers really. Clark occasionally might show the extent of his feelings for Diana, even while he was moving on with his life.

In Adventures of Superman 435 Clark faces a foe that gets into his subconscious mind and taunts him with his hidden desires. Interestingly we see the women who have been part of romantic Clark's life. Lana Lang, Cat Grant and Lois Lane and they are all wearing Diana's costume.

Here the fantasy changes to Diana herself. Doing away with the other women.It gets to the meat of the matter. He wants Diana...he desires her but it taunts him. Possibly throwing back at him his own insecurities about Diana. She is an Amazon who didn't need him and they were too different. Oh Clark, Diana really intimidated you, huh, by probably being the first woman not to openly go gaga for you? It was safer to have Lois chase after you and you feel more manly, no doubt, having to save her all the time.

WW #61

Well, at least he admitted to himself why he cared.It's a very honest and telling panel from Wonder Woman #61 how much Clark was drawn to Diana.

"Oh Diana,you placed your trust in humanity and this is how you are rewarded. Those eyes...so hopeful...so honest...it's no wonder I nearly fell for them...A Wonder Woman who just wanted to be everyone's friend...and mine..."

This is as close to we will ever get Superman admitting to how deep his feelings were for Diana. The rest of time in comics it will be in what he does. His actions will speak louder than words.

WW#88

And Diana? How was she feeling about him? She valued and supported him during his courting of Lois.She was having her own problems though when he got engaged.

When he died at the hands of Doomsday his death hit her hard. Oddly enough she was not around when he was battling the behemoth. Don't even ask me why Wonder Woman, of all people, was not around to help.You would think if she knew her friend was in trouble as he battled for hours she would come and try to help him. This is Diana, we are talking about, blessed with the eyes of Athena and er, there were things like tv and radio in the  90ties right? Lazy as usual by DC. She came for the funeral though. How nice of them to let her show up and even feel guilty and shed a tear. When he came back from the dead his relationship with Lois was up and down...Oh, who am I fooling? It was said to be pretty crappy. Lois was written as hardly deserving of Clark and he was a masochist to put up with her bitchiness. He was inflicted with a mullet too. DC only rushed and got them back together to tie in with with campy Lois and Clark TV show, (cancelled after 4 seasons) which plunged in ratings after they got hitched. Superman comics would eventually pay a heavy price sales wise due to this creative mistake mid canon. His comics have dropped badly in sales for the past decade.

WW #112

Clark was even anxious about letting Diana know he broke up with Lois. One wonders why he felt he couldn't face her. Guilt? Or the fear of the unresolved feelings he had and that he might be tempted to act upon them? "She and I were never the item the popular press wanted to make us. But that was not entirely for my lack of trying." Clark, you sabotaged it by running off after one "date."

Superman #118

In any case, Clark was lucky he had someone like Diana.She encouraged him not to give up on Lois because she knew he loved her. She wanted him to be happy. Even after the Lois/Clark marriage things between our two heroes remained very complex and intriguing.

Superman and Wonder Woman Themed Greeting Cards

These cute cards from 1978 once again show that Superman and Wonder Woman have always had chemistry and implied romance.And let us note no other heroes or characters get together in merchandizing as frequently as Superman and Wonder Woman. Not even Lois or Steve are used because visually and psychologically they do not have the impact nor do they fulfill the archetype of the ideal male and female couple. And that goes for you too,Batman. You will never mesh with Wonder Woman unless they change her or you.But then you have your own perfect partner, Catwoman. So,DC, if you are wise, you would capitalize on this.