Brian Azzarello: 'Wonder Woman's family will be her Gotham City'

Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang have explained how they are making Wonder Woman "cool" again.

The 100 Bullets writer and his artistic collaborator on Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality are working on the new Wonder Woman for DC Comics' New 52.

"We've gone back to the early days of mythology," Azzarello told Comic Book Resources.

"That's where we are getting our edge. We're not just making Wonder Woman cool. We're making her world cool."

"The characters are really great, but at the same time, over the years, people have built these restrictions about the kind of stories you get when you read Wonder Woman," added Chiang.

"So we're taking it in a different direction from that. And I think that's why people are taking notice."

With the revelation that Wonder Woman is the daughter of Zeus, the creators said that Princess Diana's newly-expanded family would give her a firm setting in a similar way that Batman has Gotham City.

"The other thing is, now, we've given her a family - a big, horrible family - and the story possibilities are endless," said Azzarello.

"The gods act horribly to each other, they act horribly to humans. But at the same time, they're not entirely unsympathetic, either. They are all coming from a place you understand. That's kind of the universal quality of mythology, that it's all about human nature.

"The other thing is, Wonder Woman's never had a Gotham City. Now, her family is going to be her Gotham City."

Wonder Woman #3 will be released on November 16.