>>150154173
>which gives the false impression that she's not popular
She isn't.
Popularity, ACTUAL popularity, isn't determined by how many neckbeards post pics of her or of her issues on the internet. Sales of products related to the character are the only true metric of popularity when it comes to superheroes.
And when it comes to Wonder Woman's comics, she can't be defined "popular".
She doesn't do bad in sales generally (for cape comics), she's not Miss/Captain Marvel levels of terrible when it comes to walking the walk, but she's nowhere NEAR the heroes who one might rightfully define "popular".
Not in comics or movies.
The peak of her actual popularity was probably with her TV series, 50 years ago.
She's in the "Trinity" because DC needed female quota.
The only metric by which you can define her as "popular" would be by manipulating the context by which popularity is defined, like here:
>>150162921
>best selling woman-led solo book
Which is peddling bullshit to make a product seem more than what it is.
Cape comics, despite Marvel and DC best attempts, are a white-males dominated medium among the readers.
A "woman-led" book is a fucking irrelevant metric, it's the same bullshit that people use to push shit characters like Harley Quinn.
Another trick is using pre-orders as substitues for sales, hence the "Wondy is doing better than Spidey!" meme bullshit.
Another is talking about "quality", which is subjective and absolutely doesn't directly correlates to popularity.
Don't get me wrong, Wonder Woman is famous. But she isn't popular.
As of why, I don't want to extend this WoT, but if Grant fucking Morrison (or anyone else) can't make a good, POPULAR self-contained story with her, then a good guess would be that it's not the author, it's the character.
