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Tom King Bringing Back Hard Candy To Wonder Woman Continuity
Tom King reintroduces Etta Candy’s ranch-owning family history in upcoming Wonder Woman issues
Hard Candy, Etta’s father from the 1940s comics, will be referenced for the first time in decades
Speculation grows about the possible return of Hard Candy and Sugar Candy to Wonder Woman lore
Modern Wonder Woman arcs by Tom King blend golden age continuity with new character developments

n the 1940s, the Wonder Woman comic introduced the character to a sidekick, Etta Candy. And Etta, for a time, had a fleshed-out family, one that owned a cattle ranch. Etta Candy's father, created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter for Sensation Comics in 1943, was given the name Hard Candy.

The character appeared several times over the forties, but didn't make the move into the Silver Age, even as those stories were moved over to Earth-2. And by the time of the Crisis of Infinite Earths, it was all wiped away anyway. When Etta Candy returned, she had been modernised, slimmed down, and had changed her race. And there was no mention of any family, or any ranch, even when the old continuities were returned by DC Rebirth.

Bleeding Cool understands that in upcoming issues of Wonder Woman by Tom King and Daniel Sampere, while Hard Candy won't be returning, he will be mentioned, as well as Etta Candy's family ranch and Wonder Woman's history with it all…

Is this a precursor to the return of Hard Candy, and maybe her mother Sugar Candy, as well as the whole Candy Ranch to a full-blown reappearance? And will he be transformed as much as Etta Candy was?
Anonymous No.151203373 [Report]
truly delivering what the fans want
Anonymous No.151203406 [Report] >>151203549
How bad has been his room so far? The fact that nobody is talking about it, made feel like it would be totally irrelevant the moment he left the book.
Anonymous No.151203467 [Report]
>>151202879 (OP)
Don't care, stop drawing her like a Waller 2.0 first.
Anonymous No.151203549 [Report]
>>151203406
so bad even his fanboys abandoned it
Anonymous No.151203709 [Report] >>151209596
>>151202879 (OP)
Remember...King is being STRONGLY considered to replace Jim Lee as DC publisher....God help us.
Anonymous No.151203759 [Report]
>>151202879 (OP)
A black rancher that probably will be based off of the Kevin Costner character from Yellowstone. What am I saying? He's going yo be White and his wife will be White and Etta will be adopted
Anonymous No.151204220 [Report] >>151211824
>>151202879 (OP)
This IS what I wanted.
Anonymous No.151204364 [Report]
I would give up my next two paychecks to have them drop this "black Etta" dogshit. It has never worked.
Anonymous No.151205631 [Report] >>151205820
This is funny, because while I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER in Tom King, this is precisely the sort of "see? I respect WW and know her history" thing he needed to do BEFORE deciding he was an important and beloved enough WW writer to give her a kid. The man does everything backwards, I swear.
Anonymous No.151205820 [Report]
>>151205631
Same I have no faith in him either at any rate I have a sinking feeling bad this.
Anonymous No.151207279 [Report]
>>151202879 (OP)
Tom King and Wonder Woman are both relentlessly terrible.
Anonymous No.151208976 [Report]
>>151202879 (OP)
>Bleeding Cool understands
Fucking KEK
Anonymous No.151209596 [Report] >>151209694
>>151203709
God help Paramount or Universal buy DC so this motherfucker, his mother and all of WB executives are fired and blacklisted.
Anonymous No.151209694 [Report] >>151209723
>>151209596
When did any of them speak out against Israel?
Anonymous No.151209723 [Report]
>>151209694
Dont you think everyone knows?
Anonymous No.151209925 [Report]
>>151202879 (OP)
After Amazons vs. Not!ICE (because there are Amazons who want to live outside their motherfucking utopia for some reason), I'm half expecting some awful plot where it's brought up that the Candy Ranch is "stolen land".
Anonymous No.151209963 [Report] >>151212694 >>151215685
>>151202879 (OP)
Okay, but will the story be good?
Anonymous No.151211824 [Report]
>>151204220
Happy Christmas, anon!
Anonymous No.151212694 [Report]
>>151209963
No.
Anonymous No.151213580 [Report] >>151214021 >>151215685
>>151202879 (OP)
How will that make people read comics though?
Anonymous No.151214021 [Report]
>>151213580
Comics?
Anonymous No.151214451 [Report] >>151215700
>>151202879 (OP)
Bring back Steve
Anonymous No.151215685 [Report]
>>151209963
Probably not.
So far Tom King's Wonder Woman run has been too dark and grim to be fun, but not well paced or interesting enough for it to be otherwise compelling
>>151213580
He's not trying to save the industry, he's just writing Wonder Woman
Anonymous No.151215700 [Report]
>>151214451
He'll inevitably come back, but it may take quite a while.
Tom King's grander storyline seems to be trying to build up to Wonder Woman's version of old man Logan or The Dark Knight Returns. A more jaded and cynical version of the character dealing with the challenges of a world increasingly not suitable for heroes.

So it would make sense then for Diana to stay (for all practical purposes) a widow until that storyline is done. And that might not be for the next few years.