DC Comics’ J. Michael Straczynski and Jim Lee have given Wonder Woman the gift of pants. Instead of wearing a flag turned glorified bathing suit, the crime fighting super hero will now wear a pair of smart trousers and a jacket.

Via Washington Post:

“In her more modern costume, Wonder Woman (a.k.a. Diana Prince, a.k.a. Lynda Carter) looks like a glamorous athlete instead of an unusually muscular Miss America who happens to fight crime. The sleek lines of the new wonder pants evoke sci-fi warrior agility, while the cropped jacket — with its studded epaulettes — adds rock star, Balmain flash.”

I always knew the real power was in my pants. The explanation goes on to reveal that another benefit of the change is gender equality.

“Now that she’s been given a pair of pants — that Western symbol of formalized male authority — it’s tempting to declare this makeover an advance in gender equity. But not so fast. In superhero-land, where everything is exaggerated, the boys are sketched with a nod to extreme masculinity. Batman’s suit, for example, gives the slender Bruce Wayne perfectly etched pecs. It was only fair that Wonder Woman’s leg-revealing briefs gave mousy Miss Prince a goddess’s sexy, lithe figure.”

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