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“The Amazons, over many thousands of years of living eternally, have developed some very strange and ritualized ideas about sex,” the writer, known for his fascination with ritualism in all its forms, admits. “This is what happens when you have a utopian community of women,” dismissing the recent direction taken by Brian Azzarello in the New 52 Wonder Woman series in which the Amazons historically raped seafarers to conceive children. “Other things happen. Three thousand years [after Hercules’ death], you’ve got maybe a couple of thousand women. Two hundred and fifty years later, they’ve all kissed one another. A thousand years later, what’s going on? Two thousand years later, what the hell is going on? And then we take up the story a thousand years after that…I thought we owed the world something new.”

He hopes that the strong mother/daughter relationship in the book will make it a book that mothers and daughters can share with one another. Growing up carefully watching the female interaction in his family, he was able to draw on his own upbringing while writing the characters. “The primary dynamic of the story”, Morrison says, “is that Wonder Woman has a mother” who she can received advice from and share visits with at her leisure, which is something Superman and Batman cannot do.

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