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There’s also a funny moment in the first issue when Diana escapes from the cult, shredding her Emma Peel-inspired whites so that she can don the Red, Gold & Blue. I admit I laughed a little because if ever there was a Wonder Woman comic in her early days in which she wasn’t tied up half-naked, it was a rarity indeed. And yet, for all the nostalgia of that, it did feel just a little awkward and exploitive. Nothing to lose sleep over, but I can see where there might be a wee bit of just criticism there. Otherwise we’ve got a Wonder Woman who’s all business and Lopresti in particular shows her to her best strengths.
Chiang had every chance to go cheesecake with this scene, and he didn’t. Instead, he chose to focus on telling a story. The scene is four pages long, and there’s nothing as absurd as the restrained heroines in Benes’s spread; the nudity is done in a way that never adds a sleazy layer of exploitation slime to the proceedings, because it isn’t the focus. The panels lose some of their impact when viewed individually, but together, they paint a scene that’s full of both tension and a wry sense of humor. Diana is naked, but that isn’t the point. It’s simply a building block for a scene, one brush stroke in the picture that is Wonder Woman #1.
Wonder Woman has some nudity, including when Steve steps out of a bath naked in front of Diana. The audience doesn’t see any nudity, because Steve covers himself with his hands. But Diana spends a moment looking at Steve’s naked body with curiosity because she has never seen a man before.
