There are scenes in the 2009 graphic novel Wolverine: Old Man Logan that have even the most hardened comic book fan crying into its pages. Red Skull wearing the gruesome armour of a long since demised Captain America; the defeated bodies of most of the X-Men; Ant-Man in Giant-Man mode sprawled out dead against an icy hellscape. It is an alternate version of comic-book reality in which there is a major superhero cull, and Marvel’s supervillains finally take eternal control of the Earth.
Something similar took place recently at Warner Bros-owned DC. Ever since head honcho James Gunn was handed the keys to the kingdom, there has been a sense that the old crew introduced by Zack Snyder – Henry Cavill’s Superman, Ben Affleck’s Batman (and perhaps Michael Keaton’s only recently returned version, too) – were being put out to pasture. And yet, news this week suggests the slate is not being completely wiped clean, for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman is reportedly coming back for a fresh outing, just as we were all fearing we might never see her again.
