"It's a big wild swing of a book," says writer Kelly Thompson as Absolute Wonder Woman gives the amazing Amazon a new home, a new outfit, and new lassos

Hayden Sherman's main cover art for Absolute Wonder Woman #1.

DC's freshly minted Absolute Universe begins its roll-out in October with the first issues of both Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman hitting comic stores. We chatted with Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta about the former a couple of weeks back, and now it's the turn of writer Kelly Thompson and artist Hayden Sherman to talk us through the latter, and the start of a five-issue arc that will introduce a whole new take on the amazing Amazon.

This version of Wonder Woman has a rather different backstory to the one we're all familiar with. Taken as a baby and raised not on Themyscira, but in Hell, the Absolute universe Diana has grown up surrounded by monsters. When gigantic kaiju-style creatures known as Harbingers attack Gateway City, however, Wonder Woman must leave home behind and make her (very public) introduction to the Absolute universe.