DC Comics have announced Joëlle Jones’s “Wonder Girl” series, starring the newly introduced ‘Future State’ Wonder Woman Yara Flor, will begin in May. The series will reveal Yara’s origin story, which begins with her being “raised in the far-off land of Boise, Idaho.”
Per the synopsis, “Yara has always felt something has been missing from her life — and now she is headed to Brazil to find it. Little does she know her arrival will set off a series of events that will change the world of Wonder Woman forever.”
In an interview with Polygon, Jones stated that while she always loved Wonder Woman, there was a gap between her and the character: “she was this beautiful goddess that I looked up to and wanted to be like, and I wanted to take those emotions of admiration and put them in a character. It would be a woman who had the same powers, but had foibles as a human.” She said Yara allows a reader to “watch the struggles of somebody wanting to be just like Wonder Woman, but who staggered along the way,” and described the character as someone “excited to step into a hero role — almost too excited, Labrador Retriever excited, to be there.”
The book marks the first ongoing “Wonder Girl” title: although the moniker has been held by longtime Wonder Woman/Teen Titans characters like Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark, prior to this, there had only previously been a six-issue miniseries (starring Cassie) by J. Torres and Sanford Greene in 2008.
A teaser for the series will be released in DC’s “Infinite Frontier” #0 on March 2, before “Wonder Girl” #1 will be made available on May 18, 2021. For more from Jones on the real backstory of Yara in ‘Future State,’ and concept art, head to Polygon.
