# Comic fans: what's the deal with John Byrne?

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**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-fans-whats-the-deal-with-john-byrne/160911 "2003-03-12T19:37:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-fans-whats-the-deal-with-john-byrne/160911/41 "2003-03-14T13:24:22Z")

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:: vague recollection of Byrne doing something stupid _with_ the statue bit percolates into pre-coffe brain ::

…um…or were you thinking of something else?

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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-fans-whats-the-deal-with-john-byrne/160911/42 "2003-03-15T04:05:46Z")

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As I remember, Byrne said hyppotalya(sp) created WW out of a statue or something similar.

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-fans-whats-the-deal-with-john-byrne/160911/43 "2003-03-15T05:19:20Z")

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That wasn’t Byrne, that was William Marston (?) Wonder Woman’s creator, back in All Star Comics #8, circa 1940.

Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons wanted a daughter, but, being that there were no men on Paradise Island it was problematic. The Greek Gods told her to sculpt a baby out of clay: she did, and they breathed life into it/her.

You can blame Byrne for _a lot_ of fuck ups with Wonder Woman’s origin, but not that (which is actually a really cool scene). It would be like blaming Byrne for having Krypton explode when he otherwise screwed up Superman. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-fans-whats-the-deal-with-john-byrne/160911/44 "2003-03-15T05:20:36Z")

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Erm…

typo:

“You can blame Byrne for a lot of fuck ups with Wonder Woman, but not her origin”

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