The recent cancellation of Wonder Girl, the Wonder Woman Family title starring Yara Flor, the first Wonder Girl of indigenous Amazonian descent, was disappointing. Although Flor's demotion from Wonder Woman in the Future State timeline was inevitable, given the large number of Amazons with a prior claim, a series featuring an Amazonian Amazon was an opportunity to expand the corpus of mythologies available to the Wonder Woman franchise beyond the Tetrarchy of Greek, Norse, Celtic, and Egyptian. Unfortunately, the financial reward for even the headlining Amazon has often been tenuous. If American comics companies will not support stories of Amazons of the Amazon, perhaps there is an opportunity for some Brazilian company to do so.
It is satisfying to see that at least the cancellation happened at the end of story arc, but it exposes a problem with the big two in general: the money made from events prevents characters from having isolated adventures which build up their voice.
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