An Indepth Look At Guillem March’s Superman/Wonder Woman #3 Variant

The variant cover to DC comic’s Superman/Wonder Woman has caused quite a stir online and across social media this past week. Even though the issue doesn’t hit stores for another two weeks, viewers of the cover online have brought Guillem March’s 1:25 ratio variant a lot of attention. The two camps that argue this cover is deserving of controversy complain that it is either too sexual or seem to have a problem with how Wonder Woman’s legs are depicted. While the latter certainly seems to be a matter of perspective based upon how the image was cropped by the artist, the sexual undertones truly can’t be denied. The final cover shows Superman floating shirtless above the Earth, with Wonder Woman covering herself with Superman’s cape. Wonder Woman is in fact wearing all her normal clothing, but the insinuation is definitely there that something potentially sexual just happened between the two heroic titans. Now is there a problem with that? I’d argue no considering the title is rated for teens and Warner Bros. depicts far worse on their teenage aimed programing on CW. But some fans feel differently, which led to artist Guillem March stepping up and sharing the full details of the cover on his blog.

On a blog post from earlier today, March not only addresses the sexiness of the cover, which in truth seems much more toned down that it was depicted in conception, but also addresses fans about Wonder Woman’s rather muscular leg. You can few his response to the leg bit at the bottom of his blog post. But in this sharing, March actually gives us a rare look at how a cover is made from initial thumbnails to pencils to inks to final colored product. Therefore, we thought we’d share with you all:

In the initial thumbnails, which allow the artist and editor to choose the best potential piece for the artist to draw as the cover, we see March almost went much sexier. In a few of these Wonder Woman is undoubtedly wearing less than her usual superhero uniform, implying that she likely just had sex with the famed last survivor of Krypton.
When the #3 option was chosen, a few additional thumbnail variations were made to see how best to cover Wonder Woman.

But as the pencils show, artist or editor had this changed so Wonder Woman was fully clothed beneath Superman’s cape.

Once inks are added and the piece is scanned we can really take in the beauty of March’s work, which was already breath taking in pencils, and see just what the image looks like before colors and the addition of the breathtaking orbital background.

Finally, here is the image everyone will see when Superman/Wonder Woman #3 hits stores on December 11th, if they can manage to get a hold of this hot variant.