From Jodi Picoults Wonder Woman to Ian Rankins Hellblazer: what draws bestselling novelists to comic books?
Meet Diana Prince, a woman with a chequered past. Believing it was the only way to save a friend, she once killed a man, only to find the government pursuing her for murder. Finally exonerated, she joined the Justice Department, hoping to put her pacifism and humanity to good use. But her late mother’s friends want to do her in, her employers mean her no good, a terrorist war looms – and there’s the small matter of an attractive new partner to contend with as well. So far, so blurb; and just the sort of thing you might expect from Jodi Picoult, the American author of a string of bestseller based with canny foresight around the most troublesome issues and headlines of the day. But if Diana Prince’s story seems to lack the hard focus of Picoult’s other works – such as Perfect Match, about child abuse in the Catholic Church, or Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting – there’s a good reason. Diana has other problems too. She’s thousands of years old, comes from a race of all-female immo
