Problems with the bullets and bracelets as a protective measure of innocents include A.) That sure doesn't look like anything you'd want to be anywhere near as it's happening. Those things are flying every which way. B.) All the other heroes are now bastards for not undertaking similar measures to protect the citizenry. Superman's a dick. C.) She's not been shown to be every bit as bulletproof as Superman previously, so we're either going to have to show that on a routine basis going forward or Yaay, reboot her one! more! time! and establish that from the "beginning." 

And again, why does she have to be every bit as powerful as Superman to be his "equal" as a crime-fighter? Why is she something less than he is because her power set is different? Isn't she somehow more bad-ass for being more at risk and charging ahead anyway? Or does everything boil down to the "stats" on the backs of their Magic: the Gathering cards? Are women everywhere being deprived of the heroine they deserve by not having a bulletproof Wonder Woman who can spit in the eye of that patriarchal pain-in-the-ass Superdoof and he can't say "boo" about it? Must it all be about "Separate But Equal?" Is she a drinking fountain in 1963 Alabama? We can't just let her be amazing on her terms? She has to be amazing on his as well? 

Haven't there already been a couple of stories out there written to prove she can kick the ass of every JLA member with a member? Just as there have been some proving Batman can kick everybody's ass as well? She already possesses considerable advantages over Superman having magical weaponry, a lifetime of combat training, an army of Amazons, and a pantheon of Gods to back her up. She has to have everything he has and everything she has as well? Are they going through a bad divorce?

Fandom wept bitter tears for decades that women everywhere were being deprived of their birthright by having a Wonder Woman who couldn't fly. So they got that and the Invisible Jet, a fairly cool component of the legend in and of itself, was sent to go rust on the Isle of Misfit Aircraft. I'm pretty sure the bulletproof thing is already tacitly understood as an ability she has but no one talks about. She's certainly portrayed as being on par with Superman in their recent title together. We just need to start showing her walking through gunfire and yawning. Because that's what would have made that scene in her film so much better, right? If she'd been nonchalant and bored rather than brave and friggin' amazing? 

We're going to have to start demanding she get heat vision next, right? Because why should he have heat vision and she not have heat vision? How is that fair? Why do men not want women to have heat vision?? Huh?? Are they afraid of a Wonder Woman with heat vision? Well, they should be! They Should Be!! Heat Vision Now! Heat Vision Now!! Heat Vision Now!!

Drew S. - Mr. Byrne established that Superman has a skin tight field that functions to keep him free of debris, etc. He also established, independently of that, that Superman has an ability that is more than just super strength that lets him lift a plane, as you noted, and applies to him when he's lifting something when he flies, for example. (Please note that it's been some time since I read those stories... I believe it's accurate, but don't take it as absolutely perfectly 100% correct.)

Brian H. - Wonder Woman doesn't need heat vision. See, she has Superman use his heat vision, and just reflects it off her bracelets...

They turned Angel into Archangel (after briefly being Death). Around the same time Beast got touched by Pestilence and had a reaction that caused him to lose his intelligence then got infected again by some other villain with a mutating touch, and ended up furry, intelligent and stronger than ever. And Bobby got his extra powers and his belt in the same period. Only Cyclops was deemed already powerful enough.

I don't think extra power levels = more compelling character, but that seemed to be the thinking.

 

QUOTE: I remember being quite excited when Spider-Man showed up in a Transformers comic.  Yet I do recall some having a problem with it. "Why hasn't anyone mentioned giant robots before?" or "Giant robots from Cybertron don't really work in the Marvel Universe."

That issue of Transformers was one of the first comics I bought at age 12. My problem (ultimately) was how Spider-Man's appearance, the Savage Land setting, and Circuit Breaker's SECRET WARS II cameo, all teased an epic confrontation with the greater Marvel universe, along the lines of what we saw in the last issues of Moench and Trimpe's GODZILLA comic. Such a missed opportunity.

QUOTE: * Except the Hulk, who had been mentioned in FF5 -- AS A COMICBOOK CHARACTER!!

Backup stories about the Bullpen were one of those running gags I didn't particularly love when it ran into me, but seeing how JB teed off the idea with the unfortunate souls working for Dollar Comics in NEXT MEN makes me wonder about the potential for a more extended DAMAGE CONTROL/GOTHAM CENTRAL-style book based on the travails of working for Marvel Comics in the Marvel Universe .

A woman become dependent upon a man for her heat vision? I don't THINK so... Women are strong, powerful beings in their own right and do not need to rely upon MEN for anything, especially their heat vision!! Remember, a woman with heat vision needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle to escape a woman with heat vision...! Or something like that.

I actually did come up with a way for Wonder Woman to have heat vision, by the way. If she were to grasp her magic lasso, which is lit with the fires of Hestia's hearth, remember, she could channel the magical flames through her body and direct them through her eyes or hands, setting whatever she chose ablaze with flames that could not only destroy but also strip away any disguise or deception, burning the object or person down to their most basic, truthful core. A wave of Wonder Woman's hand, a flash of her golden, fiery eyes, and the thin, deceitful veneers masking Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne from the prying eyes of the world, would burn away, revealing the super-heroes underneath! 

She could thusly expose robotic impostors, shape-shifting aliens, and the like with a casual glance, making her heat vision even cooler than Superman's more basic, garden-variety type. Ha! Take that, you patriarchal pretenders! In your face, losers!!

E.R.A. in the J.L.A! Heat vision now! Heat vision now!!

Wonder Woman got shot in a recent issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE. I don't know if it was a "special" bullet or not -- I haven't read the issue yet -- but you can be sure that it wouldn't have affected Superman. 

I really don't like that. Diana should be nearly Superman's equal. For that matter, I don't like it that she's always brandishing a sword and shield these days. She never needed those before. 

Diana should NEVER appear weak compared to Superman. Ever. It is, in fact, sexist, even if unintentionally.

JB understood this during his WONDER WOMAN run, but subsequent writers, or most of them (Gail Simone definitely an exception, and Phil Jimenez too), don't get it.