Richard friend david finch3/28/2024 ![]() ![]() Writer Meredith Finch and artist David Finch. ![]() Who did DC tap to follow the long three-year, 740-page run of Azzarello, Chiang and company.? And, remarkably, he managed to keep Wonder Woman completely divorced from the rest of the DC Universe, to the extent that DC had to create a new team-up title- Superman/Wonder Woman-in which to address her relationship with the rest of the DC Universe, particularly her new boyfriend Superman. Writer Brian Azzarello, artist Cliff Chiang and several different fill-in artists recreated Wonder Woman in several dramatic and controversial ways during that time, pulling focus away from the character and her past to something that, for better or worse, was at least new, a sort of urban fantasy that re-cast Wonder Woman as an adult female Percy Jackson.Īzzarello also pulled off the pretty neat trick of rebooting the character without really rebooting her-most of the changes involved were merely Diana learning things about her origins and the Amazons she didn't know before-so that it wasn't impossible, or even too terribly difficult, to line the run up with the ones that preceded it (continuity-wise, if not tonally). Relaunched with a new #1 and a new direction in September of 2011, Wonder Woman has thus far had only one creative team, a rather rare feat for a DC comic from that period. With a long-awaited movie finally-finally!-in the works, we're only going to be hearing more and more about Wonder Woman in the next few years, so it seems well worth while to see how publisher DC Comics is handling their stewardship of the character. I quite literally set down one prose book about the character and picked up another one, that latter getting what seems to me like an unprecedented amount of mainstream media attention for a book about a comics creator and his creation (Do correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall any books on other creators and characters ending up on, say, The Colbert Report, for example). In addition to this issue, the first by the new creative team of Meredith Finch, David Finch and Richard Friend, Wednesday also saw the release of the excellent Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #4 (discussed here) and the first issue of Superman/Wonder Woman by it's new creative team of Peter Tomasi, Doug Mahnke and Jaime Mendoza (more on that book in another day or two). I think it's well worth noting that this was one of three comics with the name "Wonder Woman" in the title. In the case of Wonder Woman #36, I obviously decided to review it rather than ignore it, not simply because it was terrible, but because the character is so damn.well, important. I never go out of my way to read a comic book that I suspect will be terrible without any mitigating circumstances, and, when I do read one, I then wonder if it's better to just not mention it anywhere at all, under the ignore-it-and-it-will-go-away school of thought, or if I should go out of my way to discuss the book and its negative qualities, so as to not let the only reviews of the book to get written be positive ones. Looking for something to read? Try one of these 100+ recommendations, all chosen by r/DCcomics users.As a comics critic, I never quite know what to do with terrible comic books when I come across them. If you are submitting a link, do not include the spoiler in your submitted link name. If a significant event has taken place within one year of its release, mark it as a spoiler. No memes or other low-effort content (see full rules).Indicate the source when submitting excerpts or artwork. ![]() No spoilers in title, mark all spoilers within 1 year of release.Please adhere to these few rules while interacting within the community.Ĭlick here for a detailed explanation for each of these rules. Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV and More! - February 19, 2024 ![]() Reading Recommendations Welcome to /r/DCcomicsĪ place for fans of DC's comics, movies, fan creations, video games, and anything else related to one of the largest comic book publishers in the world, and home of the World's Greatest Superheroes! ![]()
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