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Post by hondobrode on Jul 13, 2014 20:07:44 GMT -5
I'm sure there are some Wonder Woman fans here. I'm not hardcore, but I like the character well enough, especially with certain approaches.
To me, I think Greg Rucka's take was near perfect, like I mentioned in my posting of best comics from 2000 to the present. He presents her as a humanist ambassador of peace who's willing to take arms if necessary.
What version do I like, if any, and why or why not ?
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 13, 2014 20:23:03 GMT -5
The I-Ching era, New Look Wonder Woman is my favorite. I also liked the Dan Mishkin era right before Crisis.
I haven't read a lot of post-Crisis Wonder Woman stuff. What I have read has either been good but not my style (Perez) or terrible (issue #100, wow. Just wow). I wouldn't mind reading more post-Crisis stuff, but not if I have to pay for any of it. And the less said about the rest of pre-Crisis Wonder Woman, the better, I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 21:23:27 GMT -5
I'll second the mod Diana Prince era. Without her powers, Diana seemed more accessible to me. And I liked the mixture of stories, ranging from street-level to James Bond-ish to out&out sword and sorcery. Plus, she looked hotter in a jumpsuit than she ever did in a star-spangled swimsuit.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 21:28:55 GMT -5
My favorite versions/interpretations of Wonder Woman were from other media, not comics. Wonder Woman in the Timmverse of DC animation (specifically the JL/JLU episodes) and the Linda Carter Wonder Woman of the tv series are my all time favorite versions of the characters. I didn't start reading Wonder Woman in comics outside of JLA appearances until Perez's post-Crisis revamp, which I liked quite a bit, but in hindsight I recognize a lot of the run's flaws. For pre-Crisis WW, I quite enjoyed the Twelve Labors trade when I read it as well, and I have the first Showcase volume I have sampled some from, but for sheer enjoyment nothing beats the Trina Robbins/Kurt Busiek Legend of Wonder Woman mini-series for me in comics form.
-M
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2014 22:52:31 GMT -5
I can hardly tell you how much I love Marston/Peter Wonder Woman from the 1940s. The more I read, the more I like Diana's original stories. My library has Wonder Woman Archives, Vol. 1, and I read it a few months ago, and those stories are so much better when you read them in order and see how quickly the elements of the earliest years developed.
Etta Candy and the Holliday Girls are hysterical! And then there's Baroness Paula von Gunther! So evil! So slimy!
And one of my favorite Golden Age stories of all time is the first appearance of the Cheetah, from Wonder Woman #6, which I saw in an over-sized reprint in the 1970s.
The Mod Era is pretty awesome too, mostly for the art. (My library has Volume 1 and Volume 4 of the Mod Era stories, and of course I've read those. Would really like to read the rest of them eventually.)
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2014 22:55:38 GMT -5
but for sheer enjoyment nothing beats the Trina Robbins/Kurt Busiek Legend of Wonder Woman mini-series for me in comics form. -M I had been buying comics for YEARS when this came out, but it was only the second or third time I'd bought a Wonder Woman comic. It's great! I didn't know until later how well it captured the early years of the series (except for the dearth of cross-dressing villains).
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Post by Jesse on Jul 14, 2014 13:45:31 GMT -5
The only series I've read is the Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang run which I've mostly enjoyed. I'm pretty disappointed that David Finch will be taking over art duties.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 14, 2014 13:54:46 GMT -5
I read very little Wonder Woman, so I don't know what I'd exactly expect from a "good" rendition of her. The one that actually got me to buy several consecutive issues was the George Perez reboot.
My favourite Wonder Woman scene is however from a Superman annual, "For the man who has everything", written by Alan Moore.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:11:30 GMT -5
The only series I've read is the Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang run which I've mostly enjoyed. I'm pretty disappointed that David Finch will be taking over art duties. I've got the first, I guess, 7 or 8 issues. They're ... decent. Chiang has done much, much stronger work. He's normally one of my very favorite artists working today, but I don't know if he's too extended or decided to temper his approach for other reasons or what. (Seems like he might touch on this in the recent Modern Masters volume devoted to him, but I don't have my copy handy to check right now.)
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Post by speakerdad on Jul 14, 2014 14:47:41 GMT -5
The Azzarello / Chiang run is one of my few new comics I read, not jazzed about the upcoming creative team though. As far classic WW comics, I really like the post mod Diana area. Funky 70's stories and great covers. Attachment Deleted
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 14, 2014 14:52:15 GMT -5
The Diana Prince era by Mike Sekowsky was my favorite WW version.I also enjoy those early 40s HG Peters stories but could only read them in small doses.There's vast swaths of Wonder Woman comics that doctors believe destroy brain cells
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:55:04 GMT -5
I have and read the first Azzarello Chiang trade, and read the second arc as it came out. I've mentioned before I am not a huge fan or Azzarello, but I think these are decent comics, just not good Wonder Woman. For me, it misses many of the core elements that I think of when I think of Wonder Woman, keeping the trappings but jettisoning the core of what made the character special and an enduring icon. Others may think definitely, that's cool. They are well crafted comic stories, but for me, they would be better with a different protagonist in the lead. I stopped reading when Orion was introduced as I didn't feel Azzarello really handled the Kirby Fourth World mythos stuff well at all, which was about the time I was shedding all the new52 stuff from my pull list anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 15:01:11 GMT -5
Those first few Azzarello-Chiang WWs are almost the only New 52 issues I've read, period, except for a similar stretch at the beginning of Birds of Prey. (I've since acquired several more of the latter & will be resuming reading at some point.) Well, & the various now-defunct Legion titles, but that's the completist in me. And also Dial H (of which I've read only #1 so far, back when it was new), though it's hard for me to think of that as New 52 because it doesn't involve completely revamping an existing, long-established character.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 14, 2014 15:04:14 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 14, 2014 15:31:55 GMT -5
The Azzarello / Chiang run is one of my few new comics I read, not jazzed about the upcoming creative team though. As far classic WW comics, I really like the post mod Diana area. Funky 70's stories and great covers. Does... not.. compute. Head exploding... For me, if not the worst Wonder woman era, certainly the most inexplicable. One thing about those stories from #207-211 though - they may have come out in the 70's, but they were just redrawn versions of earlier Wonder Woman stories Kanigher originally wrote and published back in the late 40's. The Nubia story in #204-206 is decent, however.
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