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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 15:52:13 GMT -5
The best Wonder Woman is definitely the Justice League animated series. I like her attraction to Batman, which seems more fitting to me than always trying to force her and Superman together.
As for comics, George Perez's run is the one I've enjoyed most
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 15:58:03 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 14, 2014 16:34:44 GMT -5
There are very few characters I've been less interested in over the years than Wonder Woman. During most of my early reading her book was pretty universally horrible. I did buy it when the Huntress back-up was in it for Huntress by Levitz and Staton. I know I picked the first half dozen or so Perez issues out of cheap boxes over the years.
But really it's a matter of just not being interested. I guess if I were to come across a good run I might read it...but eh.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 14, 2014 16:40:58 GMT -5
I watched that when it first aired on TV and thought it was pretty interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 18:08:10 GMT -5
I'm waiting to see what she looks like in Batman vs Superman....this looks good! Artwise, I wish Greg Horn did some more work..,could nitpick most of the classic Wonder Woman artwork to death, although she did look good in the Treasury with Superman.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 14, 2014 18:50:17 GMT -5
The Lynda Carter tv show is still my favorite Wonder Woman anything. I can't really say I have a favorite era in the comics. I like some of the Silver Age, some of the 1970s and some of the Perez era, but nothing over a long stretch of time. Not really a fan of the current Azzarello book, but my least favorite era without a doubt is the Mod/ New Look/ Diana Prince era.
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 14, 2014 20:15:58 GMT -5
I love Wonder Woman, particularly the very early stuff and later, the Phil Jimenez run. She's the best thing in a few of the DCAU movies, too. Warren Ellis has done some wonderful WW and WW riffs over the years. He and Carla Speed McNeil didn't do a Wonder Woman comic, but it almost, tentatively, nearly happened, and that's enough to fuel fantasies of how glorious it could've been, for me.
I think Azz is very talented, but very talented in directions I either don't care about or outright get on my damn nerves ("Hey, let's make a Carib former slave who pirates the hell out of his former Spanish slavers into a Spaniard! A comedy Spaniard! Woo! And, Ebony should be a girl, black girls are sassy! Black Canary wears a blonde wig and works in her moms flower shop? What? Is she ethnic? Does she want to be a blonde white girl?"). Can't do it. Can't groove. And, the dumb "sun of a king" line and "where do rape babies come from?" early in the run proved it to me.
Wonderella's been a better Wonder Woman comic than Wonder Woman for too long.
I am looking forward to Sensation, though, which has a killer line up.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 14, 2014 20:26:08 GMT -5
Also looking forward to Sensation.
Have quite enjoyed Azz & Chiang's run and am very skeptical of the upcoming team.
Rucka's still my favorite, but I love the raw power of the Golden Age stories of Marston & Peter.
The middle panel would be a good example for young female readers, though adult readers could read it differently, but I always thought Wonder Woman showed that girls could be strong, independent, but still feminine and caring.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 14, 2014 20:37:19 GMT -5
Personally, the Azz/Chaing WW is the first time I've really cared to read the book. I'll admit that there's problems, but for me at laeast, this is the first time that WW felt like it was of mythology rather than a superhero book with some Greek mythology tacked on. I've read most of Perez' run, mostly to see a creator at his peak, some Messner-Loebs, some Dan Mishkin, some Phil Jimenez, Trini Robbins and Kurt Busiek, Priest, but mostly because I liked the creators rather than the book itself. With Azz/Chiang/Sudzuka, I really look forward to WW each month.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 14, 2014 20:54:07 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan, actually, and I've read a lot - But the Golden Age comics are the only ones I'd actually defend. I really think that Wondy was tied to Marston's personal (kind of crazy)) ideology paired with his cock-eyed sense of fun and that when removed from that we get...
Well, the last couple dozen years of comics. It just seems like writers go out of their way to make her unfun, like an overly idealized version of Your Mom, telling you to eat your brussel sprouts. I liked Greg Rucka's run, but even there he was writing interesting stuff around a boring personality vacuum of a main character.
And no Goddamn giant space kangaroos. Really, what's the point?
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 14, 2014 22:21:38 GMT -5
What was up with all the kangaroos ? I'm obviously missing something there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 22:50:40 GMT -5
This just needs no explanation man! -M
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Post by comicscube on Jul 14, 2014 22:52:08 GMT -5
Perez's run has been my favorite, but even for a Perez fan like me, I thought something was missing. I can't quite place it though.
I like Wonder Woman. As a property and a potential for stories, I love Wonder Woman. But I can't really say I've loved any story she's anchored.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 15, 2014 10:34:32 GMT -5
There are several periods of Wonder Woman I enjoy that have already been mentioned: the original Marston/Peters incarnation, Sekowsky's new look, the first year or two of Perez's run. I also like the wacky-as-hell "Golden Age Revival" era from WW #159-171, which features such lame-ass baddies as Mouse Man, Crimson Centipede and the inimitable Egg Fu (though everything else Kanigher ever did with Wondy thoroughly sux), and pretty much the entire last half-decade of her original title (#270-329), which didn't do anything innovative but told entertaining (mostly), well-drawn (mostly) stories of its central character. I haven't read any newer Wonder Woman runs since before Perez left the title and I'm not even remotely interested in doing so.
Oh, and kangas? Kangas rule!!!
Cei-U! I summon the invisible robot plane!
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 15, 2014 10:49:41 GMT -5
Watched the 2009 movie again tonight (between Ghostbusters and Streets of Fire) and it's just so amazingly good. Truly solid flick and the action is very very boss. The incredibly solid cast helps, too, and sweet character designs, but it makes me wish we'd see a comic that reflected its sensibilities and intensity, and that's probably not in the cards.
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