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    Character » Wonder Woman appears in 8808 issues.

    The Amazon princess, blessed with god-like super abilities, Wonder Woman is one of Earth's most powerful defenders of peace, justice, and equality and a member of the Justice League. She is considered an archetype for many heroines outside of comic book. Her initial origin depicted her as a clay baby brought to life by patron goddess Aphrodite, but in recent years she has been depicted as the daughter of Zeus and Amazon queen Hippolyta.

    The Best Wonder Woman Story

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    #1  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    I'v heard alot of the best batman (killing joke, DKR) and Superman (All-Star, Birthright) but what about Wonder Woman? What do you think are her best story's?

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    #2  Edited By azza04

    Amazons Attack.... >_>

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    #3  Edited By yeopop

    The Hiketeia.

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    #4  Edited By RazzaTazz

    Here are my favourites: 

    George Perez reboot origin and introduction to man's world (vol 2)
    Challenge of the Gods  (vol 2)
    Biker Girl Era when Artemis took over the title of Wonder Woman (though this requires reading pretty much the whole Messner-Loebs run to get a full appreciation)  (vol 2)
    The decision to kill Maxwell Lord and its repercussions (vol 2)
    Rise of the Olympian (vol 3) 
    Odyssey (vol 3)

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    #5  Edited By FadeToBlackBolt

    I don't have a best, but I have two worst; 
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    Land of the Dead

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    #7  Edited By Erik

    I honestly love George Perez's stuff. It made such a small splash on the rest of the DCU but I felt it was a very character driven series under him. 
     
    I also am really fond of Rucka's contribution to the series. Wonder Woman made much more of an impact during his time with the series and still stayed true to the Wonder Woman that Perez molded. The only thing I was confused about was that Diana had suddenly become a vegetarian under his pen. I can only think it had something to do with her political nature rather than Amazonian.

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    #8  Edited By Benuben

     
    Paradise Lost and Paradise Found.  
    And dont EVER read Amazons Attack, or Love and Murder. Those are propably the worst WW stories ever.

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    #9  Edited By Erik
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    #10  Edited By RazzaTazz
    @Erik: ML I found built up his stories over time, to get the full appreciation I had to read the entire run
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    #11  Edited By Erik

    @RazzaTazz:

    It is true that ML had stories that stretched over several issues but his inconsistencies with not only with what came before but even with his own work completely tainted my reading experience. His unnecessary and poorly thought out retcons tells me a story of a man too lazy to read or even have an understanding of what came before. I even go as far as to say he performed character assassination against Hippolyta. Then there are details that are inconsistent from issue to issue such as the Gauntlet(s) of Atlas. There are two things I think came out of his contribution on the title and they are Artemis and the art for a good portion of the issues. Specifically the ones done by Diodato.

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    #12  Edited By RazzaTazz
    @Erik: I guess i can kind of appreciate your viewpoint, but he had some great individual issues in that run.  
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    #13  Edited By Erik

    @RazzaTazz said:

    @Erik: I guess i can kind of appreciate your viewpoint, but he had some great individual issues in that run.

    I might have to read his run by itself to try to see this. When I read through it, I compared it to all that I had read up until that point. As far as I am concerned, it is still the poorest quality of WW issues now that I had completed volume 2 and 3 but perhaps if I read it through separate from the entire Post Crisis WW history, I could gain some appreciation of it.

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    #14  Edited By RazzaTazz
    @Erik: Surprised you thought it was worse than Byrne
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    @Erik: Surprised you thought it was worse than Byrne

    Byrne was slow and it sure did not dazzle me. But I think his fixes to ML's tornado of terrible writing won me over. Byrne is not the best but I sure do not think he is the worst.

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    #16  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @RazzaTazz said:

    Here are my favourites: 

    George Perez reboot origin and introduction to man's world (vol 2)
    Challenge of the Gods  (vol 2)
    Biker Girl Era when Artemis took over the title of Wonder Woman (though this requires reading pretty much the whole Messner-Loebs run to get a full appreciation)  (vol 2)
    The decision to kill Maxwell Lord and its repercussions (vol 2)
    Rise of the Olympian (vol 3) 
    Odyssey (vol 3)

    Would that be in order from best to worst or just any order?
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    #17  Edited By RazzaTazz
    @spiderbat87: Thats just chronological, probably the last two are best
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    Perez, Azzarello and Kelly are her best writers

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    @agent41: Fair enough. I really liked Azz's run but I'm typically a fan of Azz's writing in general so maybe his style just appeals to me.

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    #21  Edited By CSG_CL

    I would actually love to see someone take a stab at modernizing some of the GA Marston stories ... He had such a rich cast of characters with the original Amazons, the Holiday Girls and even the various U.S. Military folks around her all made these stories interesting. Problem is they didn't really have story arcs so they'd need some serious manipulation and then an update to more modern times. I could see a re-written version of "The Redemption of Paul Van Gunther" as an awesome storyline.

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    Azzarello and Simone were my favorites.

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    I don't remember the name of it but it was blind Wonder Woman vs Medusa. That one was cool.

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    I loved Ruka and Simone. They probably not the best but they did a good job of handling her.

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    It is sad that Diana doesn't really have anything on the level of All-Star Superman, Killing Joke or the like; a universally praised story that both critics and fans agree contains the essence of Wonder Woman.

    Best runs however; Rucka and Azzarello with their over-arching stories. Perez may have created the modern version of Wonder Woman, but in hidsight his stories were mostly a collection of self-contained short stories.

    I wonder, if Azzarello's run was to be collected in one big omnibus; wonder if they would title it something? And what? (unlike say NTT's).

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