World Without a Wonder Woman
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.
Both DC and Marvel have a tendency to bounce from one earth-shattering giant crossover event to another and another, with scarcely a month or two between them, giving any given series hardly any time to develop a story of its own before it’s siderailed by whatever shattering the earth is doing at the moment. A few weeks ago, I wrote about DC’s most recent one,
Future’s End, about some horrible dystopian future not long from now. Well, the giant crossover event before that, Forever Evil, is about a horrible dystopian present. Read more
Settling for Superman
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.
I’ve avoided talking about this as long as I could, but the recent news that DC is launching a new Superman/Wonder Woman series has forced my hand. I’ve been a DC Comics fan since the mid-1970s, which necessitates a certain tolerance for reboots and retcons, but I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m no fan of the current “New 52” relaunch of all DC’s titles, in which only Batman and Green Lantern continued more or less unchanged and everyone else’s history was rewritten.
Prelude to Flashpoint
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments.
DC and Marvel both love their mega-crossovers. Scarcely a month goes by when the entire superhero line of one or both of the Big Two comic book companies isn’t caught up in some universe-shaking event after which nothing will ever be the same again. In the last several years, DC has usually had more than one of these overlapping uber-crises going on at the same time.
Even so, Flashpoint was one that I thought I could safely ignore.
She’s Dressed in Black Again
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I’ll be taking a look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. This is the seventh in a series of posts on Greg Rucka’s much-lauded stint writing Wonder Woman. The first six installments are are here, here, here, here, here and here. My write-up of the most recent era of Wonder Woman is here.
Wonder Down Under
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I’ll be taking a look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. This is the fifth in a series of posts on Greg Rucka’s much-lauded stint writing Wonder Woman. The first four installments are here, here, here, and here. My write-up of the most recent era of Wonder Woman is here.
52 Pickup
As anyone who pays any attention to comic books already knows, this month DC Comics relaunched its entire line of comics, restarting them all from number 1. Well, not all: Some titles were discontinued, and a number of new ones are starting that weren’t there before. But in one month, DC is restarting from scratch with 52 new series. Even Detective Comics–which was the longest-running comic published in the United States, introduced Batman and gave the company its name–ended at issue #881 and now starts over. Action Comics, which introduced Superman in its #1 in 1938, similarly goes from issue #904 to square one. So on that level alone, it feels like the end of an era.
