The Wonder Wing
WONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I’ll be taking a look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. This is the second in a series of posts on Greg Rucka’s much-lauded stint writing Wonder Woman. The first, about the graphic novel The Hiketeia, is here. My write-up of the current run 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.
