Originally Posted by
SiegePerilous02
I feel like Orlando is a writer who has a great love of the character and her world and could do really well (and has flashes of greatness and great individual issues), but his hands are tied by what he was handed when he arrived. He might have been better off with his own version of Wonder Woman he could build from scratch, with stronger art attached to it. Serialized building off of other runs is a real weakness for this property. This volume just ran out of gas after Robinson and Wilson and building off of those is not an enviable task. The guys who start a new volume (Perez, Azzarello and Rucka) tend to have the best luck out of all of them, they have way more freedom and everything is fresh.
It's kind of like Gail Simone. A really solid first year on the title that turned mediocre, but she got saddled with Amazons Attack and the Diana Prince stuff and had at least two notable instances of editorial interference (Circe couldn't have been behind the Amazons' behavior, and Genocide couldn't be Knockout) with possible others. In an ideal world, Rucka would have been able to finish his first run and Simone would have been given the book immediately after to probably much better results. Same here, I wish Orlando or even a returning Simone had been given the book right after Rucka left with better artists. Or like Phil Jimenez, whose run was originally a self contained 12 part series that was re-worked to fit into main continuity. And it turned out very good, but I imagine it would have been better being its own thing.