Brian Azzarello's just taking too damn long to tell this story. Period...
This month will be the first, since deciding to drop the comic in January, that I am not moved to give in and sneak a peek on Comixology. Azzarello has taken so long to tell the story and left major characters, like Lennox and Cassandra, so undeveloped, that I honestly don't care how he ends his layer-cake arc. I haven't felt this cheated, jerked around and betrayed by a writer, ..since Gail Simone gave Achilles a skinny realtor boyfriend and moved him into a Beverly Hills mansion. I barely care if Azzarello's Wonder Woman lives or dies.
Furthermore, it doesn't help that Cliff Chiang can't illustrate an action comic. Wonder Woman's first scrap with Orion, after months building up buzz about Orion's entry into the story, ..wrapped on one page. One page, and this clash between two comic book legends was OVER! When he could show Cassandra leaping down from a steel platform to another, he draws her taking an elevator. He takes half a page to show Zola looking out a window, while most of his action sequences appear short, rushed and boring.
I still think Azzarello is a genius and love that he's given Wonder Woman a GREAT supporting cast, new VILLAINS and a cool, new Wonderverse to operate in. At its best, his Wonder Woman reads like a female Doc Savage or Modesty Blaise in girl-hero costume. However, his aversion to developing the backgrounds of major characters, like Cassandra and Lennox (no last names given), coupled with his excruciatingly slow-paced, wasteful storytelling, with nearly entire issues spent standing around a bar or an apartment, ..TALKING, ..make it nearly impossible to maintain interest in his stories.
Just don't care, anymore. Eagerly looking forward to Brian Azzarello's and Cliff Chiang's departure from Wonder Woman and picking up their run in trade paperback.