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Nothing is more aggravating that he got relegated to that in between the more hyped writers (Robinson and Wilson) who weren't worth the hype at all.
In an ideal world, Rucka would have been on longer, and Orlando would have been given the keys to the kingdom when he left. If we went from Rucka>Orlando>King, we'd have the best consecutive stretches since Jimenez>Rucka.
I agree with everything that the Original poster said
Steve Orlando and Tom King are fans, maybe Tom will ask Steve to write something in the future, since Tom recognizes Steve's attention to the Wonder Woman universe
I think the problem with Orlando is that, despite getting some critical acclaim none of his stuff ended up as a sales hit. On paper Tamaki, Robinson and Wilson are bigger names and thats probably why they got more focus.
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Majority would agree with you. Only contention you’ll find here is whether Azz’s run is worth reading (I enjoyed it even if I fully accept and understand the criticisms of it, and I think Rucka’s Rebirth run is more enjoyable having read Azz’s run so you understand what it’s reacting against). Every so often in spite of DC’s incompetence, one of the non-Bat characters finally hits a hot streak. For Flash it was the CW show, for WW and Aquaman it was their movies, for Young Justice it was their cartoon, etc. and what happens every time is DC completely wastes the chance to level the character up in the comics. Wonder Woman manages to get DC’s first true success in theaters? Let’s dump Robinson on her book to tie up Johns plot threads he can’t be bothered with.
DC simply does not know how to sustain success with anyone other than Batman and it will piss you off if you’re unfortunate enough to have a fave break out only for DC to run them back into the ground.
I guess in all fairness this was around the time people were demanding more women writers on WW and DC made an effort to find them - but this stretch of time disabused me of any notion that women make for “better” WW writers. If anything queer men tend to be the best WW writers, and straight women tend to be terrible with KSD being the only real exception recently. Sucks she isn’t interested in doing a run on Diana herself, I wish she would reconsider. I think it would help Historia sales if KSD took on the main book too.
FWIW I think King is the first one since Rucka to bring a sense of importance back to the book. It’s not aimless, there’s a clear bad guy and a theme that King is exploring, and it’s resulted in a level of excitement and interest that WW hasn’t seen since Rucka left. Also Sampere is a beast on art, in the wake of guys like Ivan Reis departing DC, Sampere is one of the three big guns.
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Flash actually had a big sales boost due to the CW run. In early Rebirth it was second in sales only behind Batman.
DiDio even said it was the only time in his entire tenure he saw synergy actually boosting a book.
Consistency doesn't really matter when the Azz run exists in its own little pocket universe. Your friends who you recommend Azz's run to might like it and then be disappointed when they find out that's not even remotely close to Wonder Woman's mythos and legacy, and not want to read more.
Lets not get crazy here.
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The Rebirth era felt like crossing the Sahara desert, I liked Year One but it was only downhill from there. It wasn’t outrageously bad by any means, it was arguably worse than that…Rebirth was unbearably mediocre imo (sort of like a Marvel movie). You don’t love it, don’t hate it, don’t love to hate it, you get nothing out of it…a true sign of the times