Kurt Busiek would be my ideal pick, but like Jimenez, I think he's soured on the state of the DCU and the character at the moment.
Kurt Busiek would be my ideal pick, but like Jimenez, I think he's soured on the state of the DCU and the character at the moment.
"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
I agree, continuously rebooting the character and throwing out everything when a new writer comes on is exactly why Wonder Woman isn't on the level of Superman and Batman. She's never been able to establish a stable mythology. The next writer who comes has to build upon what Azz created in his run. Either Soule or Bunn would be good choices.
Yes, and yes!
Batknight couldn't be more right. Having new writers come in and throw away everything the previous writers did is EXACTLY the thing that has kept Diana from the level of popularity Superman and Batman enjoy.
When a new writer takes over on Superman and/or Batman, what happens? Oh, he might focus on different villains. He might make more use of certain supporting characters. He might change the type of story being told......but he will NEVER throw away everything that came before and he will NEVER seek to "fix" Superman and/or Batman by completely re-inventing him from the ground up.
Superman and Batman are popular because EVERYONE KNOWS WHO THEY ARE. Everyone knows who Superman and Batman are and what they do. This is because they have gone largely unchanged for decades at a time. Each subsequent story has only BUILT on the work of previous writers.
Wonder Woman NEEDS that as well. Constantly uprooting her entire story has only kept her stunted and underdeveloped as a character, and has led to the misconception that she's a deeply contradictory character with an acute case of Multiple Personality Disorder.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
To be honest with you, this far in, for the most part I don't disagree. The Amazon sex pirate business is the only thing I think is so seriously wrong as to warrant a retcon. I wouldn't even mind her staying the Goddess of War; maybe she is or becomes Athena, who from some interpretations was born from Zeus's brain. She's always been more like Athena than Artemis anyways.
This run will always be like ashes in the mouth for me; but at least part of that is Azzarello's slothful storytelling. In the end, we've no choice but to be grateful for what's little left of Wonder Woman that they condescend to give us.
"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison
Very slow moving and decompressed. That is the general complaint this run gets, and even before the boards got rebooted, some of the more ardent fans of Azz's run mentioned this also.
Not sure where you are getting the "one of the better paced superhero books", unless of course it is in your opinion just that.
Writeups.org -- huge encyclopaedia of characters, chiefly from super-hero comic books. It's great.
I don't see it that way at all.
Lots of stuff happens every issue, the plot keeps going at a steady pace as far as I can tell.
It's just that it is a very, very long story, by superhero standards anyway. It's basically all one arc.
It's most certainly not decompressed. Decompression is a very specific way of telling a story. Ellis and Bendis use it a lot. Azzarello does not.
I call it very well paced because it's very tightly written with not a page wasted on splashes or even on pointles fight scenes that don't do anything to advance the story.
Thank you. People use the word decompressed without learning what it actually means.
I am not alone in saying this series is decompressed. Obviously you love the pace and style. Others will say the opposite. We will have to agree to disagree.
Or, if you are totally convinced that you are in the majority on this, why not start a poll asking whether the pacing is fast, or whether readers think the run is decompressed. It would at least offer an argument to your point that the run is at a 'steady pace' as you put it if the poll is overwhelmingly on your side.