This is the only post I'm going to make on this thread so I'll just lay it all out. I got no interest in indulging another power level complaint thread.
Loeb was a popular but overrated writer who could churn out a halfway descent story. His stories don't really hold up to close scrutiny (a friend of mine did a really great dissection of TLH and Hush and how they fall apart as both mysteries and stories) and he is usually strip mining ideas from other better writers but gets all the credit for it. For the record, he wasn't the first guy to have Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent team up in their early years. That said, his stories tend to be self contained and thus accessible to newer fans who want to get into certain franchises and he is carried by strong artists like Tim Sale, Jim Lee and Ed McGuiness. Hush was a gateway comic for me as was TLH and DV before it were for other fans. I mean, even Superman/Batman is just the two characters going on wacky adventures centered on their friendship.
Then Loeb's son died and he had a break down which lead to complete crap like Ultimates and the above posted scans of Marvel characters getting brutally murdered followed by a whole slate of comics where he was just working his grief. I think the Sam Alexander version of Nova was based on his son. And look there are artists who can turn their pain and grief into powerful works of art and well, Loeb didn't exactly do that with his stories. :
oints at Ultimates:: Instead, he dialed up the worst aspects of 00's comic storytelling by 10 fold.
Anyway, Loeb is also another fanboy turned comic book pro and like many, there are certain assumptions that he hadn't gotten over. Hence why his Amazons tends to be hot headed, shoot first-ask questions later types and his WW comes off as 'bitchy' and overly confrontational. Lady Shiva established as on par with Batman in martial arts? Not in Loeb's book. She just gets taken out like a chump 'cause nobody could top Batman*. Cass Cain is the new Batgirl? Nah, screw that. Loeb is not going to include her in his tour of the Bat Family book Hush and not even mention her at all. He is also just going to have a version of Clayface pretend to be Babs Batgirl so he can do a Supergirl/Batgirl cross over without using the current incarnation of Batgirl. This was the first hint of his anti-Asian racism before we learned that he blocked story lines and casting for Asian characters and creatives when he was overseeing Marvel's Defenders shows.
Even in that particular story that the OP is talking about, WW's characterization makes little sense. For those who don't know, in that story the scan posted above was taken from, Superman and Batman were kidnapped during their childhood and raised to be dictators of that world. Wonder Woman is part of the resistance. At first Diana is all about leading the charge and she manages to kill Batman. So far so good. But then when confronting the enraged Superman, she is suddenly trying to talk him out of it which doesn't make sense because for all this Diana knew, Superman is an evil dictator that needs to be stopped. The resulting scuffle leads to WW's neck getting snapped by her own lasso.
*except Catwoman. bad dum tsss