Not caught up to the thread? No worries! Each of these stories, with a few exceptions, is relatively self-contained. Though obviously the more you've read, the more you'll like it. You can start with any writer you want.
Part 1 - Gods and Mortals (George Perez) desuarchive.org/co/thread/91303244/ Part 2 - Challenge of the Gods I-II (George Perez) desuarchive.org/co/thread/91309099/ Part 3 - Challenge of the Gods III (George Perez) Part 4 - "Taco Whiz" (Bill Messner-Loebs) Part 5 - The Contest (pre-Crisis) Part 6 - The Contest (Bill Messner-Loebs) Part 7 - The Challenge of Artemis (Bill Messner-Loebs) Part 8 - Paradise Lost + 1988 Bonus Books (Phil Jimenez) Part 9 - Paradise Found + Girl Frenzy: Donna Troy (Phil Jimenez) Part 10 - A League of One + The Golden Perfect (Christopher Moeller, Joe Kelly) Part 11 - The Hiketeia (Greg Rucka) Part 12 - Stoned (Greg Rucka) Part 13 - Land of the Dead (Greg Rucka)
If he didn't fuck up Batwoman so bad, I'd love to see Andreyko on Wonder Woman
Cooper Howard
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Eli Ross
Same. Though I overall dug Batwoman, despite the problems
Henry Baker
IMO Andreyko, at least here in Manhunter, is kinda like Bendis done right. The decompression isn't a big deal when you're genuinely interested in the story, like a good TV show.
Lucas Clark
If you haven't read the rest of Manhunter, some of the things here might leave you a bit lost. But this arc was also kind of designed to be a jumping on point, since the comic was at big risk of being cancelled.
Brody Butler
And at the end of the arc it WAS cancelled. So at least half of issue #30 is devoted to wrapping up the whole run. And most likely I'll only be posting the Wonder Woman-relevant pages of that issue.
Andrew Baker
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Kevin Anderson
>since the comic was at big risk of being cancelled. Bless Didio for letting it being uncancelled twice
Nathaniel Hernandez
I still love how Didio went from being the pariah of all cape comics to being beloved in just a couple years.
Jackson James
Funny enough, Manhunter as a whole is basically the polar opposite of Wonder Woman, yet Andreyko totally captured her personality better than Rucka IMO, which makes an incredibly interesting dichotomy between her and Kate.
Noah Jenkins
Andreyko also wrote the brilliant Wonder Woman '77 which we will eventually be reading.
And the even more brilliant Wonder Woman '77 Meets Batman '66, which is everything I dreamed it would be and more.
Joshua Lopez
Wait, is that an Adam Hughes reference?
Kevin Myers
I want to get the Trinity absolute edition for my collection, should I just get "Wonder Woman by Azzarello and Chiang", absolute edition or wait for another story to get an absolute? Like Morrison's year one?
Noah Ward
>last panel Lewd
Gabriel Sullivan
Unfortunately I don't think she's gonna get many Absolutes. I'm sure Earth One will get one, so it's just up to you for which one you like more.
> I'm sure Earth One will get one Hopefully, I kind wonder though since I haven't read either year one or much of Azzarello's run (only first arc), if it's worth picking up. Or just waiting you know. >Unfortunately I don't think she's gonna get many Absolutes. Travesty, the fact that GL has 4 fucking Absolute editions but WW only has 1 so far.
Henry Allen
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Dylan Hughes
Her strength lies in her long runs more than OGNs. I guess if Johns GL can get Absolutes, maybe Rucka and Perez will, too.
Jeremiah Bell
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Austin Johnson
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Jaxon Ortiz
Mmmm, guilty ham sandwich...
Thomas Ortiz
When I was a kid, me and my grandpa would play Monopoly, and he'd always go "DEY FROZE MY ASSES!" whenever he ran out of money.
Isaac Rodriguez
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Joseph Sanders
God rest his zombie bones.
Dominic Anderson
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Jeremiah Scott
This reminds me, I gotta get up with Better Call Saul's new season.
I guess I'm lucky, because my longest running torrent was Season 2 of Miami Vice which sat at 99.8% for three months
Henry Lewis
Hey Tex.
>Manhunter Oh, Kate Spencer, you utter train wreck of a woman. I kinda love her. She is such a huge pain in the ass, but I can't stay mad at her because she's still fucking great even though she kinda sucks. She's like a more mature Max Caulfield pushed through a filter of Ally McBeal. And it somehow works.
Pairing her up with Diana was an inspired move, since this arc brings out the best in both of them while acknowledging their flaws.
Luke Fisher
I've got a thing for extremely obscure spaghetti Westerns so I have quite a few that have been in limbo for months or years with zero seeders.
Austin Myers
>Kate Spencer >Cameron Chase >Sasha Bordeaux
It's like the trinity of stronk female characters from the mid-00's, all that's missing is Kate Kane, Maggie Sawyer, and Renee Montoya and we'd have ourselves a Justice League.
This reminds me of all the great little shops and Easter Eggs in Arkham Knight.
Jaxon Rodriguez
The word is "t'weren't"
Dominic Phillips
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Joshua Ross
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Isaac Gray
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Blake Roberts
Speaking of Maggie, I miss back when she looked like a butch lesbian, now she's just generic comic book pretty and I for one do not care for that one bit.
Samuel Ortiz
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James Jackson
You'd think Bennett would be all over that.
Joseph Howard
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Caleb Perry
You know Batman does this shit on purpose. He probably gets a kick out of it.
Jayden Parker
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Julian Cox
Maggie is in Supergirl
Julia is being used for that instead
Grayson Rogers
Oh yeah. Supergirl disappointed me pretty early on, has it gotten any better?
Zachary Cooper
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Blake Cooper
Sounds like some of my mornings in college.
Anthony Thomas
And not from parties. Do I seem like a party person to you?
Gabriel Cruz
We can't have butches anymore, cause people will whine about Tumblr and what not.
Well okay, to be "fair", it's also because a butch character theoretically requires drawing something other than a generic supermodel figure, and I'm pretty sure most artists would respond to such a request with a gunshot to their own head.
Elijah Richardson
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Joshua Parker
Funny that probably both people would whine about Tumblr and "Tumblr" itself would whine.
Michael Diaz
Which is ironic since the guy who created her and gave her that original butch appearance was sameface artist extraordinaire, John Byrne.
Bentley Evans
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Austin Bennett
I wonder if members of Checkmate just carry suitcases full of chess sets everywhere.
Logan Reed
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Liam Rivera
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Nolan Perry
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Jacob Jackson
I like the idea that Diana knows it was the shittiest thing ever that she had to do, and that it's alarmingly uncharacteristic of her.
See, that's an interesting way to deal with having a character in a contrived situation like that.
Dominic Morgan
When people ask shitty questions like "if you had to choose between someone killing your mom or your dad, who would you choose?" I just don't answer, because that's a situation that 1) will never, ever actually happen and 2) is just not a choice at all.
That's how I see stuff like what Diana had to do. She would never do it, but was in a situation where she literally could not do anything else, and so just has to deal with that. And deals with the feelings by saying "I can't spend time regretting it, because I did what I had to do, and what anyone else would do".
Adam Foster
And while I feel this wasn't really represented well in the comics, it's how I justify the story.
Juan Hughes
Why does everyone look like they have jaundice in this comic?
Benjamin Collins
Nah. While butch lesbians(especially butch lesbian cops) are a bit of a stereotype, it's not like they don't exist. Plus they tend to be portrayed as far less obnoxious than their male counterparts, the flaming gay guys that only really exist in movies. So overall, I doubt the "Tumblr" crowd would have a problem with her. Shit, she'd be supreme waifu material really.
Byrne made her? That's vaguely uncomfortable.
Then again, he also made Cassie, and that's very uncomfortable.
Joseph Turner
>I won't destroy that for an easy win And I don't know if that was an intentional dig/lampshade of my theory that the whole thing was DC saying "one of the trinity has to kill someone" and Diana was picked because Superman and Batman were just too famous.
Alexander Hernandez
I think actually there could have been some influence from David Fincher in that choice.
Juan Moore
From my experience on Tumblr, the social justice cult hates literally everything. It's like a contest to see who can be the most offended.
It's almost literally mirror Sup Forums. No matter what you do, they won't be happy.
Butch lesbian, that's a stereotype. Hot lesbian, that's a stereotype.
That's why you just ignore Tumblr and Sup Forums and Twitter and do what you feel is right.
Justin Wood
I can't remember what it was, but something I read recently you could literally see Superman's dick. Like, not just a big bulge like in this page. Just straight up you could see his entire dick under his pants.
Jayden Gomez
Sorry but at this point I think I'm just gonna be skipping the non-Wondie related pages, because it's gonna spoil the whole thing for anyone who hasn't read Manhunter before.
Ryder Clark
In a panel of Spider-Man Reign, you could actually see Peter's wrinkly old man balls. Marvel had to recall that issue.
