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) desuarchive.org/co/thread/91350699/ Part 4 - "Taco Whiz" (Bill Messner-Loebs) desuarchive.org/co/thread/91378988/ Part 5 - The Contest (pre-Crisis) desuarchive.org/co/thread/91415540/ 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) Part 14 - Manhunter: Unleashed (Mark Andreyko) Part 15 - Marathon (Greg Rucka) Part 16 - The Circle (Gail Simone) Part 17 - Ends of the Earth (Gail Simone)
Isn't this like the currently longest consistently running comic volume still going?
Bentley Sanchez
>she's cute, let's torture and kill her instead of just killing her
Robert Martinez
Yes Longest big two comic without renumbering. RIP hellblazer and fables.
Asher Peterson
The fuck is this
Nolan Sanchez
Byrne moved Diana to "Gateway City", which is the made-up city she sometimes operated in in the Silver Age.
Henry Carter
"Anywhere" isn't an answer, Diana
Owen Miller
>We're from an organization called SchmildSCHMATs
Ryan Roberts
Cyberella is an American comic book series first published in 1996 as part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint, Helix. The title was initially scheduled to be an ongoing monthly, but, owing to poor sales figures for both it and the Helix line generally, was cancelled after twelve issues in 1997. Written by Howard Chaykin and drawn by Don Cameron the title has been variously described as a techno-satire and a populist cyberpunk dystopia.
Brandon Anderson
Oh, Helix, that I know about. I guess they changed the name from Matrix.
Jack Anderson
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Hunter Bailey
So this guy is a Belmont?
Camden Baker
COMIC URBAN LEGEND: DC had to change the name of their Helix line of comic books because of the Shadowrun role playing game.
STATUS: False
When DC announced the name of their new science fiction and science fantasy line of comic books (that notably featured Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan) back in 1996, the name of the line was the Matrix. However, there also grew a significant scuttlebutt that it, instead, had to do with the Shadowrun role playing game, which included a Matrix of their own. Reader Richard Rittenhouse explains:
The story that I heard at the time was that the change was prompted by FASA, the publishers of the SHADOWRUN pen-and-paper role playing game. In the game, there was a virtual reality cyberspace called the “Matrix”, and the publishers had supposedly trademarked the term.
Gabriel Jones
Yes, that’s pretty much what happened. Given the way things change all the time in Hollywood, I was just glad when THE MATRIX film actually came out, under that name, and was a hit. At least that justified all the last-minute hell of changing our imprint name. I remember, at the time, being sure that years later I’d go to the theater and they’d have changed the movie’s title to “THE LATTICE,” or something. That would have been too much.
Jeremiah Ramirez
Interesting. But definitely they couldn't trademark a word as generic as "matrix".
That was probably the fastest turnaround from the introduction of a new character to them being revealed as an evil traitor I've ever seen.
Michael Cook
Artemis one-ups that bitch from 50 Shades of Gray
BRB coffee
Michael Perez
Demons out of fucking nowhere. Watch Artemis ruin a superhero team literally the day she joins it, that's impressive.
Jeremiah Martin
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Jacob Reed
Oof. Went to the local BIG-BOOKSTORE to check out their renovated "graphic novel" section. Lots of nice oversized things, but little Wonder Woman. They did have several "Wonder Woman by Mike Deodato" copies
Carter Murphy
This looks cool
Julian Diaz
Let's hope that means people are just buying everything up
Ryder Lewis
Isn't that just the Punisher's costume?
Julian Peterson
LOL
Jacob Baker
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Jace Barnes
Posting just for the hilarious Judge Batman face
Daniel Scott
Leading to the best JLA run. Nice
Christopher Anderson
Largest thing there should have been the Sandman Absolute vol.4 that was chilling on the top of the shelf, but it was absolutely dwarfed by some Marvel Avengers "Adamantium Edition" thing that I didn't bother to even look at (seriously huge).
It looks like a pretty crummy collection because it's just pieces of completely disparate, unconnected runs, when you could just get the actual omnis for those entire runs.
It's like you're paying a premium price for a sampler.
Jordan Cruz
I like Artemis' "watching a video" pose.
Evan Wilson
Also note that she is still standing on her tiptoes
Jonathan Gutierrez
Yep, wrong Metal. I found a funny picture of a guy holding it. The price is for the size, not the contents:
I want the WML Wonder Woman stuff collected in an omnibus.
Chase White
Same. It's only 38 issues altogether, including this mini.
I think if DC really wants to reverse the misconception that Wonder Woman "doesn't have any good stories", they really gotta push all these great runs from her history.
Hudson Morris
Yup it's Helix now
Jackson Wood
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John Turner
I like how unlike characters like Azrael and Eradicator, Artemis is still basically a good guy.
Matthew Moore
"Squeamish Flesh Shell" is the name of my band
Grayson Jones
Or maybe "A Thousand Painful Pleasures"
Daniel Ward
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Samuel Reyes
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Caleb Diaz
Intradasting
Dominic Price
More tentacles!
Jace Parker
>Demons... and the women who hunt them! Why can't real life TV be as awesome as this?
Tyler Green
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Sebastian Torres
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Carson Richardson
That lady's skirt is way too short for broadcast television.
Christopher Reed
Maybe she's actually wearing a one-piece like Artemis
Easton Gonzalez
>STRIKT
Andrew Howard
Bayonetta-style Artemis game when?
Benjamin Mitchell
Mai edgy waifu.
Wyatt Perry
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Jonathan Allen
This one's for you, user
Zachary Martinez
This is why I love her
Asher Collins
Definitely got the legs and ass for it.
Charles Brooks
Javelin was a member of the Suicide Squad, who got killed in War of the Gods when Circe impaled him on his own javelins