From www.philly.com
WONDER WOMAN vol 2, #1
(Feb 1987)
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WONDER WOMAN vol 2, #2
(Mar 1987)
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Wonder Woman turns 65
By JEROME MAIDA
Posted on Wed, Jul. 05, 2006
AS WONDER WOMAN celebrates her 65th birthday with an impressive relaunch of her comic series by writer Allan Heinberg and artists Terry and Rachel Dodson, it is clear that the character is an icon that transcends the comic-book world.
(excerpt)
Then in 1987, DC relaunched the character with a new #1, spearheaded by George Perez, who emphasized the character's mythological roots.
For two decades, his interpretation has been considered the definitive version of character and has influenced all subsequent writers.
But after just one issue, Heinberg's 2006 relaunch seems poised to redefine Wonder Woman for years to come.
From John Byrne Messageboard
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WONDER WOMAN vol 2, #1
(Feb 1987)
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WONDER WOMAN vol 2, #62
(Feb 1992)
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Topic: Mr. Byrne....Q about Fearbook
Posted: November 25 2004 at 2:32pm
When I was offered WONDER WOMAN there were a
lot of things that came immediately to mind -- not the
least of which being that I would have to be out of my
frigging mind to follow George Perez, even if it was
ten years later.
One of the actual story concepts that came to me,
tho, in the midst of my fear and trepidation, was to
wonder just how our Decent, God Fearing Nation
would respond to a woman who was walking around
claiming to have, you know, actually met the Greek
Gods. Bound not to sit too well with the Jerry
Falwells, I figured.
Unfortunately, this also seemed like a story that I
could not really handle properly in a monthly
superhero comic. (Hey! This was ten years ago!
Today, I know, I could do 200 pages of Wonder
Woman pacing her apartment worrying about all this.
Now that's comic books!) Then I was asked to
do the novel, and I realized that was a perfect place
to explore all the themes this idea suggested.
| November 3, 2003 | WW Turns 200 |
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From Newsarama
RUCKA, COHEN TALK WONDER WOMAN #200
posted 11-03-2003 04:46 PM by MattBrady
(excerpt)
Yes, she has been here before, but in January, DC’s Wonder Woman hits #200 in a double-sized issue with plenty of extras. In addition to the main story, the special issue has back ups, set ups for the next year, and pin ups. It’s also got Greg Rucka writing and Ivan Cohen editing, and we chatted them up.
First off, yes, this is the second time past the #200 mark for Wonder Woman at DC. The first series (which started in 1942) hit the mark in 1972, and ended with #329 in 1986 – a direct result of Crisis on Infinite Earths. The current Wonder Woman series (with a revised origin and written and drawn by George Perez) started in 1987, year after the first concluded.
| November 1, 2003 | WW: Ultimate Guide Available Now |
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From Vu
WONDER WOMAN: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE AMAZON PRINCESS
(Nov 2003)
(rep)
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According to us.dk.com the item ships November 3rd, but it is already at book stores.
Looks like the direct market (aka Diamond) lost once again to the book market.
If you ordered this book through Diamond, look for it sometime next Wednesday (if it makes it at all).
To be fair, Diamond's distribution have always been bad of any products outside of comic books. Do not even think about ordering a DVD from them, chances are the DVD will be available long before Diamond gets a hold of it.
I did flip through the book and there are a lot of reprinted material from George Pérez's WONDER WOMAN #1 as well as other issues. The other interesting thing is that the cover is by Adam Hughes, instead of Phil Jimenez.
From us.dk.com:
Wonder Woman - The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess
Scott Beatty - Author
Roger Stewart - Illustrator
$24.99
Book: Hardcover | 10.27 x 12.16in | 144 pages | ISBN 078949616X | 03 Nov 2003 | 8+ years
Culled from the archives of DC Comics, Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess details the amazing exploits, incredible adversaries, and magical weapons of the greatest comic book heroine. Packed with original comic book images and a timeline charting Wonder Woman's entire career, this comprehensive illustrated treatment will delight fans of all ages-and win over many new ones.
| May 11, 2003 | CBG: Catching up with Giordano |
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From COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1540 (23 May 03)
CATCHING UP WITH DICK GIORDANO
written by George Nelson
as published in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1540 (23 May 03)
websites: www.comicsbuyersguide.com and
www.futurecomics.com
(excerpt)
Though several of the revamps that followed were successes for DC - George Pérez's Wonder Woman represented one of the few times the characters sold well, he remarked - the fixes in some cases created as many problems as they solved.
"I have to admit that, after Crisis was over, I wasn't watching things as closely and we got new continuity glitches built in by the writers and editors who were there," he said.
Giordano said that one mistake he made was not following writer [Marv] Wolfman's suggestion to restart the entire line with new first issue following Crisis. However, he said he didn't feel that he had the creative personnel for such a comprehensive relaunch.
| April 30, 2003 | WW Movie in Early Pre-Production |
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From Wizard
REEL WORLD: Wizard's guide to the coolest upcoming comic-related movie projects
Wednesday, April 30
written by The Wizard Staff
(excerpt)
Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.)
MAJOR PLAYERS: Joel Silver (producer), Becky Johnson (screenwriter)
RELEASE DATE: In early pre-production
PREMISE: An Amazon princess born and raised on Paradise Island far from the eyes of men, Diana becomes protector of the free world. Possessing the strength and beauty of the Greek goddesses Aphrodite and Athena, she is Wonder Woman!
THE LOWDOWN: While still in the early stages of production, producer Joel Silver assures fans that a Wonder Woman film will definitely come to fruition; it’s just a question of when and who will play the Amazonian goddess. “We're going to make ‘Wonder Woman’ at some point,” says Silver, who was quick to mention that the long-rumored Sandra Bullock won’t be starring. “At one point, we talked to her about it and she was intrigued with it. It’s come a long way since then.”
DID YOU KNOW: Sure, Lucy Lawless would make the perfect Wonder Woman. We’d take Sandra Bullock or even Catherine Zeta-Jones, but would you believe Kelly Osbourne has been rumored to be up for the role? Sources at Warner Bros. indicate Ozzy’s foul-mouthed offspring actually had a screen test. God bless the personal trainer who’s recruited to whip Osbourne into shape!
| February 6, 2003 | Wonder Woman and Virginity |
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From
Sequential Tart
Oh, The Wonder of Her Virginity
February 2003
by Rebecca Salek
Wonder Woman, Sex, An Island Fulla Maybe-Lesbians, And What the Heck Is a Virgin, Anyway?
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When the series was relaunched in 1986 by George Perez, that origin changed only a little structurally; but the changes were profound mythologically. In the new series, the Amazons were created from clay by all the Goddesses of Olympus; they were the reborn souls of women whose lives were cut short by the violence of men; Queen Hippolyte herself had been murdered by an enraged husband millennia earlier. The Amazons made their home in the beautiful city of Themiscyra, but, while they interacted with men, theirs was a single-sex society. When Herakles (Hercules) and his men marched against the city, the Amazons were seduced, tricked, defeated, chained, slaughtered, and raped. The Goddesses freed the Amazons, who then turned on their attackers. But the Amazons' freedom had a heavy price: they were exiled to a distant island where, in exchange for watching over an ancient evil buried by the Gods, they were granted eternal life and eternal youth.
How, then, to understand the Amazons? How do we define them sexually? Can they be understood as strictly heterosexual or strictly homosexual, as we define the terms in our two-gender world? Or even bisexual?
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January 1, 2003 | Wonder Woman: The Movie in 2005 |
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From Movies.Yahoo
Wonder Woman
Greg's Preview
(excerpt)
Release Date Notes: (7/25/02) This will probably be a summer tentpole release of whatever year it's eventually slotted for; as of this writing, with it expected to follow Batman vs Superman, the earliest it's likely to be seen is in 2005 or later.
Based Upon: The long-running and popular superheroine, as published by DC Comics. This will be the first feature film about her, although there was a flurry of activity on TV in the 1970's. First, Cathy Lee Crosby starred in a 1974 telefilm. A year later, Lynda Carter starred in another telefilm that placed Princess Diana in World War II (where she got her start in the comics), which became a popular TV series that aired in 1976-1979. 1977 brought a move from ABC to CBS, and a modern setting. Oh, and Debra Winger's career pretty much started with her supporting role as Wonder Girl in three episodes in season one. NBC was considering a new TV series in 1998, but scrapped it.
Official Site: WonderWomantheMovie.com (probably won't be active until filming gets started, someday)
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(Vu: As of this writing, this project isn't based on anything created by George Pérez, but it should be interesting to see.)
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| October 25, 2002 |
Wizard: The Ultimate Move |
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From WIZARD #135 (Dec 2002)
THE ULTIMATE MOVE
written by James McDonough and the WIZARD staff
Should it or shouldn't it? With controversy swirling, WIZARD lets loose the 10 reasons why Marvel should 'Ultimize' its entire universe.
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10. IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE DC's been there done that. Way back in 1986, DC Comics was in a similar fix. After half a century, their heroes had grown stale and their universe convoluted. With the multiverse epic Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC streamlined its entire line, ushering in a series of unheard of relaunches for its most popular heroes.
"I wouldn't have read DC Comics if it weren't for Crisis [and relaunches]," reveals JSA co-writer Geoff Johns. "It made a lot of their books really strong again. I became a DC guy because I started right on the heels of all those relaunches and #1s."
With Crisis' conclusion, big-name creators like John Byrne and George Pérez overhauled DC's icons with updated origins. The move proved so controversial that it created a media sensation, getting coverage from print, radio and television. Byrne's Man of Steel rebooted the Last Son of Krypton's entire history from square one. The mini-series starred a younger, less experienced Superman learning the ropes and confronting villains for the first time- basically an Ultimate Superman.
The book was a resounding success and DC quickly followed suit with Frank Miller's Batman: Year One opus, where a rookie Dark Knight used terrorist tactics on criminals. Pérez re-established Wonder Woman as comics' premier heroine by imbuing her with a deep sense of Greek mythology.
[ Read more in WIZARD #135 (Dec 2002) ]
| October 7, 2002 |
Stopping the Bonze Age |
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From COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1509 (18 Oct 02)
STOPPING THE BRONZE AGE
published in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1509 (18 Oct 02)
written by Craig Shutt
Gerry Sorek and Dave Blanchard argued that it was actually Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (Apr 85) that ended the Bronze Age. Gerry noted that DC "was changing direction and leaving the past behind and creating a new version of things (whether they were completely successful or not). This was the first of several companies' retooling projects, leading into a new era." As a result, he says, it indicates "a fitting place to mark the end of that previous time period."
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I understand their point, because Crisis certainly was a change, and a new ages are invoked by great change. But I believe the changes added more superhero excitement to what was there; it didn't stop it. Sure, to a long-time fans who had embraced the multiple Earths and loved the characters as they were, the changes could have been a disappointment and even a betrayal. But in the last 10 years, I've heard a lot of fans say they returned to reading comics because of Crisis.
Comics' ages are about excitement and about super-hero comics. That's how both the Golden Age and the Silver Age claimed their names, and it's why another age would lay claim to the title of Bronze Age. And the bottom line is that Crisis (and Secret Wars before it) added excitement and new fans to super-hero comics.
Besides, Crisis actually didn't change too many characters. It killed some of the duplicated Earth 2 characters who had caused confusion (mostly for editors). It also passed the Flash mantel to Kid Flash. But the major DC reboots didn't occur during or as a result of Crisis.
Only Wonder Woman truly was rebooted based on events from Crisis, and it took one year before her new #1 (Feb 87). Superman was rebooted a few months after Crisis, in the Man of Steel mini-series, but it just happened with no precursor (negating Supergirl's Crisis sacrifice and making the effort to revert Wondie to clay for a fresh start seem wasted)….
[ Read more in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1509 (18 Oct 02) ]
| July 12, 2002 |
Amazon Princess |
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From Sequential Tart
The Amazon Princess (May 2002)
by Tony Wolf
(excerpt)
It's proven hard for Wonder Woman to sustain her own comic book and to keep sales high. However, the 1980s began a new era of potential greatness for our Amazon Princess. George Perez's now-legendary reboot, following on the heels of John Byrne's famous Superman reboot, was perhaps the most successful interpretation of Diana. Incorporating her Greek mythology roots, addressing her non-superhero nature and instead emphasizing her frustration at being an ambassador of peace who was frequently forced to battle evil forces, Perez's run was truly great for about the first twenty issues or so. Then Perez turned the art over to someone else, and somehow the writing seemed to stray a bit from there on.
But Perez also gave Diana an intriguing new supporting cast, full of complex characters (mostly women). He gave Diana a publicist, the ill-fated and complex Mindi Mayer. He gave her Julia Kapetilis and her daughter. He showed Diana speaking at the UN, as well as designing outfits for her that emphasized her regal, classical status over her swimsuit attire. I think most writers agree that it's hard to take Wonder Woman seriously when she's wearing a swimsuit that we all try to accept is supposed to be battle armor.
Perez emphasized the Amazon heritage and showed us the society on Paradise Island. He re-imagined classic WW villains like Cheetah, Dr. Psycho, the Silver Swan, and introduced Circe and Ares, the God of War, as primary new adversaries. He gave us a fun twist on the Steve Trevor/Etta Candy relationship, and gave us some fascinating reasons why an Amazon warrior's costume would sport such distinctively American symbols.
But Perez's great run on the book (sales of which were high, if I recall correctly) soon withered, and by the '40s, vol. II of Wonder Woman had fallen back to its usual status: a book few paid attention to. Despite some interesting story ideas (one tale featuring Eris, Goddess of Discord, and her famous apples, was commendable), WW seemed to be mediocre once again.
[ Read more The Amazon Princess ]
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