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TOP ROW 1) Desira, H. G. Peter 2) Invisible Jet, Phil Jimenez 3) "Asteria", Aaron Lopresti 4) Prince Jason, Jesús Merino 5) Queen Hippolyta with Jumpa, Gene Colan 6) Wonder Girl (Cassie), Francis Manapul 7) Fury (Lyta), Jerry Ordway 8) Fury (Helena), Tom Grindberg BOTTOM ROW 9) Hercules, Walt Simonson 10) Shim'Tar, Phil Jimenez 11) The Olympian, Aaron Lopresti 12) Queen Nubia, Jerry Ordway 13) Wonder Woman, Jason Fabok 14) Donna Troy, Jim Lee 15) Wonder Girl (Yara), Joelle Jones 16) Artemis (Requiem), John Byrne 18) Siegfried, Travis Moore Look at this collage! Look at the star-studded list of artists, whose extraordinary talent brought these classic characters to life. Isn't this one of the biggest suitcases of butt-kicking in the DC Comics Universe?! While not as well known, it's as cool, diverse and big, as the costumed families of all them big man-superheroes! Honestly, upon gathering the Wonders together for a family portrait, ..the variety of style and loo...

Second Edition By Edgar Miraculous Dyer With celebrity writers regularly trashing the Wonder Woman comic's super-villains in the media, why is Doctor Cyber still in mothballs? Why does it seem that, where  Doctor Cyber  is concerned, that  Wonder Woman  editors are pinching their noses or ignoring her altogether? She's a GREAT supervillain, comparatively speaking, ..and might be a top tier villain in comic books, like Mighty Avengers, Iron Man or Uncanny X-Men, ..while completely wasted in the pages of Wonder Woman. Will the prospective success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens force DC writers/editors to reconsider Cyber, as a major Wonder Woman villain? If there's anyone at DC Comics, who can see past the next CHEETAH story - anyone with a real vision for Wonder Woman's place in the world in and beyond the comics - this has got to happen. Ala Darth Vader, Doctor Cyber wears an armored suit, enabling her to fight the Titans to a stand-still! (Don Heck ar...

Second Edition By Edgar Miraculous Dyer I think comics illustrator superstar,  George Perez,  left the comic and the Wonder Woman,  inside  it, on the right track, in 1992. Perez returned her to her original mission and independence in Man's World. His Diana promised 'visits' to Paradise Island, to her heartbroken mother, Queen Hippolyta, in Perez's last issue, which he wrote, himself. Seeing her visit the Island again, was something I could live with - even look forward to. Discarding the Amazons, as I see it, is out of the question, because I think the Island has always been a special part of the  Wonder Woman  comic… And should remain so. UPDATE: Things are changing, in the pages of Wonder Woman...   HAPPILY EVER AFTERWORLDS: CONRAD, CLOONAN, MOORE AND THE SECOND GOLDEN AGE OF WONDER WOMAN (wondabunga.blogspot.com) Wonder Woman can't even go for a morning dip, without three thousand Ama...no wonder she left that damn island! Prob'ly. (H. G. Peter ar...

Second Edition By Edgar Miraculous Dyer Big problem with the  Wonder Woman  comic's perennial arch-villain,  Cheetah,  is how  unclear  it is exactly what she wants! Just what exactly does this lady  want,  from one story to the next? Is it money? Immortality? Blood-lust? A very big ball of string? What? Whether it's the Great American novel, a classic film, we, the audience, w...whatever - we absolutely  must  know what the  villain  wants ..and is willing to do the most awful things, imaginable, to get! That's the whole story. Find a super-villainess, worthy of sharing that bill, with  Won der Wo man,  ..and you have a  headline. UPDATE: Things are changing, in the pages of Wonder Woman...   HAPPILY EVER AFTERWORLDS: CONRAD, CLOONAN, MOORE AND THE SECOND GOLDEN AGE OF WONDER WOMAN (wondabunga.blogspot.com) Furthermore, it has rarely, if ever, been established how what Cheetah wants, that makes her uniquely...

Second Edition By Edgar Miraculous Dyer I am not sure  Prince Jason,  Wonder Woman's  twin brother,  should exist, ..at all. At least, I'm not sure he should have had a storyline built around him, in the  Wonder Woman  comic. It might have been smarter to introduce Prince Jason in a  smaller  way, without devoting an entire issue to him. It might have been smarter to, instead, use that time to show him in action, with or against his sister, in some spectacular, game-changing role to play. I think, if he had appeared briefly in the story, leaving a decisive impact, we would be having a different conversation about him ..and looking forward to the special  "The Amazing Origin of Wonder Woman's Brother, Jason"  issue, filling in the blanks, ..later. In the good, ole day, a popular superhero's brother would have been introduced to us, as if he'd been there, all along! That's how many of the great comic book characters were introduced. Prince...

PHIL JIMENEZ... You have WORKED, so incredibly, relentlessly hard to get to this moment--to impact and raise the expectations of what we expect to find in a comic book, how it can transform our LIVES ..and how we see each other--and we're so proud of you, Phil. You have told us you were one of those 80s kid artists, worshipping the masterful pencils of the late, great George Perez, ..emulating his style in your work. "You can't look at a Phil Jimenez, without thinking of George Perez", we say! When you hear fans say or write things, like that, it's got to be a little awkward, because we LOVED that generous man and what he shared with all of us, ..but, I think they are coming from a pure place. A place of sincere appreciation for you both. You truly are one of the greatest X-Men, Wonder Woman and Titans storytellers and illustrators, generally speaking, of our generation. You have been an inspiration to aspiring Latino and LGBTQA comic book creators, alike, ..a nd...

By Mel Dyer This cover really makes me miss the imaginative world-build that artist Cliff Chiang's and  100 Bullets  writer Brian Azzarello's run brought to the  Wonder Woman  comic. It was a  landmark  run, and on the skyline of the comic's greatest creative periods, it stands out, ..with decidedly quirky distinction. Looking back on the comic's 80th anniversary, it was  memorable.  Can't say that about all of them! The Chazzarello run on  Wonder Woman  - better known, as DC Comics'  New 52  - changed the context of Wonder Woman's  superheroic mission,  in that it left her reasons for coming to the world of men, ..a  mystery,  which Brian never truly solved for us. In its place, he and Cliff gave Diana a quirky, imaginative and iconic world, from which to launch her stories and, occasionally, explore her myth-inspired background. I even miss the nifty raptor companion,  Zephyrus the Wonder Eagle,...