What the $#/! is Happening with Wonder Woman?

When DC launched it’s new 52, it was probably the most drastic change to a major comic book line since they had grown to these huge mainstream commodities. As it followed a basic reset of almost all of their major characters and stories (some of which being dealt with currently with the Convergence crossover), a lot of issues came with it’s outside of the run of the mill bemoaning about change. Popular “B” & “C” level characters were sidelined or forgotten, some were whitewashed or given aesthetic make overs that carried it’s own politics (like Amanda Waller or Lobo) and some just disappeared. Few “great” things came out of New 52, but Wonder Woman written by Brian Azzarello and penciled mostly by Cliff Chiang, was one of them. Wonder Woman wasn’t without its flaws or controversies. Many were turned off by the tinkering of the origin story of both Diana Prince and the Amazons (forgoing her being born of no man, but now to Zeus and the savagery of the Amazons on display). These aren’t without merit and I definitely don’t want to step on those that had concerns about that story and it’s implications. They also, for me, don’t derail the fact that it was an incredibly written Wonder Woman tale that had redefined the scale of her story in a way that may not have been done before. For those who didn’t turn away from the book on principle, the acclaim for the book was large and enduring and universal.

Not long after confirmation was spreading that Man of Steel was just the first of…