Wonder Woman #15
Once upon a time, there was a writer named Greg Rucka who was pretty much the architect of what was best in DC Comics. He knew their characters, their lore, their themes, and their mythos. DC Comics acknowledged this even within the story of their own comics, and then something went wrong and terrible things happened: Greg Rucka left DC Comics, and then DC Comics unleashed the nu52.
Greg Rucka started telling amazing stories elsewhere – Lazarus and Stumptown and Veil and Black Magick. He did some writing for video games – Syphon Filter and AR-K – and then combined both mediums with Dragon Age: Magekiller. DC Comics, meanwhile, lost one if five of their readers over the first year of the nu52, and those numbers never really got better. They learned as they were dying, though. An olive branch was extended.
Rucka returned to do a one-shot for DC Comics, and sometime during that process he somehow ended up writing Wonder Woman following the latest reboot, which has seen DC Comics flirting with their former glory and stories much better suited to them. There's been some exciting happenings, some good comics, and among the best of them is Rucka's take on this comic.
Diana has had some conflicting theories and stories over her long history, as some people have gotten her and what she is about more than others. The core of the character, though, is a recognition of absolute truth tinged with an incredible sense of mercy; she is the purest sort of warrior-philosopher, a literal demi-goddess.
Rucka has had Diana turn that truth inward in recognition of all the people she has been, all the lives and continuities that she has wandered through, and it's making for a complex story that is adding some serious layers to an already complex character. Out of all the characters at DC Comics, Wonder Woman is the one I'd want to write the most, and Greg Rucka is just making me want to write her more.
You really should be reading this, because there's a good chance we'll be looking back on this run the same way we look back on the Dark Knight Returns when it comes to Batman.
