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Wonder woman rucka7/4/2023 He had years worth of plans, plot points to address, messes to fix, and character arcs to complete, but none of that mattered, as he had been told he was done. Greg Rucka had been fired off Wonder Woman at this point. So for all intents and purposes, this one’s the big ending. The issue after needn’t even be a WW issue, but a separate one-shot, as it’s merely a lead into the event Infinite Crisis (which we’ll touch on a bit more). But while the latter operates as a stand-alone one-shot spanning Diana’s history and relationship with Superman, this is the actual ending. #225 isn’t, obviously, the final issue of the volume, #226 is – and that, too, is written by Greg Rucka. It’s the numerous flaws and obvious failings and it’s all the things wrong, messy, and incomplete within the work. But now, looking back on it, and revisiting it, what fascinates me endlessly about it isn’t the supposed ‘perfections’, not the great big successes. When I first read it as a new reader, though, I certainly believed it was. And it’s also the run to finally cap off and end the long WW volume that began way back in the ‘80s under the stewardship of the legendary George Perez. He wasn’t blessed with artistic collaborators who were there from the start to the end, so there’s plenty of people coming in and leaving, and artistic inconsistency is baked in. Beginnings tell us who we want to be but endings tell us who we were, and there’s few endings finer than this one, wherein Greg Rucka bids farewell to Wonder Woman.
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