{"id":17670,"date":"2025-04-15T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlair.net\/austin\/?p=17670"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:16:03","slug":"wonder-woman-where-do-i-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlair.net\/austin\/wonder-woman-where-do-i-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Woman, Where Do I Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Wonder Woman. Diana Prince.\u00a0One of my favorite characters in comics, portrayed in movies and TV; sometimes incredibly, sometimes not so flatteringly.\u00a0 Who\u2019s the best of the best it becomes hard to say.\u00a0 Lynda Carter in the 70\u2019s, Gal Gadot recently, or voiced amazingly by Shannon Farnon in the <em>Super Friends<\/em> Cartoons, and Susan Eisenberg in the <em>Justice League<\/em> and <em>Justice League Unlimited <\/em>cartoons.\u00a0Our bigger question is where to start reading about this character to get a good grasp of who she is.<\/p>\n<p>For young readers in particular, I would suggest \u2018<em>Diana: Princess of the Amazons<\/em>\u201d written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale.\u00a0This is a children\u2019s graphic novel about Diana (Wonder Woman) when she is a very young girl being raised on the island of Themyscira.\u00a0 An island nation of women who are thousands of years old.\u00a0 This story is simply amazing.\u00a0 Diana has to deal with a lot of issues young kids have to deal with and navigate those issues.\u00a0 Loneliness, desire to play when adults must work to name a couple.\u00a0 A really fun read with really cute art. I loved this book and feel it is good for all ages. The sequel \u201cDiana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons\u201d is really wonderful as well!<\/p>\n<p>For more mature readers tastes, I would suggest \u201c<em>Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia<\/em>\u201d by Greg Rucka (not just because I am a huge Greg Rucka fanboy).\u00a0Anything he writes is amazing, but this story is truly a great deep dive into who Diana is and the Amazon culture.\u00a0 Beautiful art by J. G. Jones.\u00a0One of my favorites<\/p>\n<p>Another truly amazing book is \u201c<em>Wonder Woman \u2013 Spirit of Truth<\/em>\u201d by Paul Dini and art by the amazing Alex Ross.\u00a0This story is where Diana is trying to find her relevance in todays world.\u00a0Truly captivating and one of the books I really treasure in my collection.<\/p>\n<p>I would end by suggesting<em> DC New Frontier <\/em>by Darwyn Cooke.\u00a0 It is not a Wonder Woman book per se, but she is in it and some of my favorite Wonder Woman scenes of all time are in this book, which was made into an animated movie.\u00a0 Darwyn did the screenplay, so it is fairly faithful to the book.\u00a0 The book does go deeper into many areas.\u00a0 Lucy Lawless voices Wonder Woman.\u00a0 It is very much worth a look. DC New Frontier is set in the 1950s, right between the Golden age and Silver age of comics.\u00a0It tries to make sense of the massive changes that took place then in the comics that were never explained.\u00a0What happened is McCarthyism, and the book \u201cSeduction of the Innocents\u201d which blamed comic books for the corruption of the youth of America.\u00a0The government was very close to shutting down the entire comic book industry.\u00a0So the comic industry got together and created the Comic Code of America, and made sure all comics were safe for kids to read.\u00a0 All Supernatural and Horror comics disappeared.\u00a0Batman stopped carrying a gun and shooting people.\u00a0 Alan Scott\u2019s Green Lantern disappeared, and Hal Jordan appeared as the new Green Lantern, which were a type of space police instead of just a hero as he was before.\u00a0 Many changes.\u00a0But they were never explained in the comics, they just happened.\u00a0This book tries, and succeeds in making sense of it all.\u00a0Truly one of my favorite DC Comics storylines of all time.\u00a0It also makes a brilliant primer for the entire DC Comics Universe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Greg Burrow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Wonder Woman. 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