Comics Anatomy: Shade, The Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special

By Harry Kassen — Hello and welcome back to Comics Anatomy. This will be the last of the charity commissions and I wanted to thank you all for reading these. I hope you all enjoyed this series-within-a-series (to crib a DC marketing term) as much as I have. It’s been an interesting challenge starting with the title and finding something to write about as opposed to starting with both of those things already. I also want to thank the people who donated money and chose books for me, both for giving money to people in need and also for choosing such an interesting array of books for me to write about.

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Truth Reborn: WONDER WOMAN REBIRTH

By Taylor Pechter — “When a lie is confronted, there are three choices. Admission, and thus honesty. Perpetuation and thus feeble deceit. Or hostility, the child of fear.” Diana of Themyscira, postulating about her current situation. The examination of lies, and said confrontation of them, is brought forward during the first 25 (technically 26 with the Rebirth one-shot) issues of Wonder Woman’s 2016 ongoing series during DC Rebirth. Marking the return of legendary Wonder Woman scribe Greg Rucka — joined by the artistic talents of Liam Sharp, Nicola Scott, and Bilquis Evely, with colorists Laura Martin and Romulo Fajardo Jr., and letterer Jodi Wynne — this run is seen as one of the most unique, and most critically acclaimed of the early Rebirth era.

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7 comics things I like and don't like this week: including the comings and goings at DC, X-Men , and more

By Zack Quaintance — There are many comics things to like and don’t like this week, meaning of course that this is another usual week in comics. And here I am, writing my commentary round-up piece with the title I stole from star ESPN basketball reporter Zach Lowe (a fellow Zach!).

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Greg Rucka’s Wonder Woman: Truth, Justice, and the Amazon Way

By Taylor Pechter — Diana of Themyscira (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) is many things: A hero, a warrior, an icon, but most of all, she’s an ambassador...coming to Man’s World to bring love and peace to a society that is often embroiled in violence and war. This side of Diana is explored heavily in what many say is one of — if not the — defining runs on the character, the run of issues that was written by Greg Rucka. 

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