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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 11:51:20 GMT -5
DC has announced WW #25 will be Greg Rucka & Liam Sharp's last issue. No word on whether Bilquis Evely will remain.
Writer Shea Fontana will write #26-30 with artist Mirka Andolfo doing #26-27. |
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Post by Randle-El on Apr 13, 2017 13:05:05 GMT -5
Good. Now he can focus on his creator-owned stuff. Don't read WW, don't really care about DC Rebirth. Ever since they announced the WW gig, I knew that Black Magick and Lazarus would both be getting the short end of the stick, and those are two books I *do* care a lot about.
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Post by Warmonger on Apr 13, 2017 14:12:17 GMT -5
Good
Maybe now I won't have to wait 3-4 months in between issues of Southern Bastards.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 19:11:20 GMT -5
I dug Rucka's first run on WW, but this time has been a disappointment to me (and my girlfriend) from the start.
I look forward to Fontana on the book, I really dig her DC Superhero Girls stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 19:39:37 GMT -5
I dug Rucka's first run on WW, but this time has been a disappointment to me (and my girlfriend) from the start. I look forward to Fontana on the book, I really dig her DC Superhero Girls stuff. His Year One arc was excellent. I wasn't a fan of the way one story was told in the even # issues & another in the odd # issues. His pacing in the story with Sharp was way too slow. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 20:04:55 GMT -5
Rucka's run just hasn't clicked for me since the get-go.
I was a huge fan of the Azzarello run, and it seemed like Rucka undid everything pretty quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 20:35:58 GMT -5
Rucka's run just hasn't clicked for me since the get-go. I was a huge fan of the Azzarello run, and it seemed like Rucka undid everything pretty quickly. Well the Azzarello run pretty much undid everything ever done with the character before and Rebirth was supposedly about getting the characters back to their core, so they were pretty much looking for whoever took over Wonder Woman for Rebirth to undo everything Azzarello did. That was the editorial mandate for the entire initiative, and for books like WW in particular. That's not on Rucka, it's on Johns and company because that's what they were asking for when they were finding creative teams for books like WW. Whoever got the gig for WW for Rebirth was going to undo what Azzarello did. Rucka is a writer whose stuff I will usually check out (particularly his creator-owned stuff) his first run on WW was not a particular favorite of mine of the stuff he has done, and I have only read the first trade of the Rebirth WW (which only collects the Sharp issues not the Year One stuff with Nicola Scott)and it felt like more of the same with me for Rucka on WW. It's not bad, just not something that got me particularly excited. I still liked it better than the Azzarello run (I got through 2-3 trades of that before giving up with the intro of Orion) but it was mostly the Cliff Chiang art that kept me coming back up to that point. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 13, 2017 21:38:02 GMT -5
Good Maybe now I won't have to wait 3-4 months in between issues of Southern Bastards. Ummm...I have no idea why this would effect Southern Bastards. |
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Post by Warmonger on Apr 13, 2017 22:05:56 GMT -5
Good Maybe now I won't have to wait 3-4 months in between issues of Southern Bastards. Ummm...I have no idea why this would effect Southern Bastards. As far as I know, Bastards is a creator-owned title between Aaron and Latour. And if Aaron is moving away (at least some, I assume he'll still write Dr. Strange, etc) from his Big 2 work...then that will give him more time to work on his own projects. Series like Bastards and The Goddamned have been coming out at a snails pace. So if moving away from the umpteenth portrayal of WW will move said projects along, then I'm all for it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 22:46:02 GMT -5
Ummm...I have no idea why this would effect Southern Bastards. As far as I know, Bastards is a creator-owned title between Aaron and Latour. And if Aaron is moving away (at least some, I assume he'll still write Dr. Strange, etc) from his Big 2 work...then that will give him more time to work on his own projects. Series like Bastards and The Goddamned have been coming out at a snails pace. So if moving away from the umpteenth portrayal of WW will move said projects along, then I'm all for it. Except neither Aaron nor Latour is working on Wonder Woman nor have they been. Aaron does Star Wars and Thor for Marvel (he already announced he was leaving Doc Strange after #24 I believe-he's leaving just not sure which issue), while Latour did either Spider-Gwen or Silk iirc. Greg Rucka was writing Wonder Woman, his creator owned stuff is Lazarus, Black Magick and Stumptown. Nicola Scott is the artist on Black Magick and she did 6 issues of Wonder Woman with Rucka because it was her dream job, putting Black Magick on hiatus while she did it, but she has been back working on Black Magick for a while (they're putting issues in the can before releasing the first issue of the new arc so they don't have to skip a month during the arc). Liam Sharp is moving to another DC project and isn't currently doing any creator-owned stuff. None of the current (soon to be former) creators on Wonder Woman are involved in any way with Southern Bastards or The Goddamned (well maybe letterers and colorists, I didn't check). -M |
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Post by Warmonger on Apr 14, 2017 6:29:01 GMT -5
As far as I know, Bastards is a creator-owned title between Aaron and Latour. And if Aaron is moving away (at least some, I assume he'll still write Dr. Strange, etc) from his Big 2 work...then that will give him more time to work on his own projects. Series like Bastards and The Goddamned have been coming out at a snails pace. So if moving away from the umpteenth portrayal of WW will move said projects along, then I'm all for it. Except neither Aaron nor Latour is working on Wonder Woman nor have they been. Aaron does Star Wars and Thor for Marvel (he already announced he was leaving Doc Strange after #24 I believe-he's leaving just not sure which issue), while Latour did either Spider-Gwen or Silk iirc. Greg Rucka was writing Wonder Woman, his creator owned stuff is Lazarus, Black Magick and Stumptown. Nicola Scott is the artist on Black Magick and she did 6 issues of Wonder Woman with Rucka because it was her dream job, putting Black Magick on hiatus while she did it, but she has been back working on Black Magick for a while (they're putting issues in the can before releasing the first issue of the new arc so they don't have to skip a month during the arc). Liam Sharp is moving to another DC project and isn't currently doing any creator-owned stuff. None of the current (soon to be former) creators on Wonder Woman are involved in any way with Southern Bastards or The Goddamned (well maybe letterers and colorists, I didn't check). -M Yep, brain fart on my end. Not sure why I got Rucka confused with Aaron. |
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Post by Randle-El on Apr 14, 2017 10:58:28 GMT -5
Yep, brain fart on my end. Not sure why I got Rucka confused with Aaron. It's understandable. I can see why you'd confuse the two, as they quite closely resemble each other.    |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2017 12:04:51 GMT -5
One of the problems with Wonder Woman overall is that the continuity is a mess. So let's do a year-long, 24-issue storyline about how Wonder Woman's continuity is a mess.
Yeah. That'll work. What are the chances that could be a mess?
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Post by String on Apr 18, 2017 12:21:01 GMT -5
Good. Now he can focus on his creator-owned stuff. Don't read WW, don't really care about DC Rebirth. Ever since they announced the WW gig, I knew that Black Magick and Lazarus would both be getting the short end of the stick, and those are two books I *do* care a lot about. ^This. Lazarus #26 was released a week or two ago and that was the first new issue since last Nov (or late Oct). As it stands, I'm gonna have to re-read the previous issues of Black Magick to refresh my memory as to what happened. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 29, 2017 2:26:09 GMT -5
I've never read Rucka's Wonder Woman, but from what I remember from online samples and previews, I think he's the only WW writer I've seen attempt to come to grips with the mythological aspect, especially the contradictions between the ancient Greek mythology that WW is partially based on and the DCU superhero mythology in which the character actually has to function. The artwork never grabbed me enough to actually read the comics but I've always kept his name in mind as someone I might want to read some day.
But Black Magick and Lazarus both look good, and I think I will make one or both of them my first Rucka series.
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