As much as I try to be self-aware and aware of my limitations, at the end of the day I’m another white guy who’s writing Wonder Woman. There’s a good argument to be made that it’s time for new voices to come in and re-examine and re-articulate this character. I’m 50, and I’ve gotten lots of bites at the DC apple. While the New 52 Wonder Woman run was good, many would still say that Greg Rucka’s stories will always be the best. There are always gonna be more stories I would love to tell about Diana and those around her, but one of the things I was aware of when I was writing #750 is that in a lot of ways this is probably the last time I’m writing her. For Wonder Woman, Greg Rucka is the writer most associate with incredible Wonder Woman stories. It also has great mythic action and is very long. It modernises the Greek gods and deals with a lot of political conflinct, focusing on Diana's roles as an ambassador. I have a vision and a take for that character, but as with all things in comics, you’re limited by time and you’re limited by space. Greg Rucka's early 2000s run (collected as Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka volume 1 and 2) is perhaps the best Wonder Woman run you'll ever read. “One of the treats of doing the #750 story was I got to go back and do more with Circe, which was something I didn’t get to on that run. “I’ve easily got another 500 stories I can tell, I’m not exaggerating, about Diana or the things around her: Themyscira, Cheetah, Circe,” Rucka says.
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