I'm not a huge comics reader either, although I am getting more into them these days. But it's great to hear you're interested in reading more of her! :D
Unfortunately, I don't know that much about where the good Superman/Wonder Woman friendship stuff is because I'm not that widely read myself. They have always been really good friends, but most of the two runs of the comic that I've fallen in love with don't feature him heavily. Both of the panels above, though, are from the last issue written by Greg Rucka, in his run (Vol 2 #226) which is kind of a standalone epilogue to his storylines, and is basically a flashback across Wonder Woman's life about her friendship with Superman because in the current timeline she just did something for very good reasons, that devastated him. But you could probably just read it on its own.
As to general reading for her, I guess I'd recommend anything written by either Gail Simone or Greg Rucka.
Wonder Woman Volume 2 ran from issue #1 to issue #226. I would recommend reading issues 195 - 226 as that is Rucka's run and it provides a fairly easy jumping in point. I would include a warning that 195 - 198 are fairly slow and very deliberately takes a stance of talking about how Diana is perceived rather than who she is. This shifts fairly rapidly and ultimately the payoff is worth it, especially in terms of his thematic work with perception vs truth, but I wouldn't blame anyone who read the first four issues for being somewhat underwhelmed having been promised epic battles and tragedy and triumph. The rest of the run, though, is brilliant.
Then Wonder Woman Volume 3 ran from issue #1 - #44, and I'd recommend reading Gail Simone's work on that which is #14 - #44. You could read the first thirteen issues if you want, but you really don't need to. I read them after I read Simone's run and while there were a few things that clarified questions I vaguely had or made me go, "Oh that's what they were referring to" it didn't increase or decrease the enjoyment I had from Simone's run, which was pretty self-contained.
There's a time jump between Volume 2 and Volume 3 that ties into a big universe-spanning, reality-warping event called "Infinite Crisis". And part of the gimmick was that after that all the comic series jumped forward a year to see the characters in new, different situations. I haven't read most of that and it didn't bother me. The two runs work very well as self-contained stories, and basically, the discrepancies between them can generally be explained with the catchall, "there's this missing year; some bad shit went down, don't sweat it."
Unless of course, you want to sweat it. In which case, yay, you obviously like comics a lot now, go read Infinite Crisis then come back and tell me if it was worth it! ;)
Anyway, that was probably so long it was more intimidating than helpful, but I'm really glad you enjoyed the picspam and to hear that you'd like to check out some more about the character. :D
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Date: 2011-07-10 11:13 am (UTC)I'm not a huge comics reader either, although I am getting more into them these days. But it's great to hear you're interested in reading more of her! :D
Unfortunately, I don't know that much about where the good Superman/Wonder Woman friendship stuff is because I'm not that widely read myself. They have always been really good friends, but most of the two runs of the comic that I've fallen in love with don't feature him heavily. Both of the panels above, though, are from the last issue written by Greg Rucka, in his run (Vol 2 #226) which is kind of a standalone epilogue to his storylines, and is basically a flashback across Wonder Woman's life about her friendship with Superman because in the current timeline she just did something for very good reasons, that devastated him. But you could probably just read it on its own.
As to general reading for her, I guess I'd recommend anything written by either Gail Simone or Greg Rucka.
Wonder Woman Volume 2 ran from issue #1 to issue #226. I would recommend reading issues 195 - 226 as that is Rucka's run and it provides a fairly easy jumping in point. I would include a warning that 195 - 198 are fairly slow and very deliberately takes a stance of talking about how Diana is perceived rather than who she is. This shifts fairly rapidly and ultimately the payoff is worth it, especially in terms of his thematic work with perception vs truth, but I wouldn't blame anyone who read the first four issues for being somewhat underwhelmed having been promised epic battles and tragedy and triumph. The rest of the run, though, is brilliant.
Then Wonder Woman Volume 3 ran from issue #1 - #44, and I'd recommend reading Gail Simone's work on that which is #14 - #44. You could read the first thirteen issues if you want, but you really don't need to. I read them after I read Simone's run and while there were a few things that clarified questions I vaguely had or made me go, "Oh that's what they were referring to" it didn't increase or decrease the enjoyment I had from Simone's run, which was pretty self-contained.
There's a time jump between Volume 2 and Volume 3 that ties into a big universe-spanning, reality-warping event called "Infinite Crisis". And part of the gimmick was that after that all the comic series jumped forward a year to see the characters in new, different situations. I haven't read most of that and it didn't bother me. The two runs work very well as self-contained stories, and basically, the discrepancies between them can generally be explained with the catchall, "there's this missing year; some bad shit went down, don't sweat it."
Unless of course, you want to sweat it. In which case, yay, you obviously like comics a lot now, go read Infinite Crisis then come back and tell me if it was worth it! ;)
Anyway, that was probably so long it was more intimidating than helpful, but I'm really glad you enjoyed the picspam and to hear that you'd like to check out some more about the character. :D