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Wonder Woman: Fans singing Johns' praises, criticizing Azzarello

With the revelation that Cheetah is finally making an appearance in the DCnU (yay!), some Wonder Woman fans have made comments such as "Johns is doing what Azzarello won't" and that "Justice League is a better Wonder Woman book than Wonder Woman." Then they'll talk about "the hack writing WW, and the genius writing JLA." Um.....let's compare their treatment of different characters between the two:

Brian Azzarello

1. Turned Hippolyta into a liar who slept with Zeus.

2. Turned the Amazons into basically whores who slept with men for children. (Basically turned them into Welfare whores from the ghetto.)

3. Revolutionized the Greek gods' characters and personalities.

4. Brought an epic saga storytelling to the book.

5. Brought WW's sales and quality back to how they were with Rucka, who was arguably the best writer since Perez.

Geoff Johns

1. Brought back Steve Trevor and made him Diana's lover-man again. (Cuz SOMEONE had to get rid of the Supes/WW pairing.)

2. Randomly "Affirmative Actioned" Etta Candy for no good reason.

3. Did the same thing by replacing Martian Manhunter with Cyborg, which makes absolutely no freaking sense whatsoever, whilst completely insulting the history of MM with the whole "he was a villain" crap.

4. Seemingly got rid of the Frank Miller "Batgod" treatment that Bats used to get when around metas, as well as seemingly restoring the Silver Age friendship of Superman and Batman that was also destroyed by Frank Miller.

5. Had a book that despite being the premiere book of the relaunch, hasn't gotten decent until recently.

6. Treated Wonder Woman like a battle obsessed bimbo in the 1st few issues, and constantly using tired fish out of water humor and characterization.

7. Ruined Captain Marvel. 'Nuff said.

So count the pros and cons of each and tell me Johns isn't losing his luster. Despite him revolutionizing Aquaman, and writing Green Lantern better than before the reboot, he seem to be acting like the OTHER Geoff/Jeph/Jeff....ya know, of the Loeb variety.

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Azzarello's revolutionizing Wonder Woman I agree with you there but Johns isn't doing too bad a job on Justice League. Yes the first arc was a big action blockbuster with poor storytelling and issue 8 was basically an advertisement for all of DC's big storylines and new titles but with 9, I felt like he finally had a handle on the characters. He's getting to grips with the team now and hopefully the Villain's Journey will be the start of better writing from Johns. Admittedly it's not at Green Lantern standard but he's doing a better job now.

As for Manhunter, whilst I love the character, he's even more powerful than Superman. Having two super powerful aliens on the team kind of limits the amount of conceivable threats they face. Plus I'm loving Stormwatch with Manhunter in as presumably that had something to do with why he 'betrayed' the Justice League. However, Cyborg shouldn't be a founding member. I'm fine with him ascending to League status, that would be great but not as a founding member. Johns gave the excuse that Cyborg represents our use of technology as an extension of ourselves like cell phones and computers but I'm not buying it.

Everyone seems to think Johns hates Batman and can't write him well but Earth One has had great reviews, better than Superman: Earth One. And I find Johns' Batman alright. He still nicked Hal's ring without his knowledge.

Finally, whilst I miss the innocent Billy Batson, juvenile delinquent Billy is growing on me. It'll make for a better story if he learns to discover how worthwhile a person he can be. I like how Johns is building up Billy to receive the power of Shazam instead of just launching in and giving Billy his powers.

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Some WW fans are going to cling to old concepts "which are being brought into the JL" over new ones being explored in her own title. It is simply a preference.