Wonder Woman started over in 1987 with new numbering, a new look, and a new writer. George Perez, best known for his work on New Teen Titans and Crisis On Infinite Earths was the writer and illustrator for the new Wonder Woman. Brilliant is the only appropriate term to use for his run on the book.

Perez returned Wonder Woman to her basics. Wonder Woman was not a superheroine, but an emmisary of peace from a mythological land. She was a babe in the woods, completely without guile. Most brilliant was making Diana have to learn english when she came to America for the first time. In her previous incarnations, Wonder Woman knew english when she came to America, even though they only spoke classical greek on Paradise Island

Through Perez's tenure on the book, Wonder Woman became a rich character with a fully fleshedout internal existence as well as her star spangled appearance. Princess Diana dealt with war, injustice, inequality, death, and of course the Olympian Gods.

Perez's run stopped with #62, leaving Wonder Woman in a bit of a limbo. She was a pirate for a bit during an outer space jaunt, worked at a fast food restaurant, and was a bounty hunter for a brief period of time. This all changed with Wonder Woman #0.

During the Zero Hour debacle, Wonder Woman was forced to be a participant again in the tournament to decide who would be Wonder Woman. This time, the winner was a formerly renegade Amazon named Artemis.

After losing her title as Wonder Woman, Diana worked as a full time bounty hunter and still fought crime as well. Diana and Wonder Woman(Artemis) at the climax of the 100th issue fought Diana's nemesis: The White Magician, a corrupt former super hero. In this battle, Artemis was killed, leaving Diana as the Wonder Woman.

With issue #101, John Byrne took over the writing and illustrating chores for the book. Currently, it's pretty abyssmal. John redesigned her look, gave her bigger breasts, and is drawing her out of perspective. If that wasn't bad enough, he has returned Diana to a cardboard cutout of what she was.Stilted dialogue, lame hacknayed story concepts, and most lame of all: he put her in fictional Gateway City. I think Byrne needs a clue *and* a life.

Now we've had an obnoxious thirteen year old as a new 'Wonder Girl,' had Byrne commit scores of heinous retcons, and gone through the abyssmal life, death, and ressurection of Diana. Now Hippolyta, whom everyone refers to as 'Polly'(ugh) is Wonder Woman.

Byrne has compounded his crimes by doing a company wide retcon that sends Wonder Woman back to the Golden Age to join the Justice Society. Not only does this undo some important post-Crisis history, there seemed no point to it except to establish a Wonder Woman in the Golden Age. But, if he wanted to make that seamless, then he wouldn't have forgotten that when Diana first appeared as Wonder Woman, no one remembered the Golden Age version or connected the two together.

While the Loebs/Deodato version began diverging from the previous Perez model... the Byrne version is like spitting on the Mona Lisa. Thank the gods that with issue #136, Byrne will be gone, and then there will be a two issue arc by Christopher Priest, and then we shall have Eric Luke(of Ghost) writing and Yanick Pacquette(from Warrior Nun Areala) will be doing the art.