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 fleshed out internal existence as well as her star spangled appearance. Princess Diana dealt with war, injustice, inequality, death, and of course the Olympian Gods.

Diana developed a strong supporting cast with her friend/mentor Julia Kapatelis and her daughter Vanessa. Steve Trevor was reintroduced as a friend about twenty years older than Diana was. Instead of Steve being romantically attached to Wonder Woman, he fell for and married Lieutenant Etta Candy.

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 former renegade Amazon named Artemis.

Mike Deodato was the artist during this period who drew Wonder Woman wearing the "Wonder Thong", a patch of cloth so small it wouldn't make a respectable slingshot.

After losing her title as Wonder Woman, Diana worked as a full time bounty hunter and still fought crime as well. In the midst of this change, she made a friend out of Donna Milton, a corrupt lawyer who had seen the light via Diana's example. Though pregnant with the child of Ares, Donna quickly became a trusted friend.

Diana and Wonder Woman(Artemis) at the climax of the 100th issue fought Diana's nemesis: The White Magician, a corrupt former super hero. At a pivotal moment during the battle, Donna Milton's facade shattered, revealing herself to be Circe in disguise. Now revealed, Circe had really been changed by Diana's influence, leading her to save Diana before vanishing. 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. It was pretty abyssmal. John redesigned her look, gave her bigger breasts, and was drawing her out of perspective. If that wasn't bad enough, he has returned Diana to a cardboard cutout of what she was under George Perez. Stilted dialogue, lame hacknayed story concepts, and most lame of all: he put her in fictional Gateway City. I think Byrne needed/needs a clue *and* a life.

Instead of archealogist Julia Kapatelis we now had Helena Sandsmark, curator at the Gateway Museum. Instead of Julia's daughter Vanessa, Byrne created an obnoxious thirteen year old as a new 'Wonder Girl'. As Diana was elevated to become the Goddess of Truth, Hippolyta, whom everyone referred to as 'Polly'(ugh) became Wonder Woman.

Byrne has compounded his crimes by doing a company wide retcon that sent Hippolyta as Wonder Woman back to the Golden Age to join the Justice Society. Not only did 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 was like spitting on the Mona Lisa. With issue #136, Byrne was gone, and then after a two issue arc by Christopher Priest, Eric Luke(of Ghost) was writing with Yanick Pacquette(from Warrior Nun Areala) handling art.