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Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka Omnibus
1040 pages, Hardcover
First published February 3, 2010
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Greg Rucka
1,496 books1,926 followersGreg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
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August 23, 2025
"What is that you seek, Once Princes, Once Goddes?"
I learned the hard way that Wonder Woman is a character I enjoy but not the character I necessarily need to collect, but this book is one Wonder Woman book I'll keep in my collection for a long time, it's that good!
Rucka portrayed Diana perfectly in my opinion, and it really felt like Wonder Woman. Basically, when you imagine Wonder Woman, this is the characterization you imagine. It has a lot of mythological elements, but they are well balanced with our world, and I didn't felt bored whatsoever.
I consider this to be the best Wonder Woman run I've ever read, and I can only recommend it to anyone.
I learned the hard way that Wonder Woman is a character I enjoy but not the character I necessarily need to collect, but this book is one Wonder Woman book I'll keep in my collection for a long time, it's that good!
Rucka portrayed Diana perfectly in my opinion, and it really felt like Wonder Woman. Basically, when you imagine Wonder Woman, this is the characterization you imagine. It has a lot of mythological elements, but they are well balanced with our world, and I didn't felt bored whatsoever.
I consider this to be the best Wonder Woman run I've ever read, and I can only recommend it to anyone.
January 1, 2026
Coming into this, I never really delved into Wonder Woman outside of 1 graphic novel that I thought was horrendous. For a while, that book left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wanted to wait until one day I could give Wonder Woman another fair shot. And fortunately, the day finally came.
In all honesty, outside of The Hiketeia and the first issue of the main run, it was a bit of a slow burn for the first 12 or so issues. But it's when you start getting more of the Medusa arc that you keep wanting to read because you realize that everything is starting to click. The villains get interesting, the supporting cast has a voice, the gods are present and interfering with Diana in numerous ways, and there are actual stakes to the story, and of course, Rucka builds Diana into a beautifully strong and compassionate protagonist. I would say that this book keeps its high for a good number of issues until we get to the Sacrifice arc. Whether you agree with certain characterizations or not, I think this arc kind of slowed the book down for a split second. In the background, Circe and Cale were building up a political conflict that NEVER got explored. You combine that with Rucka not being given the opportunity to finish his entire story of Sacrifice, and I believe it all feels a tiny bit messy. Fortunately, the Cheetah issue comes, and it shows you the parallels of Cheetah and Diana, and I think it was a great issue that gets it back on track. Diana is forced to go back to Themyscira due to a giant attack that requires her help. The ending of this battle is what shifts everything in Diana's life, leaving her alone in many ways, and it's so sad that we didn't get more from Rucka here. Despite this, he is able to finish his run STRONG with the true final issue. A reminder that no matter how alone we feel, no matter how hard times get, hope is what keeps us going. The support Diana gets in the end is lovely.
I'm not sure what run I will eventually tackle next for Wonder Woman, but I hope I get more Ares, Cale, and Cheetah content because this run actually made me interested in her rogues gallery.It's not a perfect run, and some of the panel layouts don't hit as hard as they could for battles, but it's a great run that builds Diana and her lore. I wasn't much of a fan prior, but now she might be my favorite female superhero.
8.5/10
In all honesty, outside of The Hiketeia and the first issue of the main run, it was a bit of a slow burn for the first 12 or so issues. But it's when you start getting more of the Medusa arc that you keep wanting to read because you realize that everything is starting to click. The villains get interesting, the supporting cast has a voice, the gods are present and interfering with Diana in numerous ways, and there are actual stakes to the story, and of course, Rucka builds Diana into a beautifully strong and compassionate protagonist. I would say that this book keeps its high for a good number of issues until we get to the Sacrifice arc. Whether you agree with certain characterizations or not, I think this arc kind of slowed the book down for a split second. In the background, Circe and Cale were building up a political conflict that NEVER got explored. You combine that with Rucka not being given the opportunity to finish his entire story of Sacrifice, and I believe it all feels a tiny bit messy. Fortunately, the Cheetah issue comes, and it shows you the parallels of Cheetah and Diana, and I think it was a great issue that gets it back on track. Diana is forced to go back to Themyscira due to a giant attack that requires her help. The ending of this battle is what shifts everything in Diana's life, leaving her alone in many ways, and it's so sad that we didn't get more from Rucka here. Despite this, he is able to finish his run STRONG with the true final issue. A reminder that no matter how alone we feel, no matter how hard times get, hope is what keeps us going. The support Diana gets in the end is lovely.
I'm not sure what run I will eventually tackle next for Wonder Woman, but I hope I get more Ares, Cale, and Cheetah content because this run actually made me interested in her rogues gallery.It's not a perfect run, and some of the panel layouts don't hit as hard as they could for battles, but it's a great run that builds Diana and her lore. I wasn't much of a fan prior, but now she might be my favorite female superhero.
8.5/10
June 4, 2025
Greg Rucka’s time on Wonder Woman is a perfect run on the character. While it does require a little bit of knowledge on the character (as well as events in the DC Universe at large) it’s a very fun time.
What I liked most about this run was that Rucka managed to humanise Diana while still having her deal with Greek Myth and the Amazons. Her supporting cast is solid and doesn’t outstay it’s welcome.
The run does get wrapped up in the events of Infinite Crisis towards the end, but I felt the series did a good job for the most part keeping readers in the know and I never felt like I needed to read the event to understand what was happening, simply being aware of it in the background is enough.
The art was also very strong, with a nice consistency between the main artists and the fill ins without a massive drop in quality.
Overall a solid time for the Princess of Themyscira.
What I liked most about this run was that Rucka managed to humanise Diana while still having her deal with Greek Myth and the Amazons. Her supporting cast is solid and doesn’t outstay it’s welcome.
The run does get wrapped up in the events of Infinite Crisis towards the end, but I felt the series did a good job for the most part keeping readers in the know and I never felt like I needed to read the event to understand what was happening, simply being aware of it in the background is enough.
The art was also very strong, with a nice consistency between the main artists and the fill ins without a massive drop in quality.
Overall a solid time for the Princess of Themyscira.
July 31, 2025
Some of the best Wonder Woman stories of all time. Rucka’s first run is solid gold.
November 7, 2025
Rucka's Wonder Woman has long been near the top of my list for omnibuses that I'd love to see, so it's great to finally have it in hand.
The main reason is that Rucka totally humanizes Diana. This isn't a goddess (though she once was), but a colleague and a friend. And her supporting cast is just as great. (Though the heel turn of one of them in particular really feels like it comes out of nowhere.)
Rucka also makes great use of Greek myth, really building on the foundation that Perez built.
The problem with this volume is the ending, and it's totally not Rucka's fault.
First, we get Sacrifice, which is a *bad* crossover. Oh, Diana's definitive action isn't bad, but three issues of Superman fighting against imaginary baddies are. I don't know who would have possibly approved that.
And then we get immediately dumped into the OMAC attacks of Infinite Crisis, and there's little but issue after issue of fighting.
And then Rucka totally gets the rug pulled out from under him, so he has to do his best to settle things, but not only have we been denied much of what made his WW great for a half-year by that point, but we don't get much of an ending. (Rucka tries. His final issue on Diana and Clark's history is terrific, just not closure for all of his other characters.)
(And of course DC shuffled Rucka out to bring on Allan Heinberg, who trashed the book with a year-long five-issue storyline and then another year's worth of guest writers until Gail Simone finally picked up the reins.)
Still the first two-thirds of this are top rate, and the latter half still worth reading (well, except maybe the Blackest Night that Rucka returned to write a few years later: that's parody-level bad, as Max-head threatens Diana.)
The main reason is that Rucka totally humanizes Diana. This isn't a goddess (though she once was), but a colleague and a friend. And her supporting cast is just as great. (Though the heel turn of one of them in particular really feels like it comes out of nowhere.)
Rucka also makes great use of Greek myth, really building on the foundation that Perez built.
The problem with this volume is the ending, and it's totally not Rucka's fault.
First, we get Sacrifice, which is a *bad* crossover. Oh, Diana's definitive action isn't bad, but three issues of Superman fighting against imaginary baddies are. I don't know who would have possibly approved that.
And then we get immediately dumped into the OMAC attacks of Infinite Crisis, and there's little but issue after issue of fighting.
And then Rucka totally gets the rug pulled out from under him, so he has to do his best to settle things, but not only have we been denied much of what made his WW great for a half-year by that point, but we don't get much of an ending. (Rucka tries. His final issue on Diana and Clark's history is terrific, just not closure for all of his other characters.)
(And of course DC shuffled Rucka out to bring on Allan Heinberg, who trashed the book with a year-long five-issue storyline and then another year's worth of guest writers until Gail Simone finally picked up the reins.)
Still the first two-thirds of this are top rate, and the latter half still worth reading (well, except maybe the Blackest Night that Rucka returned to write a few years later: that's parody-level bad, as Max-head threatens Diana.)
August 25, 2025
i really enjoyed this from cover to cover. i really hate that they didnt let Rucka write more. i really wish her trial got more detail and most importantly, resolved. im going to jump into what followed Rucka's run to see if there's anything that follows but it just sucks that it's not Rucka's vision. overall, i still really enjoyed this.
August 3, 2025
a quick read! Greg Rucka is slowly becoming one of my favorite writers for sure - I paused Gotham Central to start WW. I liked his concepts and ideas here but some of his execution left me wanting more and felt resolved way too quickly. This was a five star read overall tho.
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