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![]() ![]() Indeed, Azzarello does perhaps the best job so far of the DC New 52 books in making any prior Wonder Woman knowledge optional, while still making Blood a story about Wonder Woman. "The reader doesn't need to know that much about Wonder Woman," says the New York Times in Wonder Woman: Blood's cover credits. The story here is not so groundbreaking - Wonder Woman writer Greg Rucka pitted Amazon princess Diana against human-formed gods Gail Simone fomented strife between Diana and the Amazons themselves - as is the way the story is told readers have never seen Wonder Woman's world so bleak, for better or worse, than they do here. In the DC New 52's Wonder Woman: Blood, artist Cliff Chiang does his best impression of Azzarello's often-gritty collaborator Eduardo Risso for a decidedly darker Wonder Woman tale. From his villain-hero stories Luthor and Joker or to those like Flashpoint: Batman: Knight of Vengeance, Azzarello's stories show the harsher side of the DC Universe - grotesque villains and overwhelmed heroes with bitter pasts. ![]() Brian Azzarello writes dystopian takes on the DC Comics universe. ![]()
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