I've said before that I do love a good compilation. This is one of those things that sounds so good in my head, but in reality kind of falls short. The problems, for me, are (1) there are so many stories you could pick, but such limited space that something good is going to miss out and (2) there are rarely any done-in-one stories anymore that anything you put in a book like this is going to be one part of a multi part story. So odds are you're going to be lost or not really care what's going on.
It's an interesting choice of stories here. The oldest is from the beginning of George Perez's run and the most recent is from the Azzarello/Chiang run. I'm bummed out that nothing from Phil Jimenez's run on the book made the cut. Or from Allan Heinberg's run. But space limitations and such.
The book does work well giving you a lot of fighting. Wonder Woman battles Ares, Max Lord, Cheetah, Power Girl. You get a nice variety. There's an issue of Geoff Johns' New 52 Justice League in here that really doesn't fit. At all. I wish that was sacrificed in favor of something else.
All in all, it's a good, mindless romp through Wonder Woman's recent history.
Wonder Woman: Her Greatest Battles
Writer: George Perez, John Byrne, Greg Rucka, Gail Simone, Geoff Johns, Brian Azzarello
Artist: George Perez, John Byrne, Drew Johnson, Rags Morales, David Lopez, Tom Derenick, Georges Jeanty, Karl Kerschl, Chris Battista, Fernando Dagnino, Jim Lee, Cliff Chiang
DC Comics
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