Wonder Woman #12 - "The Stick and the Carrot"

[laughing_tree]

One of my favourite issues I've ever written in my life - and one that had a huge impact on my life - was I did a Green Lantern issue for The Darkseid War crossover, that Geoff Johns wrote, with Doc Shaner and I. It was just a single issue and you know Geoff's like, "You have to do this and this and this." And yet, in that space, we were able to tell what I consider to be one of my best single issues. It's fun to be in that space, because you can really run there. You can do what Alan Moore did when he was given Crisis and Swamp Thing. You can make beautiful gold out of the thing. -- Tom King

Comments

[metadronos]

Alan Moore was never given Crisis.

[aperturedreams]

I'm certain that Tom is referring to the Crisis tie-in issues of Swamp Thing Moore wrote.

[blues32]

What did they do to Mongul? Used to be that Superman had to use strategy to win against him because Mongul was just too damn strong. Now these three knock him out in one blow?

[blueprintstyles]

the rules go away when it's a comedy issue, Harley Quinn beat Superman in a boxing match

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oh? How did that work? Do we have it here?

[bruinsfan]

Hasn't Superman been somewhat depowered whenever he's faced Mongul post-Crisis? I know originally Mongul was made to be an uphill battle for him, but I thought that reversed after 1985.

[thanekos]

Captain Boomerang swears at length, is defiant solely out of petty spite towards his interrogators, and only talks about giving up the needed info when the act's framed in terms of how awful Amanda Waller is.

Checks out.

[deh_tommy]

I don’t care if the bad guys “deserve it”, the casual torture just feels so cruel and wrong for the Wonder Women to do and yet it’s always played for laughs.