Horrors of Wonder Woman

After the debut of his 1998 Vertigo miniseries Jonny Double, his first team-up with artist Eduardo Risso, Brian Azzarello quickly established himself as one of comics’ most reliable crime writers. The following year, he reteamed with Risso for the revenge epic 100 Bullets, which ran for 100 issues over the next decade. The Eisner Award-winning duo recently reunited for the new sci-fi series Spaceman, which follows a genetically engineered NASA leftover caught in the middle of a celebrity-child kidnapping. Azzarello’s work over the years has not been limited to crime stories and has included a memorable run on Hellblazer, some notable Batman stories, the lengthy Superman tale For Tomorrow, and Loveless, a Western series. He recently returned to superhero comics with Wonder Woman, one of the most acclaimed titles of DC’s recent relaunch, taking the Amazon warrior in a horror-influenced direction that couldn’t be further from the ’70s TV show. The A.V. Club spoke with Azzarello about the development of Spaceman’s futuristic dialogue, how Diana compares to his previous femmes fatale, and his opinions on the DC “Trinity” of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.