Phil Jimenez Era (2000-2003) Phil Jimenez effectively had no writing credits when he was hired to both write and illustrate Wonder Woman. He had illustrated, among other things, The Invisibles. I liked his work greatly. Many compared it to that of George Perez, though Perez no longer illustrated in as much tight detail as he had in the 1980s, while Jimenez increasingly did. Jimenez's Wonder Woman was a beautiful work. Page by page, the sheer beauty of the realistically rendered artwork was fantastic. The story was another matter. Jimenez began on the title with cowriters, though before too long began writing entirely by himself. Jimenez's ideas were, on the whole, rather good, and his dialogue was better than that. His pacing, however, was not. He filled his pages with as much detail in the writing as he did in his art, resulting in far too many word balloons and captions per page, dragging down the reading experience. Paramount in Jimenez's work was respect for the past. Jimenez showed his obviously deeply felt love for the characters and their histories. Forgotten or largely ignored characters returned in new forms that honored their past ones. Perhaps his greatest achievement, under Jimenez Wonder Woman became a broad canvas featuring a large cast, taking in mythology, super-heroics, and personal moments. These factors combined to cause some attention to be paid to the book. DC produced a quick collection of Jimenez's first four issues, designed to hit stores within two months of their publication, allowing readers the opportunity to get caught up. A larger collection followed. For all of Jimenez's obvious care for the Wonder Woman mythos, he showed little fear in making changes, so long as they were consistent with that past. During the Our Worlds at War crossover, instigated by the Superman titles, Hippolyta was killed and all of Paradise Island destroyed and rebuilt in new form. Wonder Woman was given a burgeoning love life, including the apparent loss of her virginity. A sexual component was brought to the title, one that pervaded the air of the characters' lives rather than the previous sequential light bondage of the early years, the feminism of the 1970s, or the T&A quality of Byrne's work. Jimenez found himself amidst some controversy over sex and sexuality. While filling in for writer Grant Morrison on that title's letter column, Phil Jimenez had mentioned that he was gay. Some objected to this, believing that the title was stigmatized, its readers thought or called gay. Obviously, the opportunity to discuss homosexuality or the relevance or lack thereof of a creator's sexuality or sexualities went largely unexplored. After some obnoxious posts, DC began deleting threads from its message board that dealt with homosexuality, which (after all) had nothing directly to do with the book or the renaissance of sorts that it was experiencing. This controversy, and the perceived desire on DC's and Jimenez's part not to sensationalize the title, seems to have paralyzed, or at least limited, discourse on the title, which felt to many in the press like a bit of a potential landmine. In hindsight, while sex and sexuality played an important thematic part in the series, Jimenez's run should be remembered as a major high point in Wonder Woman history.

IMAGE	TITLE	DESCRIPTION	STATUS
Wonder Woman (second series) #164-174, 176-177, 184-185, 188: Adam Hughes cover
Wonder Woman (second series) #164-167, 170, 172-174, 177, 184-185, 188: Phil Jimenez pencils
Wonder Woman (second series) #164-167, 170, 172-173, 177, 184, 188: Andy Lanning inks
Wonder Woman (second series) #164-167: "Gods of Gotham" storyline; Phil Jimenez and J.M. DeMatteis script
	Wonder Woman (second series) #164	"Discordia"	0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #165	"Avatars"	0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #166	"Fear"; Cam Smith assisted with the inks	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #167	"Faith"; Cam Smith assisted with the inks	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman: Gods of Gotham	collects Wonder Woman #164-167 in a well-produced collection on cheap paper to keep the price down; published on Wednesday, 16 May 2001	B
Wonder Woman (second series) #168-169: "Paradise Island--Lost?" storyline; Phil Jimenez and George Perez story; Phil Jimenez art
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #168	"Loving Submission"	1
without titles or indicia, wraparound not shown Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #169	"Winds of War"; Hughes's cover is a wraparound; George Perez assisted with the inks on 4 pages; published on Wednesday, 2 May 2001	1
without titles or indicia	Wonder Woman (second series) #170	Lois Lane interviews Diana; Phil Jimenez and Joe Kelly story; published on Thursday, 31 May 2001	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost	collects Wonder Woman (second series) #164-170 and "Who is Troia?" from Wonder Woman Secret Files #2; reportedly includes a number of changes in the dialogue of the original [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
Wonder Woman (second series) #171-177, 184-185, 188; Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1: Phil Jimenez story
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #171	participates very slightly in the Our Worlds at War crossover event; Travis Moore and Phil Jimenez pencils; Andy Lanning inks; features the return of Silver Swan and a new male Cheetah; concludes with the destruction of Topeka, Kansas	1
Wonder Woman (second series) #172-173: reprinted in Superman: Our Worlds at War Book Two
without titles or indicia	Wonder Woman (second series) #172	participates heavily in the Our Worlds at War crossover event; concludes with Hyppolyta's death	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1	38 pages of Amazons recounting Wonder Woman history before hearing of Hippolyta's death; Cliff Chiang, Jamal Igle, & Buzz pencils; Wade von Grawbadger inks; Jae Lee cover; published on Wednesday, 8 August 2001	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #173	participates heavily in the Our Worlds at War crossover event; Paradise Island gets destroyed; Diana puts a piece of her soul in Darkseid; published on Wednesday, 22 August 2001	1
Wonder Woman (second series) #174-176: "The Witch & the Warrior" storyline
	Wonder Woman (second series) #174	Circe strikes, using the DC Universe's super-villainesses to transform the male heroes of the DC Universe into half-beasts, leading Wonder Woman to organize the DC Universe's super-heroines (all a bit rushed); Andy Lanning, Lary Stucker, & Marlo Alquiza inks; published on Wednesday, 3 October 2001	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #175	38 pages; Wonder Woman battles a Superman fused with Doomsday; President Lex Luthor, transformed into a spider, resists Circe on his futuristic Air Force One; The Joker, on Air Force Once, gets a lock of Circe's hair, which he uses to make his serum in Joker: Last Laugh #1; concludes with Diana cradling a Superman crying in grief over the events of Our Worlds at War; Phil Jimenez & Brandon Badeaux pencils; Andy Lanning, Lary Stucker, Marzan Jr., Conrad, & Marlo Alquiza inks; Jim Lee cover	0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #176	after having haunting dreams of her mother, Diana defeats Circe in Athens, using JLA technology to put their combat on television around the world and sparing Circe despite Circe's demand to die	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #177	Paradise Island reformed (both literally and figuratively, opening itself up to the world); Diana speaks to her dead mother; Trevor Barnes rescinds his refusal of a date; published on Wednesday, 31 January 2002	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman: Paradise Found	collects Wonder Woman (second series) #171-177, plus some profile pages from Wonder Woman Secret Files #3; published on Wednesday, 19 March 2003 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
Wonder Woman (second series) #178-183, 186-187, Wonder Woman Secret Files #3: no creator or cover data entered
	Wonder Woman (second series) #178	first issue with Jimenez-illustrated back-up feature; published on Wednesday, 27 February 2002	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #179	published on Wednesday, 27 March 2002	0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #180		0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Wonder Woman (second series) #181		0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #182		0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #183		0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #184	"U-Boats & Dinosaurs"; Diana and Trevor Barnes, in the past with dinosaurs, encounter Nazis and Hippolyta during World War II, causing Diana to pose as Miss America; the shrunken Villany, Inc. get free; features an irresistable cover	1
	Wonder Woman (second series) #185	"Daughter's Mother"; Andy Lanning & Lary Stucker inks; as Trevor Barnes deals with dinosaurs and Villany, Inc., Diana as Miss America and Hippolyta battle Nazis; Hippolyta, shacked up with Wildcat in 1943, suspects Miss America was Diana	1
	Wonder Woman (second series) #186		0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #187		0
	Wonder Woman (second series) #188	"Wonder Boys"; Diana spends the day with Trevor Barnes and presides over Paradise Island's Festival of the Goddesses, open to the public; cover-dated March 2003	1
Miscellaneous
	Wonder Woman Secret Files #3	published on Wednesday, 27 March 2002 (the same day as #179)	0

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