Lulz this is the only thing that has ever made me want to even try the Flash stuff again, WHAT.
and the continuity she had then doesn't seem to be the continuity she had/has in Volume 2.
No, not at all. I understand nothing about pre-volume 2 Diana! As estara mentions below, George Perez was the writer who rebooted volume 2 of Wonder Woman, beginning in 1987, after Crisis on Infinite Earths. And as I understand it, this run was really significant to the future continuity of Diana, and it was the first time the mythology and Amazonian aspects of Diana's story were really drawn in a meaningful way? Some of Perez's run is dated and some of it is downright faily but lots of it I appreciated, and there are A TON of callbacks in Rucka's run to Perez's. So Perez's made me appreciate Rucka's EVEN MORE (I finally understand and love Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis, for example. I might rec reading Perez just for Julia Kapatelis <3). Perez was slow going at times though. And sidenote, and to oyceter if you're reading along, I have the Perez run and can share if you want it at some point.
Is the rebootish event the issues between Rucka and Simone that you advised skipping?
Partly but not completely? Infinite Crisis is the multi-title extravaganza reboot event between v. 2 & 3. Threads of its set up actually begin towards the end of Rucka's run, so there will be plots that seem to start in the middle in a WW issue, because they started over in a Superman issue. Then there was the mega-crossover event that comprises the actual Infinite Crisis, which is like its own standalone volume of issues. I wasn't that interested, there was too much Batman and Flash &etc., and I didn't like Diana's characterization in it. So I mostly skipped it, and just understood that some things were different afterwards (like, her mother is alive again!), because Comics Plot.
THEN there's the beginning of volume 3 WW, which is post-Infinite Crisis. There are 13 issues from the beginning of volume 3 to when Simone starts writing. Some of them apparently just kind of deal with recalibration after Infinite Crisis, which apparently Diana came out of with this belief that she needs to be "more human" or some such whatever, so she gets a secret identity and stuff? It was just. . . not something I had the least interest in after finishing the epicness that was Rucka's run. Then there's ALSO the FUCKING AWFUL thing called Amazons Attack during this period of volume 3, when the Amazons decide to destroy man's world and, like, murder all men in sight. For real. That is what happens. I was told emphatically not to read it, not even for the lulz. (I peeked anyway. It is ludicrous. So of course, mainstream comics fandom thinks it's great).
Then Simone starts writing and has to Fix This Crap, which she does admirably!
So! That was probably way more information than you wanted! But the short answer is, the things I skipped included: 1) most of Infinite Crisis, the crossover event itself; and 2) the first 13 issues of volume 3, which were very Ill Advised.
I just picked up Simone like it was the beginning of the volume 3 reboot and filled in whatever I was missing through context as I went along. Which works pretty well, because she starts Simone's run by attempting to rescue her mother. <33333 (Though it will make more sense if you have a general understanding of why the Amazons are scattered and banished, i.e. because they murdered all the men in the previous issues. Facepalm).
I didn't mean to make you sorry you asked, it's just, DIANA
and the continuity she had then doesn't seem to be the continuity she had/has in Volume 2.
No, not at all. I understand nothing about pre-volume 2 Diana! As
Is the rebootish event the issues between Rucka and Simone that you advised skipping?
Partly but not completely? Infinite Crisis is the multi-title extravaganza reboot event between v. 2 & 3. Threads of its set up actually begin towards the end of Rucka's run, so there will be plots that seem to start in the middle in a WW issue, because they started over in a Superman issue. Then there was the mega-crossover event that comprises the actual Infinite Crisis, which is like its own standalone volume of issues. I wasn't that interested, there was too much Batman and Flash &etc., and I didn't like Diana's characterization in it. So I mostly skipped it, and just understood that some things were different afterwards (like, her mother is alive again!), because Comics Plot.
THEN there's the beginning of volume 3 WW, which is post-Infinite Crisis. There are 13 issues from the beginning of volume 3 to when Simone starts writing. Some of them apparently just kind of deal with recalibration after Infinite Crisis, which apparently Diana came out of with this belief that she needs to be "more human" or some such whatever, so she gets a secret identity and stuff? It was just. . . not something I had the least interest in after finishing the epicness that was Rucka's run. Then there's ALSO the FUCKING AWFUL thing called Amazons Attack during this period of volume 3, when the Amazons decide to destroy man's world and, like, murder all men in sight. For real. That is what happens. I was told emphatically not to read it, not even for the lulz. (I peeked anyway. It is ludicrous. So of course, mainstream comics fandom thinks it's great).
Then Simone starts writing and has to Fix This Crap, which she does admirably!
So! That was probably way more information than you wanted! But the short answer is, the things I skipped included: 1) most of Infinite Crisis, the crossover event itself; and 2) the first 13 issues of volume 3, which were very Ill Advised.
I just picked up Simone like it was the beginning of the volume 3 reboot and filled in whatever I was missing through context as I went along. Which works pretty well, because she starts Simone's run by attempting to rescue her mother. <33333 (Though it will make more sense if you have a general understanding of why the Amazons are scattered and banished, i.e. because they murdered all the men in the previous issues. Facepalm).