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A New York TimesBestsellerAs a part of the acclaimed DC ComicsThe New 52 event of September 2011, the first six issues of the critically acclaimed new Wonder Woman series are collected in hardcover!Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept a secret from her daughter all her lifeand when Wonder Woman learns who her father is, her life will shatter like brittle clay. The only one more shocked than Diana by this revelation Bloodthirsty Heraso why is her sinister daughter, Strife, so eager for the truth to be told Superstar writer Brian Azzarello creates a new direction for one of DCs best-known heroes, with spectacular art by Cliff Chiang and Tony Akins!,
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Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15-18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee) .In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin. As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson. information taken from
