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Here is a true thing. When the great @perezartist was asked to do a 'farewell' Wonder Woman story for a DC WW anniversary issue.  He said, this guy who completely reinvented Wonder Woman and made her the awesome heroine she is today that he would "only do it if Gail Simone writes the story."  I don't know why he did it, other than just being generally awesome.  But he was already my hero for reinventing so many of my favorite characters, for his brilliant art and storytelling, and generosity.

So, I get the call, and it's one of the few times I ever just stopped and panicked a little.   It was..."Wait. It's George PEREZ drawing? And it's his FINAL Wonder Woman story? And he wants ME to write it? What? What's happening?"

But I jumped at it, obviously, and because it's Perez, I wrote pages with twelve panels and a million female characters, stuff I would NEVER ask any other artist, right? And the pages come back, and because it's Perez, he's added MORE panels and MORE characters, and it's incredible and I cry a little bit, because the story is George Perez saying goodbye, and his run had meant so much to me, and I got to write his last WW story.

A few weeks later, I get a mysterious package, and it's a bunch of pages of the original art. George just sent me a bunch of the art.  Never even mentioned he was going to do it. Imagine opening your mail and there's four pages of Perez art from his last WW story. So I had it all framed, and it's in the hallway to my office, so that it's the very first thing I see when I come to work each day.

Every day, no matter my mood, the first thing I see when I unlock the door, is Diana and Julia and how can you ever be sad after that?  So I try to put some good out into the industry every day in some small way, to somebody.

Because man, George Perez, right? 

      

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It's now clear that George Perez, not only provided the regular cover, but also does interior artwork. This also mean that Adam Hughes variant and B&W variant needs to be included in the Wonder Woman checklist.

Chase/Incentive Variants

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APR100136	WONDER WOMAN #600 75TH ANNIV B&W VAR ED	PI	6/30/2010
APR100135	WONDER WOMAN #600 75TH ANNIV VAR ED	PI	6/30/2010

DCU IN 2010: Dan DiDio on WONDER WOMAN #600
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 By Alex Segura