Dixon BoP really establishes the Babs/Dinah dynamic (which he insists isn't gay at all, Butch Guice who drew a bunch of issues probably didn't agree); I find it to be a more pure action book than Simone.

The intellectual history part of Lepore is fine, and worth reading. But she doesn't really know anything about (modern) comics and it shows. Even though A-Force is about as underwhelming as it gets. :D

Sandifer is "A Golden Thread"; it's idiosyncratic, but it's just so much better than Hanley in actually discussing comics, so much better.

I did. If you want to read a history of Wonder Woman, Phil Sandifer's is way more interesting. Hanley has almost nothing to say about the Post-Crisis comics at all, and offers a crushingly simplistic reading of the Mod/I Ching era, and ignores any female superheroes who don't fit his "things were so dire for women"…

So is this better than his Wonder Woman book? Because that was a raging disappointment, failing to delve into the Post-Crisis comics with any depth, offering a facile dismissal of the admittedly weird I Ching era, and omitting any female character who didn't line up with his theories when talking about the status of…