This book haunts me.

I thought I had seen the best of artists outdo themselves in drawing super detailed comic art: when Otomo drew the collapse of the city in Akira, or when Inoue drew every single leaf, bud, and foliage in a sword fight scene in Vagabond, or when George Perez drew Crisis on Infinite Earths' characters. I've seen so much comic art that made me stop reading and gawking. I remember stopping turning the page on Yusuke Murata's One Punch Man for the whole 5 minutes, thinking about how many hours he spent on this page and how angry his assistants were when told to draw those pages. Did they use Xerox? Did they trace photos; you know, boggling questions disbelieving an artist actually spent days for one page that read a mere second by most readers.

Then, Phil Jimenez wiped those pages from my mind with Wonder Woman Historia. Every page haunts me. Each page just made me stop reading for 10 minutes. They made me wonder what was in their mind when they decided to create this page; they determined to do so and succeeded in making us lose it. The pages even made me wonder if I dared to call myself a comic artist. I know it would take an equally great story writing to force Phil Jimenez to go the distance.

And for the story, I can't praise it more. I like folklore (I read Willingham and Cunningham's Fables), histories (I adore Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze), myths, pseudo-history (crazy of Professor Munakata series), and all that. This is not a superhero story. Thank Zeus, it's not! Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick retells how the Amazons were created from the goddess's wrath towards mankind. Man-kind. This story puts Wonder Woman as a champion of not only the world but of women.

This large book generously showcases the lavishly beautiful artworks. The last pages are dedicated to explaining the process of making this book: character designs, iterations, techniques, and other details.

If....if you love comics and are thinking of what comics to collect just for the art. Just be careful.

It will haunt you, too.