Perez returned Wonder Woman to her basics. Wonder Woman was not a superheroine, but an emmisary of peace from a mythological land. She was a babe in the woods, completely without guile. Most brilliant was making Diana have to learn english when she came to America for the first time. In her previous incarnations, Wonder Woman knew english when she came to America, even though they only spoke classical greek on Paradise Island

Through Perez's tenure on the book, Wonder Woman became a rich character with a fully fleshedout internal existence as well as her star spangled appearance. Princess Diana dealt with war, injustice, inequality, death, and of course the Olympian Gods.

Perez's run stopped with #62, leaving Wonder Woman in a bit of a limbo. She was a pirate for a bit during an outer space jaunt, worked at a fast food restaurant, and was a bounty hunter for a brief period of time. This all changed with Wonder Woman #0.

During the Zero Hour debacle, Wonder Woman was forced to be a participant again in the tournament to decide who would be Wonder Woman. This time, the winner was a formerly renegade Amazon named Artemis.

After losing her title as Wonder Woman, Diana worked as a full time bounty hunter and still fought crime as well. Diana and Wonder Woman(Artemis) at the climax of the 100th issue fought Diana's nemesis: The White Magician, a corrupt former super hero. In this battle, Artemis was killed, leaving Diana as the Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman took a dark turn during 2005, particularly in the final portion of the four part "Sacrifice" storyline, one of the major lead-ins to Infinite Crisis. Issue #219 of the current Wonder Woman title ("Sacrifice," Part 4) ended with Diana breaking the long-standing do-not-kill code of DC superheroes. While under the mind control of Maxwell Lord, Superman brutally beat Batman and engaged in a vicious fight with Wonder Woman, thinking she was his enemy Doomsday. During the fight with Superman, she realized that even if she could somehow beat Superman the problem would not be solved, because he'd still be under the absolute mental control of Max Lord. She created a diversion that lasted long enough for her to race back to Max Lord and demand he tell her how to free Superman of his control. Bound in her lasso of truth Max replied, "Kill me," and Wonder Woman snapped his neck

In Issue #221, Wonder Woman defended herself from several OMACs who attacked her in her own home. Having repelled the assailants, she was delivering an injured boy to the hospital at the close of the issue and saw a broadcast of the damaging video on the waiting room's television. She witnessed first-hand how people viewing the footage reacted with fear and revulsion; Brother Eye had managed to kill the faith the world had in her. At the start of Infinite Crisis, Batman and Superman distrust her: the latter can only see her as a coldblooded murderer, the former sees in her an expression of the mentality that led several members of the League to decide to mindwipe their villains. (When he tried to stop the League from mindwiping Dr. Light after the villain brutally raped Sue Dibny, Batman's memory was also altered.)

To make matters worse, in Infinite Crisis #2 Brother Eye, acting out of vengeance for the murder of Lord, initiated the final protocol Truth and Justice which aims at the elimination of all Amazons. A full-scale invasion of Themyscira is set into motion, utilizing every remaining OMAC. Diana and her countrywomen, now isolated and alienated from the outside world, are fighting for their lives. In Infinite Crisis #3, the Amazons prepare to destroy the OMACs with a powerful new weapon. However, Wonder Woman realizes that Brother Eye is watching and transmitting, and that unleashing such destructive violence would only exacerbate the effects of her killing of Maxwell Lord. After the weapon (the Purple Ray of Death) is used once, Wonder Woman convinces the Amazons to shut it down. She then calls upon Athena, who transports Paradise Island and the Amazons remaining on it to another dimension. However, Wonder Woman chooses not to join them, and is left to face the OMACs alone.

The current Wonder Woman series will be among several which will be cancelled at the conclusion of the Infinite Crisis storyline, specifically as part of the "One Year Later..." event focused around the upcoming weekly series 52. The final issue will be #226, to be released in February 2006 with the relaunch of the series taking place sometime in June 2006. Terry Dodson has recently been comfirmed as the new regular artist for the relaunch.