Weekly Wonder Woman

This month in Superman/Wonder Woman, it’s a surprisingly early crux point for that usual relationship milestone: the boyfriend’s meeting with the girlfriend’s family. Although Supes has already had fun with Wondy’s nephew, Eros, over in Young Romance, with Wondy apparently needing some new weapons to deal with Doomsday, it’s time for him to meet her brother Hephaestus, weaponsmith for the gods. Except brother Apollo and sister Strife have decided they’re not that sure about Wondy’s new beau and get a bit snooty.

Also this week, we’ll be having a look at the conclusion to Smallville’s ‘Olympus’ arc, as well as a brief glance at Forever Evil #2 and Justice League of America #9. See you after the jump.

Continue reading “Review: Superman/Wonder Woman #2, Smallville #69”

Not much by way of new canonical Wonder Woman last week. However, in alternative universes, there was another issue of Smallville: Season 11. Since this is a Super-strip, despite Supes and Wondy facing off against the god Hades himself – gods being Wondy’s forte – it was Supes who saved the day, demonstrating to Wondy why killing is always, always wrong… except at the end of major blockbuster movies, of course.

It has to be said, though, that as a god, this Hades was a bit rubbish, given that his response to being grabbed by Superman and flown into space wasn’t to kill him on the spot or turn him into an ant, but to grin and bear it. Oh well, at least Wondy and Steve were reunited at the end, which was quite cute. 

Next week, we find out what happens now Washington DC has been turned all rubbly.

The other alternative universe on display is in DC Universe vs Masters of the Universe, which sees the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe universe crossing over with the DC Universe. What a lot of universes.

It’s all been a bit weird so far, with everyone magical in both universes having heard of each other already but as legends. Apparently, John Constantine is pretty much a killing word over in Eternia. Blimey. And I remember him when he was having problems with a simple demon in Newcastle…

Anyway, it’s also been a bit biased towards the MotU side of things, with much of the two issues published devoted to Adam’s mum (who came from Earth originally, as readers of the MotU TV series writers’ bible will recall. Yes, I have read it. Sorry).

It has to be said, the DC characterisation is pretty weak. Superman stonked all over the place by Skeletor and the Justice League only looks a bit wide-eyed? Hmm.

The entire Justice League bewitched by Skeletor?

And then, of course, Superman gets killed by He-Man. I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more…

On the whole, it’s not great, particularly on the DC side, so probably one more for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe fans. However, I’m not sure that it’s actually going to please anyone.

Well, after a bit of a summer vacation, we’re back on the Wonder Womans, looking to review all the DC comics in which our heroine appears. We’re going to be on a slightly different schedule from before, trying to review them as they appear, rather than saving them up. Fingers crossed, I might stand a chance of keeping up this time.

This week, though, I’m not sure it’s going to make much of a difference since we’ve seen the continuation of the Forever Evil/Trinity War storylines in Justice League America #8, which reveals what’s happened to Wondy and the rest of the Justice League. Over in Batman-Superman #3, we finish a brief trip over to Earth 2 to see alternative universe, soon-to-be-deceased Wonder Woman. And Smallville #67 – aka Smallville: Season 11 – continues the introduction of young Wonder Woman and her world to that particular TV/comics universe.

Phew.

I’ll touch on all of those after the jump, but the main review is going to be of Wonder Woman #24, which picks up from the conclusion of the First Born storyline, in which Diana actually managed to kill Ares, the god of war, and as a result, was forced to take up his mantle and become Diana, goddess of war.

Or was she? It looks more like she’s off house-hunting in London. More of that and some spoilers after the jump.

Continue reading “Review: Wonder Woman #24/JLA #8/Batman-Superman #3”

So after a dormant period of a few months – long enough to dodge the crappy and pointless Trinity War, anyway, if not to quite miss the end of Forever Evil – I think it’s time to revive the Wonder Woman reviews. Rather than save them up and do them all in one go, though, I think it’ll probably make more sense and give me a higher chance of succeeding if I review each comic as it comes out. 

Appropriately enough, for my first new review, it’s Superman/Wonder Woman #1, which horrifyingly enough is only the first new second title for Wonder Woman in 61 years. As you may have noticed, though, she has second billing in this to Superman, because to mirror the successful bromance of Superman/Batman, we have here what DC hopes will be the successful romance of Superman and Wonder Woman.

Indeed, one of the most controversial aspects of the DC’s nu52 has been the jettisoning of the Lois Lane-Clark Kent-Superman triangle of days gone by and the Steve Trevor-Diane Prince-Wonder Woman triangle of even farther off days gone by in favour of this new pairing, hinted at in pre-nu52 issues, fulfilled in alternative continuities but never official canon in DC’s main lines. Until now.

Now, following brief flirtations with the relationship by writers in Superman, Justice League and more bizarrely Young Romance (but notably, thanks to Brian Azzarello, not in Wonder Woman), we finally have a title that’s dedicated to it. Hooray!

One question is: will it be a success? An even better question is: will it make for a good comic. Let’s answer that question after the jump. Beware of epic spoilers ahead (sorry).

Continue reading “Review: Superman/Wonder Woman #1”

So normally, around this time, I’d review the latest DC comics that feature Wonder Woman. These usually include Wonder Woman and Justice League, and what with the new super-romance, Superman, as well as various other miscellaneous titles.

Now, reviewing them takes up much more time than it used to and with DC’s schedule all over the place, trying to recap them all each month has become harder and harder, particularly since my own work schedule has been all over the place and incompatible with DC’s.

More than that, my heart’s not really in it. The comics are largely fine (although problematic at times, particularly Injustice: Gods Among Us), but I’m just not loving them anymore and some egregious things have been done since the start of the new 52. So I’ve decided today that I’m going to stop reviewing them. I’ll keep reading them, though, and I might return at some point to reviewing them, since the web stats say this is actually one of the most popular features of the blog.

So let me know if you’d like me to continue, let me know below and if enough people ask, I’ll get back to reviewing them. If no one’s interested, then TTFN WW.

Ta,

Rob