Weekly Wonder Woman

Well, it’s something of a cracking month for Wonder Woman fans. Not only do we have Cliff Chiang back for a pretty kick ass issue over in her own title (answers as to why there aren’t at least two Wonder Woman comics, one of which is aimed at young girls, on a postcard to DC Comics, please, not me) – the first five out of five I’ve yet awarded the run – we have in the form of the somewhat adolescent Justice League very much a kick ass Wonder Woman issue. Steve Trevor’s in trouble and Wondy’s going to save him, no matter whom she has to go through to get to him, including both Green Lantern and Superman.

Oh yes, they weren’t all dead at the end of last issue. But you probably figured that one out for yourselves.

Continue reading “Review: Wonder Woman #11/Justice League #11”

Justice League slipped a week again, hence the late arrival of the review Wonder Woman review. Sorry – blame DC and Geoff Johns.

Anyway, where last we left Wonder Woman, she was down in the Land of Death, about to be hoist by her own petard – her golden lasso, in fact. What happened next?

Well, I was surprised, that’s what, since rather than what we might all have been expecting based on Brian Azzarello’s writing so far, we instead got an old-school Wonder Woman conclusion to this part of the story. Which is odd.

Meanwhile, back in Justice League #10, we find out that actually, yes, Geoff Johns has been reading Wonder Woman, since we get our first bit of continuity so far. And over in the new, weekly Ame-com – which is a digital-only series based on a series of statues (no, really) – Wonder Woman wears relatively few clothes and swears a bit too much for a title clearly aimed at young girls who like Disney princesses.

Follow me after the jump to find out more.

Continue reading “Review: Wonder Woman #10/Justice League #10/Ame-com #1-3”

Justice League slipped a week again, hence the late arrival of the review Wonder Woman review. Sorry – blame DC and Geoff Johns.

Anyway, where last we left Wonder Woman, she was down in the Land of Death, about to be hoist by her own petard – her golden lasso, in fact. What happened next?

Well, I was surprised, that’s what, since rather than what we might all have been expecting based on Brian Azzarello’s writing so far, we instead got an old-school Wonder Woman conclusion to this part of the story. Which is odd.

Meanwhile, back in Justice League #10, we find out that actually, yes, Geoff Johns has been reading Wonder Woman, since we get our first bit of continuity so far. And over in the new, weekly Ame-com – which is a digital-only series based on a series of statues (no, really) – Wonder Woman wears relatively few clothes and swears a bit too much for a title clearly aimed at young girls who like Disney princesses.

Follow me after the jump to find out more.

Continue reading “Review: Wonder Woman #10/Justice League #10/Ame-com #1-3”

Not wishing to sound too much like the late great Christopher Hitchens, this month’s issues of Wonder Woman and Justice League are all about eros and thanatos – aka (sort of) love and death. Well, Eros is certainly there in Wonder Woman, as is his mother Aphrodite; Thanatos isn’t, but in his place are Hades and his wife (or should that be wife-to-be) Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, over in Justice League, Steve Trevor has taken to drink over the love of a good woman (Wonder Woman, again) and there’s the threat of death, too.

Add to those two themes truth, because people want to know it rather urgently, and eros again in the form of bondage, because a certain golden lasso is going to be important in both titles. And because it’s Wonder Woman.

After the jump then, a brief rundown on each of the issues, plus a discussion of the general devaluation of women that will feature a guest appearance of the new nu52 parallel universe title Earth 2.

Continue reading “Review: Wonder Woman #9/Justice League #9/Earth 2 #1”

It’s here. The cover we’ve all been waiting for is here at last. Isn’t that cool?

But would it surprise you, long-time reader of either these reviews or the new run of Wonder Woman, that events depicted on the cover may not actually occur within the narrative itself? Of course not. In fact, this issue, the exact opposite of what’s shown on the cover happens. To find out what I mean by that and to take a gander at Wondie’s new cossie, follow me after the jump.

We’ll also be discussing the Wonder Woman bits of Justice League #8, in which finally, you will believe a (Wonder) woman can fly. At last.

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