Wonder Woman

The observant among you will have noticed that there was no Weekly Wonder Woman last week. That wasn’t because our Wondy wasn’t in any comics – quite the contrary, in fact – but simply because of the time I had available, I had to choose between WWW and WHYBW, and tele won. Sorry, Di.

I didn’t get any complaint letters, though. I don’t know why. I’m assuming it’s because you were too busy crying to be able to put fingers to keyboard.

Don’t worry, though. Brush those tears away. WWW is back. And given that there was only one new issue with Diana in last week, it’s not exactly a Herculean task to do two weeks in one go.

So after the jump, we’ll be looking at the latest issues of the Big Four: Wonder Woman, Superman-Wonder Woman, Justice League and Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman. Only one of them has a bad joke from an old episode of Doctor Who in it.

Still no Diana in DC Bombshells again, though. This is tantamount to false advertising, now.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman #45, Superman-Wonder Woman #22, Justice League #45, Sensation Comics #50-51”

Last week, Diana, Queen of the Amazons, made a lot of appearances on the covers of comics, but didn’t actually show up inside many of them. She was on the cover of Justice League of America #4, fighting some alien priests with Aquaman. 

But did she turn up inside to fight some alien priests with Aquaman? Not at all. And as for Aquaman, he was watching tele with Mera instead.

Talk about misadvertising. 

Meanwhile, over on the cover of DC Bombshells, Diana was ready for action with her lightning-equipped, Volume 3, Gail Simone bracelets.

Was she inside using them? Nope. It was just Batwoman and Italian Catwoman flirting with each other in 1940s Berlin at a party of demon-worshipping Nazis. Alternative universe Dullsville that.

For a bit of contrast, while she wasn’t on the cover of the first issue of limited series nu52/alternative reality Convergence spectacular Superman: Lois & Clark, she was certainly inside. Unfortunately, it was part of yet another flashback to that first Justice League storyline involving Darkseid, so that author Dan Jurgens could make the point that the nu52 universe was a bit gloomy compared to the pre-Flashpoint one.

 

Reasurringly, despite those mere glimpses, we had a couple of proper appearances, too. The first was in the final return of Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, which has been cancelled due to a bit of (alleged) internal politics at DC. In its place is coming a prequel series, The Legend of Wonder Woman, starting in January. Prequel to what, you might ask? Well, it’s definitely a young woman on Themyscira and the story of how she ended up coming to Man’s World. But is it a prequel to the nu52/DCYou Wonder Woman’s arrival or is it a prequel to Batman V Superman, due out in March?

Dunno, but I’m sure time will tell.

Until then, we do have a few more Sensation Comics to enjoy. The first sees the return of an old enemy. Can you guess who?

It’s Cheetah. It’s always Cheetah. What’s the matter with you? How was that not your first guess?

Anyway, in this alternative reality, maybe Cheetah isn’t as bad as everyone thought. You can find out more about that after the jump.

Also after the jump is the final installment of Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four. Last issue, Zeus was facing off against Highfather in a battle for supremacy among gods for planet Earth. Can you imagine how exciting it’s all going to be and how central Diana will be to the plot?

Well, no. They’ve only gone and Twilighted us.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: Sensation Comics #49, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four #24”

Assuming you’re not all too busy watching the first two episodes of DC’s new cartoon series for girls, DC SuperHero Girls, which feature a young Wonder Woman on some kind of exchange trip to Superhero High in the US, shall we mosey on over the jump to look at last week’s comics featuring Wonder Woman? 

DC Bombshells found Second World War Wonder Woman getting a new uniform and facing off against both Nazis and Allied Forces, while 1977 Wonder Woman has to deal with a familiar member of the walking dead over in Wonder Woman ’77.

Meanwhile, over in Detective Comics #45, DCYou Wonder Woman is testing both old and new Batmans (or should that be Batmen?) and in Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four #23, weedy Wonder Woman is saving the world from nuclear missiles. I do hope that means we’re not going to get Superman IV next issue.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: DC Bombshells #12, Wonder Woman ’77 #13, Detective Comics #45, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 4 #22”

Assuming you all aren’t too busy studying your statue of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for potential plot clues, it’s time for our weekly round-up of the Amazon princessqueen’s latest appearances in DC comics.

Surprisingly, last week’s theme was radioactivity. First, we had the culmination of Celsia 451 in Wonder Woman ’77, which gave us the eponymous villainess’s nuclear-fuelled origin. Meanwhile, over in the continuation of the Darkseid War in Justice League #44, Superman took some bad radiation and went all bad. Lastly, somewhere over the gods’s new home on Paradise Island in Injustice: Gods Among Us, the missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman ’77 #12, Justice League #44, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 4 #21”

Do immortal gods plan for their own deaths? It’s an interesting philosophical concept, one that oddly enough last week’s Deathstroke decided to investigate.

Meanwhile, the punchy, kicky Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four naturally decided to ask that eternal question: “If you were a god and could destroy any other religions, which ones would you go for?”

Wonder Woman ’77? It just wanted to bring back some old comics characters, from just like in the good old days.

I’ll be talking about all of these after the jump, in Weekly Wonder Wonder. That’s next on TMINE.

Continue reading “Weekly Wonder Woman: Deathstroke #10, Wonder Woman ’77 #11, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year 4 #21”