Following on from last week’s quiet week, we have another quiet week for Diana, with just the current usual suspects offering us any appearances by the Amazon princess: Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three and Sensation Comics. This week, more punching and a teenage Wonder Woman gets involved in a dance-off. See if you can guess which is which.
Last catch-up week this week, with two doublers to deal with, both Wonder Woman and Justice League having had Christmas-fortnight issues that I missed out on reviewing. So after the jump we’ll first be looking at the return of a very old and important character to the Wonder Woman and probably even DC universe, as well as Superman’s immune system.
Also after the jump are the concluding part of the first Wonder Woman ’77 story, in which Wonder Woman has to deal with another old enemy, and Injustice: Gods Among – Year Three gives us a battle between Wonder Woman and a super-powered Batwoman. I wonder who’ll win that one?
Lots to do today in the first Friday Weekly Wonder Woman, with not only this week’s new releases to deal with, but also playing catch up on the ones I missed reviewing over Christmas. All this despite there already having been a WWW this week already – it truly is a golden age, if not the actual Golden Age.
So after the jump, a look at Superman/Wonder Woman issues 14 and 15, which have some exciting revelations and returning arch enemies, another Injustice involving Diana punching Sinestro a lot, the second Wonder Woman ’77 continues the action down the disco and three whole issues of Sensation Comics look at everything from Wonder Woman’s inspiration of female soldiers through to people Instagramming her backside.
And, oh yes, there was another Justice League movie released this week in the US. Guess who’s in that, too?
Time to move. New Year has brought many digital wonders with it, not the least of which is a shiny new Wonder Woman comic, Wonder Woman ’77, that features the unmistakable visages of Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner in some all-new 1970s-set weekly adventures. I’ll be looking at the first issue of that after the jump and wondering if this is the TV series in comic form or something slightly different.
On top of that, alternative-reality, punching Wonder Woman has just woken up in Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Three and the formerly missing in action Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman has also returned, but in a change of schedule, it’s now out on Tuesdays.
All of which means that Tuesdays and Thursdays – with Wednesdays for Wonder Woman, Superman/Wonder Woman, Justice League and any other comics featuring our heroine – are chockablock with Wonder Woman comics, which makes a Tuesday ‘Weekly Wonder Woman’ look a bit silly. So from this week, WWW is moving to Fridays – in fact, you’ll be getting another one of these this Friday to take in today’s releases (which I haven’t read yet).
How wonderful. Reviews after the jump.
Well, I’m back after the Christmas break and there’s been a whole load of comics released over that time, including Wonder Woman, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman and Superman/Wonder Woman, that I wasn’t able to cover. However, for the sake of my sanity, rather than try to review them all now, I’ll try to do a load of 2-for-1s and review each in combination with its following issue, whenever that happens to be.
That means that this week, I’ve only one comic to cast my glance over, namely Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three. If you recall, this is the alternative DC universe that sees Superman take a strange turn following Lois Lane’s death and try to rid the world of evil by imposing a quasi-fascist regime. In this, he’s supported by some other superheroes, opposed by others. The result? Lots of former friends and enemies kicking and even killing each other in preparation for the ‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’ video game, where lots of former friends and enemies kick and even kill each other.
Over the past few issues of ‘Year Three’, the Injustice alternative universe has taken a slight turn for the odder, since it’s the year the magic-based superheroes step into action. And right now, thanks to John Constantine and an unnamed ally, Superman has fallen into a deep, deep sleep where he’s in an alternative to the alternative universe, in which Lois Lane is still alive and Bruce Wayne has killed the Joker and turned himself him.
This issue, we see how things have evolved after a few decades in Superman’s dream world. He and Lois have a grown-up daughter called Lara; and Bruce Wayne is out of jail and grown a moustache. And Wonder Woman? She’s secretary general of the United Nations and married – you’ll never guess to whom.
Yes, she’s only gone and married Bruce Wayne.
It’s a slightly questionable issue, as per most of Injustice: Gods Among Us, with Superman’s dream world apparently one in which he never commits his own crimes and instead gets his best friend to do it for him and then go to jail. It’s also one where he thinks Batman would be happier with Diana than with Selina Kyle and hasn’t noticed that Wonder Woman (in both the regular Injustice and nu52 universes) would be happier with him. But at least everyone’s happy in it for a change.
Trivia lovers will note that Superman is now wearing his Kingdom Come costume – that’s the future alternative DC universe in which Superman and Wonder Woman end up getting married and having a child, and which is currently being referenced in Superman/Wonder Woman. Is this important? I don’t know.
Those same trivia lovers will also note that while Lara is, of course, Superman’s mum’s name, it was also the name of Superman and Wonder Woman’s daughter in Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. In that series, Lara was keen that Superman take over the world, whereas here, she’s the opposite.
Again, I have no idea if there are deliberate messages here or mere shout-outs, but the issue should please both the Clois and Briana fans, anyway, even if it’s all a dream.
Rating: 3/5
Disclaimer: Owing to the small fortune it would take to buy every single DC comic each week, this is not a guaranteed rundown of all the comics that feature Wonder Woman. If you know of any I’ve missed, email me or leave a comment below and I’ll cover them the following week
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