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rainbowrocky's review against another edition
1.0
DNFed halfway through. The worst thing I’ve read this year by far. Any personality and character this story might have had was cut out, for some reason. For a Wonder Woman title, it has surprisingly little actual Wonder Woman. I skim read to the end and the only remotely interesting thing that happens here is the very last page.
celtfem's review against another edition
1.0
Uninspired, disjointed, and so full of trope, you could make trope sandwiches for a month.
cgwinters1981's review against another edition
3.0
The biggest flaw of this graphic novel collection is that it becomes very apparent that you are missing part of the story by not reading whatever tie-ins DC made along with this event. It appears many of these could have occurred within certain titles published at the time (i.e. teen titans, wonder woman, and supergirl seem like the obvious choices based on content). This lack of a full story makes for uneven reading and takes away some of the overall enjoyment of reading a Wonder Woman event. There have been few events centered around this particular character and her world, so it is sad that this was one of them. It also sucked that one of the characters we should have seen, Donna Troy, is swept off and we are not told what we should read to understand what was going on with her story. She just seems to disappear. It was overall a frustrating read, but rooted in what could have been an amazing storyline. It just is very poorly executed.
azn_trang's review against another edition
4.0
More of a 3.5 really. It started off so well but the ending was a total cop-out.
livani's review against another edition
3.0
Slow moving, and at times confusing. Diana seemed off, and Cassie and Kara both seemed like entirely different characters. Seemed to focus more on the Justice League than Diana and the Amazons. Not one of my favorite Wonder Woman stories.
gabyk_lib's review against another edition
1.0
I rarely give poor reviews because mostly I don't think things are so bad but frankly this is that bad. It is a bind up but the story is all over the shop. Incoherent, disjointed and lacking shape. But the worst of it is it makes no sense. Hippolyta might be enspelled but her warriors aren't and they should be asking questions about actions so out of character and would not just indulge in slaughter of noncombatants so lightly, specially Phillipus. Diana herself is also not making decisions that are in character. Trying to kill not stop her enspelled mother is not what she would do. I get it that comics artificially put characters against each other just for the what if and even make good guys into bad ones but this did not make any sense based on the characters portrayed. Do not recommend. Don't bother.
cleheny's review against another edition
1.0
No, just . . . no.
I don't believe I've read anything else by Will Pfeiffer, so I can't speak to who he is as a writer or a person, but, man, this reads like he hates strong women (I'm not saying that he does--just that this reads like that). Let's just start with the first four pages (which include a 2-page splash of the Amazon army): in about 13 individual panels, 2 Amazon soldiers kill a father and young (maybe 10?) boy at the Lincoln Memorial, for just being there. So, a nation of women that for dozens of years was the example of balancing the tension of being warriors who believe in peaceful coexistence become brutal killers in the first pages of story.
This cross-over butchers almost every established female character who has a line in this book. Hippolyta is a bloodthirsty and cruel leader who has no real motivation for her unprovoked aggression against everyone (burning Kansas, attacking West Coast military installations, murdering tourists). Phillipus and Artemis--who led the Amazons after Hippolyta's abdication--are reduced to "generals" whose purpose is to speak reverently of the Hippolyta they used to know, wonder about the one they're dealing with, bemoan what's happening, and do nothing. Cassie and Supergirl attempt to kidnap the president for reasons that are never explained (aside from a vague "you and Hippolyta need to talk," because Hippolyta has shown how willing she is to talk and not, say, slaughter half of the U.S.), and seem surprised when that doesn't work out so well. Fortunately, Superman is there to fix their screwup. Grace Choi, whose been fighting Amazons in order to defend ordinary citizens, is willing to join up with "the Bana," an Amazon sect who is using technology to kill tons of people, because they tell her she's family. So principles be damned!
And that's the most offensive thing about this crossover. Women screw everything up, and the men are primarily the ones to fix it: Batman, developing strategy and appearing to have a better handle on things than WW; Superman cleaning up Cassie and Kara's mess, and talking sense to the Amazons; Green Arrow making sure there isn't a nuclear disaster, etc.
As others have also noted, the editing in this is a mess. Tons of stuff happens outside of the main story arc, and then there's a couple of paragraphs of "oh, this major event happened," and we're back to our increasingly incoherent story.
I read this for the sake of completeness (as I've been reading every other published post-Crisis WW story to the end of the new 52). From everything I'd read, I knew I wouldn't like it. But, really, I had no appreciation for how much I'd hate it. This is terribly bad, and the fact that it vilifies every major supporting female in WW's cast just makes it even more horrific.
I don't believe I've read anything else by Will Pfeiffer, so I can't speak to who he is as a writer or a person, but, man, this reads like he hates strong women (I'm not saying that he does--just that this reads like that). Let's just start with the first four pages (which include a 2-page splash of the Amazon army): in about 13 individual panels, 2 Amazon soldiers kill a father and young (maybe 10?) boy at the Lincoln Memorial, for just being there. So, a nation of women that for dozens of years was the example of balancing the tension of being warriors who believe in peaceful coexistence become brutal killers in the first pages of story.
This cross-over butchers almost every established female character who has a line in this book. Hippolyta is a bloodthirsty and cruel leader who has no real motivation for her unprovoked aggression against everyone (burning Kansas, attacking West Coast military installations, murdering tourists). Phillipus and Artemis--who led the Amazons after Hippolyta's abdication--are reduced to "generals" whose purpose is to speak reverently of the Hippolyta they used to know, wonder about the one they're dealing with, bemoan what's happening, and do nothing. Cassie and Supergirl attempt to kidnap the president for reasons that are never explained (aside from a vague "you and Hippolyta need to talk," because Hippolyta has shown how willing she is to talk and not, say, slaughter half of the U.S.), and seem surprised when that doesn't work out so well. Fortunately, Superman is there to fix their screwup. Grace Choi, whose been fighting Amazons in order to defend ordinary citizens, is willing to join up with "the Bana," an Amazon sect who is using technology to kill tons of people, because they tell her she's family. So principles be damned!
And that's the most offensive thing about this crossover. Women screw everything up, and the men are primarily the ones to fix it: Batman, developing strategy and appearing to have a better handle on things than WW; Superman cleaning up Cassie and Kara's mess, and talking sense to the Amazons; Green Arrow making sure there isn't a nuclear disaster, etc.
As others have also noted, the editing in this is a mess. Tons of stuff happens outside of the main story arc, and then there's a couple of paragraphs of "oh, this major event happened," and we're back to our increasingly incoherent story.
I read this for the sake of completeness (as I've been reading every other published post-Crisis WW story to the end of the new 52). From everything I'd read, I knew I wouldn't like it. But, really, I had no appreciation for how much I'd hate it. This is terribly bad, and the fact that it vilifies every major supporting female in WW's cast just makes it even more horrific.