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unladylike's review
2.0
Bummer, Gail. I really hoped your hand at Wonder Woman would impress me far more than all the dudes who've written her. Instead you've got the Amazon Princess getting made-over by her gurrlfriennd, trying her hand at showbiz-in-disguise, and sooo much talking about boys. Considering the main setting is an island of women warriors, I can't believe how close you came to failing the Bechdel Test.
Ok, this book probably maybe deserves more like 3 stars, but I read it not after reading the previous volumes written by Gail Simone, which would have made more sense, but rather after reading the first three volumes of WW by Brian Azzarello. Much to my disappointment, Azzarello did a MUCH better job. So much so that his respinning of the quasi-Greek mythos is strongly affecting my perception of a story that came out a few years earlier, with a different canon.
It's ok. I'll still enjoy Simone's Batgirl until she gets fired from that again, and I'll go back and read all of her WW run at some point when the badAzz's version isn't so fresh in my head.
Ok, this book probably maybe deserves more like 3 stars, but I read it not after reading the previous volumes written by Gail Simone, which would have made more sense, but rather after reading the first three volumes of WW by Brian Azzarello. Much to my disappointment, Azzarello did a MUCH better job. So much so that his respinning of the quasi-Greek mythos is strongly affecting my perception of a story that came out a few years earlier, with a different canon.
It's ok. I'll still enjoy Simone's Batgirl until she gets fired from that again, and I'll go back and read all of her WW run at some point when the badAzz's version isn't so fresh in my head.
onceandfuturelaura's review
3.0
. . . so the mighty Achilles, the man who fell in love with the corpse of Penthesilea on the battlefields of windy Troy and, at least in some translations, ravished her corpse, is resurrected as 1. the Warkiller and 2. the King of the Amazons? That's . . . staggering. Someone has mighty Thatchers.
Really liked the bit where Diana and Giganta have girl talk.
Really liked the bit where Diana and Giganta have girl talk.
nicolet2018's review
3.0
I picked this up after reading Ends of the Earth volume 4 and I read volume 5 yers ago. I roughly knew what happened but it was still confusing. Bottom line is that Ares is still the villain behind most of the problems happening in the storyline. Is he ever not? and throw in classic Wonder Woman villains like Doctor Psycho and Giganta. Diana is confused and not herself. Generally the plot was not very clear and I am quite tired of Tom and Diana. I found it hard to connect with the way Black Canary is like in the first part of the volume as I am used to the way she is portrayed by Katie Cassidy and Juliana Harkavy. I think overall comics should not be read on ebook.
rubybastille's review
4.0
It's my understanding that this was a...shall we say, rough patch in the WW canon, with men taking over Themyscira, Amazons rebelling, etc etc. I had read The Circle but not the volume preceding this, and while I recognized some characters and some plot threads resolved, a lot of this (Genocide, Dr Psycho body switching, being on the rocks with Tom, WW having bracelet power from Zeus) was unfamiliar to me. But I enjoy the heck out of Gail Simone's voice when writing WW (and Black Canary - the first storyline with the two of them busting a meta human fight ring is delicious fanservice) which is enough to make me glad I have this on my shelf.
taraswiger's review
4.0
Such a satisfying story arc in this series (definitely start with Volume 1!)
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