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stephs_bookshelf's review against another edition
5.0
Awesome read! Even better than the last one! Terrible cliffhanger at the end though, I'm really glad I already own Amazons Attack!
cleheny's review against another edition
1.0
Wow, this is terrible.
In the introduction to her own arc, Picoult says that she wanted to make Diana more "human" and more "relatable" by showing Diana as having doubts about who she wants to be. I'm tired of writers saying the reason Diana isn't as popular as Batman and Superman is because she's not human/relatable. It's because comics were historically written for, and consumed by, men, and gender prejudices, stereotypes, and norms forced female characters into certain roles/formulas (yes, I know Marston's Diana challenged those norms/stereotypes, but Diana's portrayal changed after he stopped writing her). Perez's post-Crisis Diana reinvigorated her character, but she had a lot of ground to make up for, along with a character history and rogue's gallery that was never as developed as Batman's and Superman's. Readers found Perez's and Rucka's Diana relatable. She didn't need to be portrayed as totally lacking any understanding of personal finance in the worlds in which she's lived for many years (e.g., only carrying $10 and not knowing what a credit card is--seriously, are you kidding me?) in order for readers to care for her.
So Diana comes off as a clueless fish out of water in her civilian disguise. The narration in her voice is also quite repetitive and uninteresting. After Sarge Steel tasks her with bringing in WW, Diana repeatedly asks herself how she can capture herself. Yeah, we get it because we already know they are one and the same; we don't need to have Diana keep asking herself how she's going to pull it off (without any actual effort to come up with a plan to accomplish this assignment).
And then Picoult starts the Amazons Attack! storyline, which has a reputation for being terrible. I haven't read it (that's next on the reading list), but, based on what Picoult did, I expect I'm going to suffer through it. It doesn't surprise me that Circe does her best to betray everyone in pursuit of her ultimate goal, but it is stunning that the Amazons just blindly accept everything she does. She shows up on Themiscyra, uninvited, resurrects Hippolyta, shows one image of Diana in a cell and tells the Amazons that the humans are trying to destroy her, and everyone goes along with it. Don't these Amazons remember anything about Circe? And why are they so eager to follow the resurrected-one-minute-ago Hippolyta, who surrendered her throne to end a civil war caused by her own neglect, and has purple energy shooting out from her eyes? Shouldn't that be a dead give-away that something's off about her?
Finally, I'm annoyed that Picoult did what Heinberg (strongly) hinted at--that Diana now thinks she was wrong to kill Maxwell Lord. Sure, Diana can come to believe that (though it would have been a more interesting choice if Diana didn't), but it should come after she's been given good reasons (other than she's no longer popular) to get there. Instead, she tells her mother that, "Once before, I took a single life to save millions. I convinced myself it was the right thing to do. But even one life is too many." So does she regret killing Medusa? How about Deimos? How about Decay? She killed all of them, too, in order to save billions. Why didn't anyone condemn her for those killings? Those were lives--just not human ones.
In the introduction to her own arc, Picoult says that she wanted to make Diana more "human" and more "relatable" by showing Diana as having doubts about who she wants to be. I'm tired of writers saying the reason Diana isn't as popular as Batman and Superman is because she's not human/relatable. It's because comics were historically written for, and consumed by, men, and gender prejudices, stereotypes, and norms forced female characters into certain roles/formulas (yes, I know Marston's Diana challenged those norms/stereotypes, but Diana's portrayal changed after he stopped writing her). Perez's post-Crisis Diana reinvigorated her character, but she had a lot of ground to make up for, along with a character history and rogue's gallery that was never as developed as Batman's and Superman's. Readers found Perez's and Rucka's Diana relatable. She didn't need to be portrayed as totally lacking any understanding of personal finance in the worlds in which she's lived for many years (e.g., only carrying $10 and not knowing what a credit card is--seriously, are you kidding me?) in order for readers to care for her.
So Diana comes off as a clueless fish out of water in her civilian disguise. The narration in her voice is also quite repetitive and uninteresting. After Sarge Steel tasks her with bringing in WW, Diana repeatedly asks herself how she can capture herself. Yeah, we get it because we already know they are one and the same; we don't need to have Diana keep asking herself how she's going to pull it off (without any actual effort to come up with a plan to accomplish this assignment).
And then Picoult starts the Amazons Attack! storyline, which has a reputation for being terrible. I haven't read it (that's next on the reading list), but, based on what Picoult did, I expect I'm going to suffer through it. It doesn't surprise me that Circe does her best to betray everyone in pursuit of her ultimate goal, but it is stunning that the Amazons just blindly accept everything she does. She shows up on Themiscyra, uninvited, resurrects Hippolyta, shows one image of Diana in a cell and tells the Amazons that the humans are trying to destroy her, and everyone goes along with it. Don't these Amazons remember anything about Circe? And why are they so eager to follow the resurrected-one-minute-ago Hippolyta, who surrendered her throne to end a civil war caused by her own neglect, and has purple energy shooting out from her eyes? Shouldn't that be a dead give-away that something's off about her?
Finally, I'm annoyed that Picoult did what Heinberg (strongly) hinted at--that Diana now thinks she was wrong to kill Maxwell Lord. Sure, Diana can come to believe that (though it would have been a more interesting choice if Diana didn't), but it should come after she's been given good reasons (other than she's no longer popular) to get there. Instead, she tells her mother that, "Once before, I took a single life to save millions. I convinced myself it was the right thing to do. But even one life is too many." So does she regret killing Medusa? How about Deimos? How about Decay? She killed all of them, too, in order to save billions. Why didn't anyone condemn her for those killings? Those were lives--just not human ones.
terrylw's review against another edition
3.0
The art in this book is great. My rating is based more on the fact that I don't read JLA graphic novels so I feel like I picked up the book in the middle of a series and don't know what's going it.
carry_on_ames's review against another edition
4.0
Like many others, I recently saw the Wonder Woman movie in theaters and I immediately fell in love with the world. I fell in love with the characters, the story, the premise, and so much more. I became obsessed and found myself eager to read one of the many comics of the Wonder Woman franchise.
This is my first Wonder Woman comic, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I did enjoy the comic overall. I thought the drawings were well done and I loved the exploration of Diana (Wonder Woman) as a person with flaws and self doubt and all of the other awkward things we all go through but don't want to talk about because it isn't "cool." It was quick, fun, easy read and I thought it was a good introduction to the characters and world.
This is my first Wonder Woman comic, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I did enjoy the comic overall. I thought the drawings were well done and I loved the exploration of Diana (Wonder Woman) as a person with flaws and self doubt and all of the other awkward things we all go through but don't want to talk about because it isn't "cool." It was quick, fun, easy read and I thought it was a good introduction to the characters and world.
chrissaay's review against another edition
3.0
Meh. Big fan of Jodi Picoult. This is not her forte. 3 stars because the illustrations are stunning.
emelymacintosh's review against another edition
5.0
Wonder Woman has to fight her own mother, after Circe brings her back to life, in order to save Washington D.C.
bobarisu's review against another edition
3.0
The art is nice, but I have a hard time believing that's actually Hippolyta.
mhall89446's review against another edition
3.0
Given that this is one of the "thin", non-omnibus collections, the story line is a bit choppy--a plot has developed (which you only get sketchy details on) and the volume ends with cliff-hangers. On a real plus side, artwork by the Dodsons!
mscoutj's review against another edition
2.0
Well, I've never read either Wonder Woman serials or Jodi Picoult, so i figured what the heck. Now its more like wtf? Interesting story, but even I could tellit was by someone who doesn't normally write in thegenre. Not a waste of time, but not something I'll go back and read again either...