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A review by unladylike
Wonder Woman: Warkiller by Gail Simone
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.