A review by wyntrchylde
Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour by James Tynion IV

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour

Author: James Tynion IV, Jesus Merino, Emanuela Lupacchino, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, Fernando Blanco, Miguel Mendonca, et al.

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REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

Why this book:

Cause it was there and the cover drew me in. 

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Least Favorite Character:

Zatanna playing the self-doubt and more self-doubt alongside being the Doubting Thomas relating to Wonder Woman acting while the others aren’t. If everyone just sat on the sidelines, or retreated to rethink, Hecate would have destroyed Nanda Parbat and the Parliament of Trees before any of them could react. 

Plot Holes/Out of Character:

So did the other two aspects of the triple-faced goddess commit suicide by turning on their sister and helping to stop her in the way that she was stopped? Or are they still out there? Or are they connected to Diana now in a patron-ish connection since this suggests that Olympus and the Olympians are gone, again. They do seem to abandon and disappear from Diana repeatedly only to resurface later on. 

Favorite Concept:

I did like that the writer put the Nightmaster’s sword back in Detective Chimp’s hand.

Uhm Moments: 

Hecate turning on the “baby” witches doesn’t really wash. How much power could they really have? She’s after the bigger fish in the magical DCU. The “baby” witches are very much small fry in that ocean. 

A Path I Can’t Follow:

I don’t like how, in most of these events, otherwise competent and powerful characters are written as helpless foils so that the protagonist of the specific crisis can save the day. 

Anachronism:

I get why they do it. But I wish they wouldn’t always show Vandal Savage, the immortal caveman, mystical meteor enhanced to live forever, conqueror, murderer, evil, when they do their dawn of time/history of man splash pages. Even unnamed, it is obviously him. He’s always the caveman with dark, black, lustrous hair, looking like he visits the beauty shop every week…the beauty shop that shouldn’t exist for another 2 and a half million years. 

Forgotten Lesson/Forgotten Common Sense:

After all of the rehabilitation effort to make the Ted Kord Blue Beetle a more solid character to have him thrown back on the comedy relief pile is hard to read. 

Predictability/Non-Predictability: 

I usually dislike the “post-credits” scene where you get the foreshadowing of future threats, but these were well done in a “fight this battle, so that, at least, you and the world are still here to fight the next one.”

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Last Page Sound:

Not the ending I expected out of the one, but definitely the one I expected out of the other.  

Things I’d Like to See:

Hope the Ghost of Witchfire reappears. But too often, especially in DC Comics, characters that have potential blip and disappear into limbo. 

Things I'd Like To Unsee:

The Upside-Down Man is creepy AF.