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A review by nathaniel_1206
Wonder Woman: Ends of the Earth by Gail Simone
2.0
To be honest this rating is on me, and fully admit this rating is completely unfair. However, let me explain.
After seeing the Wonder Woman movie, and being reminded Gail Simone wrote the character, I was led astray by Amazon's bleh search engine, Goodreads hot garbage of a search engine when it comes to collected issues of comic books (trade paperbacks), the Comixology website, and improbably, a local library system search engine even more screwed than Goodreads, which led me to believe this was the first volume of Simone's run on the title. If you can't trust the world's largest bookseller, the largest social media site for readers, and the local library, to get the correct information, when you don't know what you're looking for, things will and inevitably did go wrong. Admittedly my mistake is not realizing three of the four of my references were owned by Amazon, but one of them had to know what the hell they were talking about it, right? Nope.
ETA: Hot Garbage search engine comment proof: If you look up Gail Simone on GR, and sort all her works alphabetically, this volume and previous or subsequent are not even listed in her works. If you sort by series her 2005 run on Birds of Prey isn't even listed. GR's basic issue here is that each series restart (a new #1 issue) in comic book parlance is a volume, plus each collection is a volume. I believe the answer to this is the rule that comic book titles be listed by Title and Year, and that rule be enforced uniformly like last name, first name is enforced. This rule is enforced on other titles X-Men, I believe.
So I was dumped into the middle of a story that was a mishmash of classic literature (Beowolf) and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, that wasn't very good, compelling or frankly made much sense. Upon reading the volume, and knowing what I was looking for, I did subsequent searches and found the proceeding volume was also by Ms Simone, I reserve the right to revise this review.
I am a big fan of Ms. Simone's Twitter, where she is routinely hilarious, and her last run on Batgirl. There is an additional couple of issues that don't take place in an alternate dimension, rather something resembling this dimension, where Ms Simone showed off a little more of her comedy skills, while fun and amusing wasn't amusing or funny enough to save the book for me.
Anyway I press on, and start over.
After seeing the Wonder Woman movie, and being reminded Gail Simone wrote the character, I was led astray by Amazon's bleh search engine, Goodreads hot garbage of a search engine when it comes to collected issues of comic books (trade paperbacks), the Comixology website, and improbably, a local library system search engine even more screwed than Goodreads, which led me to believe this was the first volume of Simone's run on the title. If you can't trust the world's largest bookseller, the largest social media site for readers, and the local library, to get the correct information, when you don't know what you're looking for, things will and inevitably did go wrong. Admittedly my mistake is not realizing three of the four of my references were owned by Amazon, but one of them had to know what the hell they were talking about it, right? Nope.
ETA: Hot Garbage search engine comment proof: If you look up Gail Simone on GR, and sort all her works alphabetically, this volume and previous or subsequent are not even listed in her works. If you sort by series her 2005 run on Birds of Prey isn't even listed. GR's basic issue here is that each series restart (a new #1 issue) in comic book parlance is a volume, plus each collection is a volume. I believe the answer to this is the rule that comic book titles be listed by Title and Year, and that rule be enforced uniformly like last name, first name is enforced. This rule is enforced on other titles X-Men, I believe.
So I was dumped into the middle of a story that was a mishmash of classic literature (Beowolf) and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, that wasn't very good, compelling or frankly made much sense. Upon reading the volume, and knowing what I was looking for, I did subsequent searches and found the proceeding volume was also by Ms Simone, I reserve the right to revise this review.
I am a big fan of Ms. Simone's Twitter, where she is routinely hilarious, and her last run on Batgirl. There is an additional couple of issues that don't take place in an alternate dimension, rather something resembling this dimension, where Ms Simone showed off a little more of her comedy skills, while fun and amusing wasn't amusing or funny enough to save the book for me.
Anyway I press on, and start over.