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A review by xsleepyshadows
Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
2.0
On the surface this book is fun but when you look a bit deeper I got a couple of problems.
The things I liked... 1) I liked that is was more modern! It's kinda refreshing I know Wonder Woman has traditional been in WW2 so I really like the feeling of her arriving at a more modern age which honestly makes more sense to me. 2) I really like that Wonder Woman has a female champion lover. I like to think WW is at least Bi so this change was really welcome. The only complaint is that they did ever interact with each other, like if it was not mentioned specifically I would have never known. 3) Amazons have modern/future type tech.! I like this a lot because of course there are female scientists that will continue to improve life on Paradise Island. 4) I actually really like the geek life sorority girls meeting up and partying and dragging WW around. Wish there was more fun scenes with them though.
Things I didn't like really really stood out and over powered everything I did like... 1) All the body shaming. WW would defiantly not body shame the other women, this is entirely out of character and really disrespectful. Generally, it seems like they have no idea of how to write women through-out the comic. 2) Amazon's use a lot of bondage? This idea is weird...because it's basically done to sexualize the amazons but the worst part is WW tries to give Steve Trevor (Who's black in this story) a collar. This is a really really badly made slavery joke. 3) They fail at making diversity. I like that Steve Trevor is Black but they fail to give him lines. He didn't even feel like a character It just feels like he was there to make a disgusting slavery joke and then use slavery as a plot point later when he is on trail about why he would protect the amazons. And shouldn't there be more colored amazons because I only counted one. If you're going to add diversity, it needs to be done respectfully and actually add them! ~Ashley
The things I liked... 1) I liked that is was more modern! It's kinda refreshing I know Wonder Woman has traditional been in WW2 so I really like the feeling of her arriving at a more modern age which honestly makes more sense to me. 2) I really like that Wonder Woman has a female champion lover. I like to think WW is at least Bi so this change was really welcome. The only complaint is that they did ever interact with each other, like if it was not mentioned specifically I would have never known. 3) Amazons have modern/future type tech.! I like this a lot because of course there are female scientists that will continue to improve life on Paradise Island. 4) I actually really like the geek life sorority girls meeting up and partying and dragging WW around. Wish there was more fun scenes with them though.
Things I didn't like really really stood out and over powered everything I did like... 1) All the body shaming. WW would defiantly not body shame the other women, this is entirely out of character and really disrespectful. Generally, it seems like they have no idea of how to write women through-out the comic. 2) Amazon's use a lot of bondage? This idea is weird...because it's basically done to sexualize the amazons but the worst part is WW tries to give Steve Trevor (Who's black in this story) a collar. This is a really really badly made slavery joke. 3) They fail at making diversity. I like that Steve Trevor is Black but they fail to give him lines. He didn't even feel like a character It just feels like he was there to make a disgusting slavery joke and then use slavery as a plot point later when he is on trail about why he would protect the amazons. And shouldn't there be more colored amazons because I only counted one. If you're going to add diversity, it needs to be done respectfully and actually add them! ~Ashley