Really enjoyed this take on Wonder Woman. And the art was pretty amazing...

No

I'm giving it 1 star because there's no lower rating. Hippolyta and Diana are made out to be twisted, self-loathing, cheap versions of classic characters. Add in body-shaming, rape culture, and feminism defined as bondage, and you have a warped view of how strong, fiercely independent women should be portrayed. This is nothing close to any version of Wonder Woman -- more like a ploy to add Earth One Wonder Woman to the perverted fantasies already covered in fanfics.

I thought I should give a DC superhero a try. Wonder Woman seemed a good way to start. The writing feels a wee stilted...and the art seems a little...much. Themes are okay, but overall probably won’t read on.

2.5*
Achei a arte fantástica, sem dúvida o ponto forte desta graphic novel, mas não posso concordar com algumas das mensagens que são passadas. Poderia ser desculpável se esta graphic novel fosse antiga, de outra época, mas foi publicada em 2016! E acredito que não coincidem com os seus ideais...

Okay so the graphics in this were amazing. The detail. The color. So freaking amazing. I love it. Also I had no idea what kind of universe I was getting into when I grabbed this. I saw it online and saw that it was newer so I thought I would grab it at the local bookstore. It was a wild ride I was not ready for but it was kinda fun to see. Insanely provocative. So many innuendoes. I was trying to keep up but it was fun to see this story in a different light. I love all the different universes and stories.

I'm super torn about this one. Great lines ("Amazonia has class bitches too, huh?"), pretty well written (I loved Beth Candy even though she was only there for a hot second), but...if a hundred amazons made a female utopia, that is not what they'd be wearing. I also hated that the women were drawn as Paquette wanted them in that moment-we didn't see a muscular Diana the whole book, we saw a muscular Diana when they said eh ok this fits. A lot of it was fun but a lot of it was also a male fantasy projection...and I feel very weird about that. Wonder woman could so easily be *the* badass female superhero; instead, even in Amazonia, she suffers under the male gaze.

I expected a whole lot more from this comic than what I received. I don't know if it was because I was still on the Wonder Woman movie high and wanted more of Gal Gadot and that entire story line, but this is not what I had in mind.

This comic follows the general idea of the Wonder Woman movie, but has a couple differences.

I didn't mind having the story line differ, but this comic's biggest downfall for me was that it seemed so rushed.

The story went back and forth between the past and the present, and it just didn't work that well.

Also, the mother daughter relationship wasn't as loving as I wanted it to be and I was disappointed to see how unforgiving and separated the women on Paradise Island really were.

I'm hesitant to continue this comic series, only because I don't know if the next volume will be worth buying. I don't know if I should give up on the Wonder Woman comics altogether, or just give up on the Earth One series and try a different series...

Thoughts?!

This was BAD!!
oh.....the story line was such a mess. I didn't enjoy at all reading it.

This is a very difficult review to write, mostly because on the surface, I generally enjoyed the book and loved the art - however - I have some pretty major problems with it too.

First off, there seems to be a huge focus on body shaming. Female characters who don't look like Amazons are constantly remarked upon, and this made me very uncomfortable. Secondly, I couldn't help but think that the depiction of Paradise Island is what Grant Morrison thinks a female-only utopia would be like. And I think Grant Morrison has a very skewed idea about women.

In places I found the little touches of misandry quite funny, but then when I stopped to think about it I found it onerous. There is just so much relentless man-hating in this book, and I'm scared that some readers may interpret this as 'feminism'. It's not. A feminist utopia would be where men and women are equal. A world where women are superior is misandrist. Does Grant Morrison understand this at all?

I was also uncomfortable with the 'makeover' scene. Frankly, it was appalling. When holed up in a motel and under investigation from the US army, I don't think any woman would decide that a makeover would be the best thing to do. This is not how women behave. This is not what I want to see in a Wonder Woman book. And going back to Paradise Island - why are there not women of all shapes and sizes and colours? Why is Nubia the only black Amazon? Why are they all so freaked out by Candy's size? This is weird. And disappointing.

Morrison has attempted to tackle the diversity issue in his portrayal of Steve Trevor as black. I have a suspicion that this was done purely to placate an audience searching for diversity. It had no real meaning or impact on the character. In fact, Steve Trevor had no character to speak of. A missed opportunity. What I would have preferred to see was more people of different shapes, sizes and colour throughout the book. In any crowd-scene, the people are all quite blatantly white. If you're going to tackle diversity, maybe do it a bit more consistently?

I have a suspicion that Grant Morrison didn't talk to any women at all when he wrote this book. He has an idea in his head of what women are like, and what they would like to read. Whatever this idea is, it's wrong. Next time, perhaps employ a more sensitive writer? Or, you know what, perhaps employ a woman???