From what I can gather, this was a homage to the original Wonder Woman origins which called back to the Wonder Woman of William Moulton Marston aka Charles Moulton (pen name). A bit overly reliant on the use of bondage and submissive undertones (so much kneeling) for my tastes. My main issue with the book, however, was the lack of surprises or originality in the plot. There were some minor changes made to the established characters that I enjoyed. Diana having a female lover and Steve Trevor not being the typical blue-eyed milk toast he usually is depicted as was a welcome change. The art and color palette were very aesthetically pleasing and the detailed backgrounds really aided in the storytelling. Not my favorite costume design but it did give homage to the classic W.W. aesthetic so I can't fault the stylistic choices made.

Seems many people didn't like this one, but I really liked the nods to the original Wonder Woman stories.

I checked out all the Wonder Woman comics my library had in, but I regret getting this one. It's terrible.

It really bothers me that Hippolyta compliments her daughter by calling her beautiful. That's such a typical example of how we tell girls they're pretty and boys they're smart. But Diana _is_ strong, why isn't that what Hippolyta mentions? When she talks about Diana's strength it's always a criticism. The new time period is meh and the origin story change is OK I guess.

Also, I have no problem with all the chains, or that they drew her in a legless bodysuit, but I don't like how high-cut it is.

Points of making Steve Trevor black and for him bringing up slavery. Also Beth Candy is great and "sci-fi lesbians with a side of bondage" is my new cover band.

3.5 stars

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

Grant Morrison'a rağmen fena değil. Yannick Paquette döktürmüş.

I didn't really like this one. The Amazons were narrow-minded, judgmental, jealous and at times seemingly cruel. Diana was a product of their ignorance and didn't seem particularly wonderful. She body shamed and likened little girls to cowering, useless babes. I did think that perhaps the writers did this intentionally to show growth and the fact that perfection isn't born, but achieved, but upon the first reading it really doesn't come across that way.

I appreciated how Themyscira was more advanced, not unlike Atlantis, but that was pretty much the only positive about the whole story. You can totally tell that this one was written by a man (not to sound reductive and misandrist.) but...yeah. It was "eh" at best.

1.8/5

I wanted to like this. I really did. This was a chance to do some awesome things with Wonder Woman, like Gail Simone's run; pulling from the original material was going to be a bit of an...unstable bomb. Sure, some of the original ideas were great and remarkably feminist for the time. However, they were also incredibly problematic and outdated by today's standards.

The art was absolutely gorgeous, well colored and great lines. It also unfortunately tended towards the old school style of only posing women provocatively if possible, and with as much t&a visible as possible. I did appreciate that for the most part, the Amazons were visually diverse and included those that were androgynous or masculine leaning and not just a bunch of buxom blondes or Greek looking women, as well as some punk/pop culture.

I was disappointed in the choice to keep some pretty offensive ideals in the comic, completely undercutting any potential feminist message with sizeist language, not to mention the ridiculous treatment of kink (yes I know there were kink overtones in the original WW, but having the character that gets repeatedly called gross and wrong be the kinky one ruins a chance at having a normal discussion of kink, especially because it gets brought up then just discussed with winks and nods).

It's disappointing that they could manage to do such a good job of updating and changing Steve Trevor for political and cultural relevancy when they relegated the primary portions of the story to old tired tropes and outdated ideology.

I've never read a Wonder Woman comic in my life, but I was glad to start with this one. My reaction is best summed up by sorority sister Beth Candy:



Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 provides a sexually positive, gender glorifying look at Diana, the Amazonian princess who realizes that total dominance and war are not the answer in creating paradise. Let's be honest though, we're all excited to see more Beth Candy: