Thursday, March 14, 2013
Quick Hits: Wonder Woman #15 (DC)
Like anyone else I'm always hoping that Wonder Woman will somehow become one of the most popular series DC publishes, thereby finally expanding our favorite Amazon into the role she holds by default in the company as the most prominent/important female character in comics. I thought it had another shot when it was announced Brian Azzarello would be writing the New 52 relaunch...and gradually I lost the hope. While he's definitely been doing distinctive work, I've begun to view as less and less essentially and therefore essential work with Wonder Woman herself. He's basically turned her into Percy Jackson. Yet I vowed to have another look when Orion popped up. Orion is one of Jack Kirby's New Gods, one of the few who really stands out, and has been sorely missed since Final Crisis. Yet I'm not sure he works here any better than Wonder Woman, though conceptually they appear to be headed in a much more interesting direction in the months to come, soon to be entangled in the Superman affair currently being featured in Justice League and therefore key to the upcoming Trinity War. All of which is to say this is a series that still bears monitors, works for what it is (basically an indy book starring one of the most famous superheroes of any company), and could still be more.
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I'm glad you liked the share Tony. It really is a shame since she's already the most popular female comic character ever. Maybe it says something that her comic isn't as popular.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard because the writers who've worked on her have not done nearly as good a job making her iconic as Batman and Superman. Everyone knows their origins. Wonder Woman doesn't appear to have the same kind of support. Maybe it's because her transformation point is not as well defined. That's another thing that Geoff Johns has done a good job representing in Justice League, that it's a big deal for her to have appeared. This needs to be stressed in her own book, and that doesn't seem to have been the case.
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