Johnson is a genius. This book moves along like none other. It also looks like no other book out there. This is a book that could have been cheesy and silly. Instead, it has amazing writing and artwork and it is just brilliant. Kudos to Daniel Warren Johnson for his work on this amazing book. Read Full Review

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #1 is a surprise from DCs Black Label, which until now has been home to established DC superstars like Frank Miller and Scott Snyder, playing in familiar sandboxes. Its a nice departure for Black Label and one thats extremely welcome. Read Full Review

This is a brutal, beautiful story which strips Wonder Woman down to the bones of the myth then polishes those ruins until they absolutely glow. Read Full Review

Love conquers all in the intriguing, thrilling "Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #1" Read Full Review

This is a strong debut issue for Johnson's take on Wonder Woman and I can't wait to read the second issue. DC Black Label continues to be a really fun alternative to most mainstream DC books on the shelves and diversify the company's selection more and more with each new release. Read Full Review

Dead Earth is an energetic debut that's full of DWJ's greatest hallmark's, while underling the core that makes Wonder Woman so special: Love. Read Full Review

Writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson's story positions Wonder Woman as humanity's last surviving hero and protector, and it very much plays out like a superhero riff on Mad Max: Fury Road as far as the narrative goes. Artistically, Johnson and Spicer's style complements the raw and rough world where Diana finds herself and really sets the tone for the first issue. Read Full Review

Daniel Warren Johnson has some brilliant ideas in this issue, someone just needs to tell him that. Read Full Review

Overall, I think thatWonder Woman: Dead Earthwill thrive once all four books have been released. While I love the title there are some glaring issues that keep this book from greatness though I have absolute faith in its development which makes me frustrated that the book is coming out every other month, but is to be expected with the 48-page count. If you're looking for a different kind of Wonder Woman story, pick upDead Earth. Read Full Review

This was a great read. DWJ does a great job WW's larger than life persona. The art is just amazing. It's refreshing to read a positive female role model without the writer talking do his audience (yet)

Let's hope he keeps this up! I'm on board

I ENJOY THIS VERY MUCH . GOT ME INTERESTED. I LOVE END OF WORLD TYPE IN DC COMICS. WELL DONE ALL AROUND . CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE.

I haven't read a Wonder Woman story since DC Rebirth's "Truth" and "Lies" story arc a couple of years back. I've been having a good run of luck with DC Black Label series so adding Dead Earth to my pull list as an easy decision.

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth is a nice companion piece to Batman: Last Night on Earth. Both books cover similar post-apocalyptic scenarios. Dead Earth benefits by being a much tighter and focused narrative. Last Knight on Earth felt like a tour of the decimated DC universe while Dead Earth feels like a personal journey for Diana. There are some big twists in this issue and come surprising and unexpected cameo's from DC heavy hitters.

One element that I didn't care for was the cover. It's pretty bland and it doesn't help that this incarnation of Wonder Woman doesn't look like any version I've seen before. I would best describe () on Diana's look as homely and felt that way until about midway through the issue. Wonder Woman's appearance is rough and matches the gritty style of the setting. In-universe she's said to be beautiful but that's in comparison to the rest of the world that has gone to hell.

Underneath the grime, this is the same Wonder Woman that you know and love and I could still hear Gal Gadot's voice while reading the issue. That's a credit to _ writing. She gets this character and what makes Diana so endearing to fans despite the setting.

I don't have many complaints. The book is worthy of the Black Label format. The cover choices may hold the book back from some readers but aside from that, it's a great comic and one of the best Black Label books released to date.
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It took a while to adapt to art, but it was great issue. Wonder woman is in post-apo world like a concentrated hope and light. She want to save everybody. I'm looking forward to next issue with more information about past and connecton between WW and catastrophy that decimated humankind.

Better than any Wonder Woman comic in the last year

If you like the work of Daniel Warren Johnson you'll like this series too.

So Wonder Woman Last Knight on Earth then? I do like seeing Wonder Woman get a dedicated graphic novel about the end of the world that would usually be reserved almost exclusively for Batman. I don't like the new Cheetah design.... eww. Yes, I get she is a mutation.

A pretty solid start here, in my opinion. I think a little bit of the story here felt somewhat rushed, but it wasn't anything to the point where I didn't enjoy the book. The story, as a whole, is definitely interesting and it leaves me wanting more. Also, Johnson's art is great, of course.

Yet another post-apocalyptic comic from DC. I enjoy the art but every character seems so young, Wonder Woman looks 14. A bit of a drag of an issue but this series definitely has potential

Solid start. An elseworld story of Wonder Woman in a post-apocalyptic world, written and drawn by DWJ. Its sad that this is the best Wonder Woman series going on rn. Im short, WW wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by monsters with pockets of humans, and has to figure out what happened in order to help humanity survive.

Lots of build up, but done crisp and clean writing with some bombastic action scenes of WW fighting monsters. Art was the perfect style for such a genre, really gritty and raw with colors that pop out to the eye. However, I really don't like how Wonder Woman looks. Sorry, but she was always a Victoria Secret style of an MMA fighter, here she is a teenage sized mess of a bad hair day. I know DWJ wanted to show her messed up, but still.

Overall, this comic was a solid start. Nice cover art, really like the prestige format, and 50 pages of non-ad action. more

Solid, interesting, pretty. Not as gripping as it could've been until the very end. But it's going to be four issues, each the length of this one (which was 45 pages of actual comic book, x4 for a total of a ~180-page story in the end) and the final page definitely got me primed for what's next.

I checked this out because of how much I enjoyed Daniel Warren Johnson's Extremity and Murder Falcon. Diana looks a bit young, but the creature designs are cool. Even though this is a post apocalyptic future, the weirdest thing is Batman's body in full uniform dead on his couch. It's not like Batman to die sitting down. But I'm liking this overall, DWJ is good at expressing his characters' inner emotions. If you like this, check out Extremity which is even better.

In which Diana wakes up to a ruined earth, is betrayed, then beaten, yet her undying resolve to love mankind, flawed though it may be, still causes her to emerge victorious.

I loved some aspects of this but was very bothered by others. First of all, either this was crammed with way too many plot developments, or I've become so used to the plot decompression in modern comics that I FEEL as though too many plot developments were crammed into this. Daniel Warren Johnson takes on a very busy tour on Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #1 yet I felt I wasn't allowed to ever stop and smell the roses, so to speak.

Because of the hastened pace, it feels as though many things that could've been explained better (or at all) had no time to breathe, and it was only halfway through the book that I stopped feeling as though I was playing catch up with the plot. It does seem to be leading to some pretty interesting places, however, so I can't wait for the next issue out in February.

As for the art, I'd never read a book pencilled by Daniel Warren Johnson before, and while I love his different style, a couple of things bothered me a bit. First, his portrayal of Wayne Manor isn't nearly Manor-like enough. It's silly, I know, but I was really stuck on this god knows why. Also, I'm very curious as to why a post apocalyptic world's aesthetic would be half medieval, half low-budget sci-fi.

All in all, Dead Earth is a fascinating addition to Diana's story, but it went by way too fast for my taste and didn't expand on a number of interesting things I wish I knew more about. more

This was fine. It didn't stand out, but it's not a very involved read.

Meh.

Ah yes, Batman died as I think we all expected he would… sitting on his couch.

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