The sublime pencils of Alithea Martinez and her collaboration on inks with Mark Morales is a perfect tandem. Aleen Passalaquas colors are rich and abundant. Set on an island of paradise, this is a story brimming its pages and promising more to come. Read Full Review

The illustration in this beautiful issue is filled with brilliant colors that give off a warm and inviting vibe. Themyscira is also a character in this tale, and I really appreciate the way the artists take the time to show off the island's charms and iconic landscapes. Read Full Review

This mini-series is the best thing to happen to the Amazons of Themyscira in decades. Gone are the days of Amazons Attack! This prelude to Trial of the Amazons has filled me with hope and confidence for the creative team to bring their A-game to the upcoming Wonder Woman event. Read Full Review

It's hard to see exactly where this series will go yet, but this is a very promising start and a worthy expansion of the WW line of books. Read Full Review

If there is a serious flaw in the first couple of chapters of the series, it may be overall pacing. The individual installment is really well-calibrated, but there's a definite deadline for everything. There are only four more issues left to go in the series. There may be a few too many characters in the ensemble for a six-issue miniseries. The balance that the writing team is managing would work quite well for an ongoing series. However, it's difficult to imagine the overall story reaching a satisfying ending by the sixth issue. Read Full Review

Overall, Nubia and the Amazons is expanding its corner of the DC universe in an unexpected"but necessary"way. Read Full Review

Nubia & The Amazons #2 introduces a cool concept about a Fight Club on Themyscira and a formidable villain. That said, the Fight Club concept doesn't make sense in the broader context of life on the island, and it has no relevance to the central conflict of the story. The art is just okay, but it's elevated by gorgeous coloring. Read Full Review

With all of that and William's paragraph style script, there is a lot of book here in a mere twenty something pages (because of the Batgirls preview, which seemed completely unnecessary so I skipped) that will keep reader's of "Nubia And The Amazon's" satisfied for the next 30. Read Full Review

Decent continuation. Builds more on the lore of Themyscira and brings back notable WW villain.,

Nubia & The Amazon’s #1 was a slog to get through. There wasn’t much happening in the issue and aside from some beautiful cover art, there wasn’t much of note worth mentioning.

I decided to see where the story was going and kept the title on my pull list. Sadly this issue starts worst than the last one. It falls into the 2021 trap of presenting “Diverse” characters as flawless wise sages which sounds good in theory but ends up being boring and overly pretentious while reading.

At one point Nubia seeks council from the Amazonian Gods. Its mentioned that Diana has “ The Gift of Knowing”, while Nubia has “The Gift of Distinguishing”. Neither of these descriptions made any sense to me so I asked my 16 year old daughter to take a look at the exchange. She thought that the writer was trying to be deep and poetic and it just didn’t work. I felt the same way but needed a second set of eyes to confirm that I wasn’t crazy. To be fair, even Nubia looks confused about it.

I was ready to give up on the issue until about midway through. While Nubia is considering a new champion to protect “The Well of Souls” she sneaks into “Victory Circle” (Fight Club for Amazons). Nubia observes the new Amazon, Andromeda in action and sees qualities of champion within her inspiring an impromptu fight in the circle between the two.

This exchange leads to a flashback to Andromeda’s life prior to becoming Amazons. It’s strongly hinted that Nubia has a connection to Andromeda that extends well beyond Thy_. This raises several questions including the possibility that Nubia may be unwittingly pulling these women from Earth to become Amazons due to prior relationships with them.

Other concerns are the concepts of personal choice, free will, as well as the idea of consent. None of these Women asked to be Amazons regardless of circumstances. These are complex ideas but I doubt they will be touched on in this series since they have been glossed over at several points already.

There is also a sub-plot involving an entity jumping from body to body in order to get close to Nubia and the head of Medusa. My guess is that Medusa’s soul is trying to reclaim her body but that plot point hasn’t come into focus yet.

There are several interesting plot points here. I think the primary issue the series is facing is a lack of focus on editing and the creative team mistaking pretentiousness for complexity.

The art from Alita Martinez is a bit stronger in this issue as we see the new Amazons developing distinct looks and personalities. The lack of variety in color palate still hurts the series but with more dynamic action sequences and concepts it all balances out in the end.

Issues #1-2 could have probably been edited down to a single issue but now that the setup is out of way we may be in for a decent story.

In Short: I still have reservations based on the train-wreck getting too this point but Stephanie and Vita have laid a foundation that is solid enough to build upon. more

Yeah... this is just a whole lot of talking and it's not particularly interesting talking. Side note: Vita Ayala doesn't write the scripts for this. Stephanie Williams does. Just pointing that out for the idiot who can't read a credits page.

This was a lot more Vita Ayala than Williams, I can always recognize her unnecessary verbal diarrhea that ultimately goes nowhere.