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8.5
Tom King writing young characters reads like a completely different author versus him writing almost any other property. The trio of heroes (Damien, Jon, Lizzie) are a fun group to see them interacting, lots of bickering and love between what are 'siblings' between the original trinity of DC's mythos. This is a collection of the backup stories at the end of the Wonder Woman issues which is great if you aren't following the main story.
I like Lizzie and I understand why some people would dislike Trinity; she has a lot of elements that make readers usually hate new female characters. Very girl boss, a know-it-all and extremely headstrong and sarcastic toward. When you read this one-shot, you can understand why she's like that; Lizzie is a girl raised and babysat by two boys learning more masculine behavior. Oh and apparently Diana is an absentee mother.
Still, I enjoyed this and now I'm feeling more conflicted about not reading the current Wonder Woman book. Hmm... something to think about. Belen Ortega's art is a comfortable fusion of DC's house style and anime-ish tastes.
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6.0
Tom King being edgy for no reason once again
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5.5
Something almost absurdly comical about a CIA spook being so out of ideas that he decides the Amazons need to have a ritual where a mother points a gun at her daughter.
The opening feature was charming but King, as always, drags it down. The sooner he's fired the better.
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5.0
I liked the previously released back ups in the Wonder Woman issues but the new story is bad with awful character portrayals.
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4.0
This score is only about the new material. I kind of hated it. It's so weird and off putting.
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3.5
Trinity punching Diana reminded me of that one issue in Batman / Catwoman where Helena fought Selina. Didn’t like this new story, and I stand by my theory that the Super Sons were the real stars of the backup not Trinity. $6 for essentially an extra backup is not worth it. Don’t know how you make the daughter of Wonder Woman uninteresting and unlikable, but King found a way.
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2.5
I'm not going to lie I enjoyed the goofy escapades of Damian, Jon and Lizzie, this was a nice way to humanize them. The art was fantastic and the dialogue wasn't s**t like the WW run. What turned me off despite all of that was how at the end Lizzie punches Diana in the face for not wanting to shoot her during her Amazon trials. The ish also shows that Diana also did this during her trials punching her mother in the face. BULLSH**! Why do you have to make Lizzie an insufferable competitive pain in the butt like every second she has screen time?
But anyway no way in hell would Diana ever disrespect her mother like that in front of all the Amazons or even privately. That is so beneath her and disgusting King really is pissing and sh**ting all over Diana why is this being allowed?! And of course excusing Lizzie's behavior of disrespecting her mother Diana just because of Diana did it too, F**k you.
That's Diana's one and only daughter she has every right to feel the way she did, Lizzie didn't have to disrespect her mother who oh I forgot happens to be WONDER WOMAN! Tom King must be some kind of sadist or masochist who thinks the only way to raise someone up is to tear someone down. These behaviors are completely alien to the Amazon culture, Lizzie could have just made an endearing speech to Diana that she had to trust her to survive the gun. That would have been good enough but no we have to defecate on these characters, who gave this the okay they should have been fired?!
If this was suppose to make me respect Lizzie it has the opposite effect. And this was one of the things I was looking forward to despite pretty much being disgusted with this WW run. I was excited to find out more about Diana's daughter but now I see King is up to his usual tricks. It's going to take a lot for me to unsee this disgrace and like Lizzie I really want to like her too because she has my mom's name which is really cool. But if you keep making her a mean, insufferable, competitive brat like that annoying kid in school it won't be such a great time... more
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2.0
So this is functionally a bait and switch. Its mostly a reprint book of the back-ups with a really pathetic like what...8 pages of new story with Trinity punching WW in the face which is apparently the same thing WW did to her mom. Which btw is not in character. So essentially framing Trinity as a copy and paste of her mom just more annoying and cocky I guess.
There is no reason to purchase this book unless you like to waste money. You likely already have almost the entire story. Save your time and money. If you are giving this a 10 I must assume you give everything from King a 10 or you have never bought WW and actually like these back-ups alone.
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