King doing a riff on Columbo with Detective Chimp could be considered clever, I guess. Except I don’t like Detective Chimp. He is a character from a bygone era, and the child-like humor doesn’t mesh with the more serious WW story.

Speaking of WW, King bringing in the chimp really messes with the whole Diana mourning the death of Steve arc, and the bonding with baby arc. King’s writing is so distant. Never in the moment. BuT not liking Detective Chimp is a me thing. Your mileage may vary, and fair enough. But it really is a clash of tones that doesn’t work. Also king of U.S. really strikes me as a riff on Court of Owls. In fairness, exposing the secret king is a Move Batman could do with the court, so fair play to King. Overall the plot just unspools and there is no sense of action or stakes. A mechanical run with no life.

Or I could be wrong.

The art was nice. more

A solid ending to a miniseries that I wish would've had more of an impact. It doesn't really have much of a purpose besides adding more commentary on a status quo that Tom King doesn't fully take advantage of in his Wonder Woman run. The commentary is good but you wonder if it's worth a six issue miniseries where things more or less end where they started, status quo wise.

Absurd imaginary stories in Diana's mind. That is all this issue is.
Just think about what CIA's Tom King would put there.
The CIA looks at law and wipes its feet on it. So that's the values you will be reading.
So murder? Hey, that's OK with the CIA.
Just remember it is all one big fake-out in this one big, long "imaginary" story.
(At least for now.)
Which allows King to write what he REALLY DOES want to write, but have plausible deniability.

But it also says everything you need to know about values of DC Comics that they published
CIA's Tom King's caricaturization of legendary WWII hero Steve Trevor cooing that murder is "fun." No amount of "great art" or sci-fi narrative can cover the foundational stench of moral and values decay.
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