Six issues in, this is an impressively-made comic about the abstract idea of Wonder Woman that doesn't in particular feel like it has anything to say about the character besides "she's iconic". The action is well-choreographed and the art is beautiful, but the whole thing is stiff and hollow, with Diana endlessly viewed at a remove by a narrator whose main takeaway is that she's really quite impressive. A well-crafted comic that's too impressed with its own scale and spectacle to actually be about anything, which is a fatal flaw in a Wonder Woman comic.

(Also really, the only queerness we're getting is poor Vanessa Kapatelis recast as a lesbian stalker? Awful.)

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Psycamorean - Feb 29, 2024

I've yet to catch up on this title, but I was really fearing that this was the case. I feel like King has issues writing female characters, often writing stereotypes and tropes instead of fully formed characters, and therefore his way of showing empowerment is often lacking and superficial.

KittyNone - Mar 2, 2024 (edited)

Yeah, I'm afraid that's my read on this series so far: Diana isn't a character with an inner life, she's an abstracted symbol of female power, but the ostensible power she symbolizes is itself abstracted to the point of meaning nothing beyond "a woman who can ricochet bullets off her bracelets is very strong and impressive"

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