DustinRiccio
Thursday, April 07, 2011, 09:43 AM
Title: Wonder Woman #609
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Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester
Pencils: Don Kramer
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Number of pages:
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: A - Appropriate for age 9 and up.
Reviewer Comments:
I only started reading Wonder Woman about 2 or 3 issues ago but so far I find the efforts to retool the character interesting. Despite being the archetypal female superhero, Wonder Woman as a character has always been pretty hit-and-miss and she has a fairly convoluted origin and history.
Most of this issue deals with this convoluted origin and history, to a degree. Wonder Woman has been knocked out and Dr. Psycho has decided to take her on a psychic tour through various past lives and incarnations: we have pirate Wonder Woman, blind Wonder Woman, African Wonder Woman and the more familiar interpretations we’ve seen before. Why is Dr. Psycho doing this? Well, Diana doesn’t know and neither do we.
That’s the biggest problem with this comic. It’s clearly taking a step to something bigger and more important, but all we have right now is exposition and exploration. In the letter columns, writer J. Michael Straczynski implores a reader to stick around until issue #612 to see how everything pans out. At that point, this may all make sense but right now it doesn’t. I am curious to see where he’s going but unfortunately this issue is largely just an info dump. Which could still be interesting, I suppose, but it’s still not clear how any of this info is relevant.
That being said, this isn’t a horrible comic. Straczynski and Hester are good writers and I enjoy Don Kramer’s art (I also like the new costume so maybe I’m nuts.) Wonder Woman #609 is an alright read in and of itself but it does seem to exist largely just to help set up the big thing that’s apparently coming in three issues.
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester
Pencils: Don Kramer
Inks:
Colors:
Number of pages:
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: A - Appropriate for age 9 and up.
Reviewer Comments:
I only started reading Wonder Woman about 2 or 3 issues ago but so far I find the efforts to retool the character interesting. Despite being the archetypal female superhero, Wonder Woman as a character has always been pretty hit-and-miss and she has a fairly convoluted origin and history.
Most of this issue deals with this convoluted origin and history, to a degree. Wonder Woman has been knocked out and Dr. Psycho has decided to take her on a psychic tour through various past lives and incarnations: we have pirate Wonder Woman, blind Wonder Woman, African Wonder Woman and the more familiar interpretations we’ve seen before. Why is Dr. Psycho doing this? Well, Diana doesn’t know and neither do we.
That’s the biggest problem with this comic. It’s clearly taking a step to something bigger and more important, but all we have right now is exposition and exploration. In the letter columns, writer J. Michael Straczynski implores a reader to stick around until issue #612 to see how everything pans out. At that point, this may all make sense but right now it doesn’t. I am curious to see where he’s going but unfortunately this issue is largely just an info dump. Which could still be interesting, I suppose, but it’s still not clear how any of this info is relevant.
That being said, this isn’t a horrible comic. Straczynski and Hester are good writers and I enjoy Don Kramer’s art (I also like the new costume so maybe I’m nuts.) Wonder Woman #609 is an alright read in and of itself but it does seem to exist largely just to help set up the big thing that’s apparently coming in three issues.