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resnullius_bells) wrote2020-01-23 02:06 am
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Basically Diana goes around showing her female villains she loves them and inspires people to step up, two of my favorite things about Wonder Woman (along with the gratuitous bondage, which also makes a few appearances!). The art was gorgeous, overall, and it's made me regret that I already posted a bunch of Diana's icons here LOL.
The first story, The Wild Hunt Finale, is a wrap up from the previous arc (which I know nothing about). The Cheeta/Diana feels were strong in this one, between Diana’s wish to help her at all costs and Minerva’s goal of freeing Diana from the gods. And I love when Wonder Woman writers remember bondage is a cornerstone of the character LMAO, and they went all in here, with Diana using the lasso on Minerva and her submitting. Anyway, now Diana will do her own missions independent from the Pantheon, or something. And when she gets back home to Boston she gets arrested. IDK why, but who knows if it’s because it’s the first new WW comic I read in years, or because it’s a new plot twist.
From Small Things, Mama by Gail Simone (hi Gail, I really need to see what else you’ve written these past few years. Also, please, come back to the Iron Man run, pretty please) has Diana help Peony (little girl with flower powers) rescue kids from a fire. Then Peony’s family invites Diana to dinner. Then her mother appears and SHE gets invited to dinner, after telling Diana her giant shark friend is dead. They all bond and comfort each other. It’s all very cute, art included, but Diana says the phrase “I’m only human” and it’s weird as hell LOL.
The Interrogation puts us back to the arrest (I think? It’s not clear, or I’m sleep-deprived. One of those two). It was all an Ares plot. Diana thwarts it. Hooray (I’m still slightly bitter about 2017’s WW plot twist).
The next story, Never Change, happens in NOLA, during Mardis Gras, where everyone is dressed like superheroes. Circe and Diana have a date (well, a girl can dream, at least); Diana wants Circe to do some mysterious spell, and Circe wants her lasso in exchange (not the lasso Diana!!). Then we cut to Cheeta, who’s being worshipped in some sort of cave. Diana interrupts to tell her that she loves her (this issue is being very good to me so far) and they fight. Turns out what Diana wanted from Circe was to restore Minerva to herself, but she refused. The fate of the lasso is left in the air, to my chagrin.
A story with young Diana in Themyscira just before Steve crashes there, To Leave Paradise, follows. I love the art and the characterization in this one, with Diana’s curiosity about the outside world.
The next one, Emergency Visit, is… weird. Diana’s body looks cartoonish and disproportionate, but I like that it is in a muscled-y way. Guy Garner has a cameo, because sometimes comics just hate me, I guess. Hippolyta lured a Hydra to have an excuse to bring Diana home, and spends the comic mothering her. The Diana vs. Hydra art is perfection.
AND THEN COMES THE BOMBSHELLS STORY (known as “every female superhero fought the nazis in WW2 and was super gay in the meantime”). I should reread and finish that run, it was lovely. Anyway, To Me has characters talking about how important Diana is to them (Kate, Steve, Mera, Kara… so non-villain people I ship her with, plus the Wonder Girls). It has a very touching speech about grief from Diana too.
Then we get a story about Diana’s relationship with Vanessa/Silver Swan -yet another antagonist I ship her with (it’s not my fault if Diana goes around declaring love to all her female villains, and make it so that they love her back but want to hurt her at the same time. The tragedy gets to me). In Always Vanessa remembers their battle while she recovers in a facility, waiting for Diana’s visit. They hug it out and it’s nice. There's yet more gratuitous bondage, bless.
The last story, A Brave New World, has Diana in 1939 saving the president from an assassination attempt. It’s all narrated by Alan Scott and about how important Diana is for humanity.