There’s also some genuine pathos given to the character as she desperately wants her daughter Lyta.
Especially when she’s dealing with someone as volatile as Medusa, you’re not sure where things are headed for her. Having her slightly under the thumb of the Gorgongs makes her situation dramatically better. I think it’s always more interesting for Circe to be in a position where she has lost her status. Thankfully, he’d get to work with Nicola Scott when he returned to the book about a decade later, and those issues are so much better. It’s the artists thinking they are being cute or something? I just wish they had paired Rucka with an artist that matched the quality of his writing. This really isn’t Rucka’s doing because the writing doesn’t make this a necessity. The expected cheesecake poses don’t come from Diana, but Circe is definitely presented as a sex object. The artists don’t seem to understand female anatomy in the slightest resulting in some comically amateurish work. I do not know why they gave him the artists and fill-in artists they did, but some of these issues are remarkably ugly. One giant flaw in Rucka’s run, especially in this volume, is the artwork. Ultimately, there is one final battle with Medusa that leads Diana into a deal with Athena. Medusa eventually attacks the embassy, which leads to another amazing fight moment that ends in tragedy. All the while, Athena plots in Olympus and manages to enlist Ares into her plan to overthrow the triad of main gods: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
Diana is bitten by the snakes that make up Medusa’s hair resulting in her losing her eyesight for the rest of this volume. That first attack is a fantastic moment at the White House, where Diana happens to run into Steve Trevor. In the background, Circe aids the Gorgons and Medusa, who wants her revenge on Wonder Woman. There’s time spent on both old villains and introducing new ones in the context of this run of Wonder Woman, Diana acting as a United Nations ambassador.įor the first couple of issues, Wonder Woman deals with various problems left over from the last volume. I think he actually balances Man’s World and the mythological elements a little better than Perez. The story is very good, and Rucka proves he’s a worthy successor to George Perez’s legendary opening run. Those stories sort of fade into the background as the action here is centered all around the conflict between Wonder Woman the Olympian Gods.
This is an odd one because it shifts away from many of the storylines centered around Veronica Cale, Doctor Psycho, and Vanessa Kapetelis. Reprints Wonder Woman v2 #206-217 & Flash v2 #219
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