Wonder Woman: Earth One, Vol. 2
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Average rating3.5
The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times best-selling original graphic novel is here in Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2, from the acclaimed creative team of Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette! For years Diana of Paradise Island yearned to leave behind the only home she knew for adventures that lay beyond its shores. Now, after a fateful meeting with Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, the Amazon Warrior finds herself in ManÕs World. And she is ready for anything that it may throw at her. But is the world ready for Wonder Woman? An American government, fraught with dissension and conflicts foreign to Diana, have deemed her a danger to society. How will Wonder Woman carry out her mission of peace and love in a world that canÕt get out of its own way? That is, unless there are more insidious forces at play... Continuing the tradition of critically acclaimed Earth One tales that challenge the status quo of the comics industry, Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2 is Grant MorrisonÕs latest genre-rocking salvo. With illustrations from Yanick Paquette, this original graphic novel is a classic in the making.
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This alternative take on Wonder Woman's origins moves on to a story that's ostensibly about the increasing unease of the US establishment with Wonder Woman's power, but that's really more concerned with examining Marston's original philosophy for the character. There are plenty of nods to WW's larger history, much of it reframed in a modern context. Dr Psycho is particularly effective as a guru of contemporary misogyny, although Paula von Gunther is rather more caricatured. It does get a bit preachy at times, and it's not really your typical superhero story, but it works well enough and I'm not really sure why it seems so divisive. Perhaps it's weakened by being the middle part of a trilogy, mainly just setting us up for the finale.
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