Wonder Woman: Earth One, Vol. 2

Wonder Woman: Earth One, Vol. 2

2018 • 120 pages

Ratings4

Average rating3.5

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JKRevell
Jamie RevellSupporter

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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