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Jan 31, 2015KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
So the big twist here is that Wonder Woman's origin story has changed. She's yet another child of Zeus in this incarnation instead of actually being made of clay by Queen Hippolyta. Not quite sure why that decision was made but I'm not as sore about the change as some people are. We'll have to see how it all plays out. It took until the third or fourth issue for me to care a but. I'm reading this after coming off the absolutely fabulous The Wicked and the Divine so I'm perhaps a little spoiled with revisionist portrayals of mythological deities. It took a little bit to figure out who everyone was and I'm still trying to decide if it's in a fun way or not. Some are really confusing as to why those artistic decisions were made. Speaking of the art it is very different from what the cover of the volume depicts so take that as you will. I also feel like this book is trying to straddle a line between usual DC comics fare and the darker fare that Vertigo puts out. We'll have to see how that goes in the next volume. I'm not totally convinced here but I'm not entirely put off either.