Wonder Woman #8

Wonder Woman's been playing Call of Duty too.

Wonder Woman begins this issue getting together her outfit for her trip to Hell.

Wonder Woman decides to go into Hell alone. I think that's the only way you're allowed to go through Hell. Before Hermes sends her on her way, Hephaestus gives her Cupid's Love Guns. That's not really much of a surprise if you'd read the cover. And you should have since it was a really easy read with practically no words on it!

Currenly, Hell looks like an abandoned London in the middle of a barren world underneath a blood red sky. I feel like I should write a refrain and a melody now. Wonder Woman wonders where all the people have gone as she wanders the empty streets.

They're the street that you're walking on! The buildings you're passing by! The air that you're breathing!

Turns out the dead are also the statues! They shed their stone skin so that they look like something out of the Body Worlds Exhibit by Gunther von Frankenstein. I had to look up that guy's name and it isn't actually Frankenstein. The Body Worlds exhibit was at OMSI in Portland recently and my father-in-common-law and his wife gave me tickets for Christmas. That's the last thing I want to go see. Going from exhibit to exhibit with each one screaming in my head: "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!" One thing I do not find fascinating are the mysteries of the human body exposed for me to gawk out.

Hades and Wonder Woman have a philosophical chat about mortality as Wonder Woman hacks up the undead muscle statues.

Says the immortal guy with a death fetish. Life is also desperate and frantic and sweaty and painful and joyous and random.

I've never been convinced by the "Life is meaningful because it ends" argument. Why is life so full of long, boring stretches? Perhaps it's not short enough!

Diana and Hermes defeat the zombie ghouls and leave London proper for the surrounding countryside.

I just scanned this panel for my girlfriend who has a fear of moths.

Deep within the forest, they find a shadow version of Zola's farm. Zola greets them at the door with a shadow shotgun. It appears she's been in Hell just a little longer than the two or three days it took Diana and Hermes to arrive.

Hopefully gestating in Hell doesn't have any side-effects.

Once they've found Zola, they attempt to leave but are stopped by Hades. He wants Diana to make good on her promise. But Diana knows there is no way Hera is going to agree to be Queen to Hades' King. Hades also knows this but he demands a Queen. Or Cupid's pistols. He says he'll forgive Diana's lie if she hands over the pistols.

Oh, come on, Diana! He wants a Queen and he's willing to forget about it for pistols that make people fall in love! Can't you see you're being set up! Don't do it! Also, was Hephaestus in on this plan since it was his idea for Diana to take the guns?

I actually thought Diana was being naive when she handed over the pistols but it actually appears she was overconfident in her bullet deflecting bracelets!

How cute! It emits a little heart with the bullet!

Diana forces Hermes to take Zola away as she lies dying in love in Hell. As Hermes departs, Hades tells him to bring a message to the rest of the family: "Inform our family. There will be a wedding."

Wonder Woman Issue #8 Rating: No change. Wonder Woman, Action Comics, and Batman are far and away the top three comic books in the New 52. They might as well all be #1 while all of J.T. Krul, Tony Daniel, and Nathan Edmondson's comics can be #52!