Being that Brian Azzarello is writing this comic, I was hoping for a good read. And I think I'm getting one! So far, Wonder Woman is like a cross between Xena Warrior Princess and Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Perhaps with a bit of 100 Bullets thrown in although I wouldn't be saying that if someone else was writing the comic so maybe not so much 100 Bullets.
So it's like Xena because there seems to be a big plot revolving around the Greek Gods and their shenanigans on Earth. And Wonder Woman is finding herself mixed up in their drama just like Xena always used to! Also, Wonder Woman runs around the whole comic with another woman who is in her underwear! So it has the same homoerotic undertones of Xena as well!
It reads like Neil Gaiman's Sandman in that this first issue really seems to be setting up a long haul storyline. And the storyline involves the drama of Gods who are all related to one another. And one of them is missing! In this case, it is Zeus (who likes to Destroy things!).
But unlike The Endless who don't really interfere too much with mortals, the Greek Gods just love to fuck with people. Apollo starts off turning three women into Oracles to help him find Zeus. Hermes appears to try to save Zola (the girl in the underwear) from the wrath of Hera.
Hera cuts the heads off of a couple of horses which is, apparently, where Centaurs come from because human torsos sprout from the gaping neck wounds. And I'm pretty sure it's Hera since she's draped in Peacock Feathers. And any 12 year old boy worth his love of mythology can tell you Peacock feathers are one of Hera's symbols!
No, I'm not a twelve year old boy. But I was one a long time ago!
So Hera wants this Zola killed. Hermes wants Zola to live. Apollo wants to find Zeus (and probably kill him). And Wonder Woman just wants a good night's rest.
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Oops! Wrong source material!
Okay. There it is!
So instead of sleeping soundly in London (why is she in London? And why isn't her costume all Union Jacky then?), she gets dragged into this bullshit protect Zola garbage! This all seems somewhat reminiscent of 100 Bullets in some way that makes sense if you really want it to.
By the end of the first issue, the oracles give a typically unclear oracle which leaves Apollo with the possible knowledge that maybe something bad might perhaps be going on and it could be Zeus's fault, maybe? And that maybe Zeus doesn't exist yet? Possibly because he got Zola pregnant with himself?!
A family betrayed by blood! Sibling killing sibling! A god being replaced!
No no no! Not that family!
The Greek one! Gods! Not Endless. Sheesh.
I've got three more issues of this sitting here waiting to be read now and I'm diving right in! I think poor Aquaman is going to be upstaged by Wonder Woman!
Are you sure Zola's female? I think I see a package in that underwear. Why is Wonder Woman a zombie in that one picture? Why can I not stop thinking about Wonderwoman in that second wrong picture? And did you draw the cover? I can't be convinced that a real artist drew the cover. Unless you're a real artist!
ReplyDeleteI really like the cover. It's got a bit of that old school throwback Wonder Woman flair to it. The zombie Wonder Woman picture was an anti-AIDS poster, I believe.
ReplyDeleteAnd Zola could be a man, I guess! Zeus could impregnated him by posing as a rubber vagina. Or dildo.
Doom Bunny is fated to scan comic book/graphic novel underwear till the end of time. He might also be confused by the short hair of Zola. That's probably it.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good job description. "Comic Book Underwear Scanner. Scan comic book people in their underwear until the end of time."
ReplyDeleteIt's good because you get to look at people in their underwear and you get to be immortal!
FUN FACT: tineye.com reveals thirty-one images similar to tied up Wonder Woman. In thirty of them the tied up woman is topless, lacks bracelets and stars on her underwear, and has a crucifix tattoo on the back of her neck that has been removed in the picture shown. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is not a picture of the real Wonder Woman but only an impressive fake.
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