The Stop Button

I would love to read Azzarello’s pitch for Wonder Woman. “Let’s see, I’m going to empower women through promiscuity. Oh, and I’m going to have giants!”

This issue manages to burn through all the goodwill I had toward Chiang on the title in a few pages. Wonder Woman, her slutty (sorry, empowered) female charge and Hermes head to Paradise Island. Where we find out the Amazons are so advanced… they can’t even tell who’s invading them.

Then we meet Wonder Woman’s mom and Wonder Woman has a staff duel with some other Amazon. There are white Amazons and black Amazons and who knows what other kinds… I mean, Strife (the giant I mentioned before) is blue.

I thought these people were supposed to be Greeks and Romans.

Azzarello’s take on Wonder Woman is still a big question mark because she’s not an important player in the issue.

It’s rather crappy.

CREDITS

Home; writer, Brian Azzarello; artist, Cliff Chiang; colorist, Matthew Wilson; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Chris Conroy and Matt Idelson; publisher, DC Comics.