Book Description: Best-selling author Jodi Picoult, the writer of best-selling novels The 10th Circle and Sister's Keeper, takes Wonder Woman on a collision course with her long-missing people, the Amazons.The action begins when Wonder Woman is assigned the task of capturing Wonder Woman while in her disguise as Special Agent Diana Prince of the Department of Metahuman Affairs.How will she be able to accomplish the impossible task of capturing herself without revealing her secret identity? This is just the start of the Amazon Warrior's problems, as Diana must relearn how to exist as a human woman while a deadly foe begins closing a net on her that will lead to a catastrophic outcome!
good comic I really enjoyed reading this. Terry and Rachel Dodson's art is excellent as always, and Piccoult's writing seemed pretty good to me. I've heard a few bad things about this series, but being a Wonder Woman fanatic but not much of a comic book reader I can't complain. This was my first ever graphic novel and I thought it was really good. The Dodson's Wonder Woman is the most beautiful version of the Amazon princess I have yet laid eyes on.
Not Jodi's fault Ms Picoult should not be blamed for the faults of this book. On its own merits it is a story that has humorous characterization done quite well. However, it does not really develope well as a story since the writer prior, Heinberg couldn't finish his five issues within even a years time leaving Ms Picoult to figure out how he was going to finish his work (which DC was allowing him to do and that would be published after the completion of Ms Picoult's work as a Wonder Woman annual)
Her story is further curtailed by having to fit her work to work with the atrocious Amazons Attack miniseries which was written by the writer of Catwoman, Will Pfeiffer. Ms Picoult is left not being able to write Wonder Woman achieving anything within the story as Mr Pfeifer wrote his series more as a Batman feature with the Amazons cast as villains.
It is a shame that the skills of Ms Picoult were so wasted as the glimmerings of her writing only show the poverty of situation in which DC Comics placed her. The cover of the book is sadly misleading in that it is using the desigh used on the cover of many of her books. Unfortunately, though her name is prominent on the cover, DC Comics did not allow her to use her capacities as a storyteller inside.
A complete misfire. After hiring Allan Heinberg to do the first five issues of the "Wonder Woman" reboot, DC turned to novelist Jodi Picoult to do another five-issue story arc. The result is a complete misfire on a number of levels, some of which are Picoult's fault, and some of which are DC's. Finally, there is the art (by, successively, Drew Johnson, Terry Dodson, and Paco Diaz), which is very good.
Beginning with the things that are DC's fault: "Wonder Woman v.3" has, from the start, been a disastrous revision to Diana's status quo, saddling her with her civilian identity of Diana Prince, as a US government agent, giving her a "human" form (which she is not compelled to use, but chooses to for some reason), stripping away the distinctive innovations made by George Perez in the 1987 reboot. Diana, a Themysciran diplomat, has now more or less decided that what she really needs to do is start chanting "U-S-A!" and be more 'human' (a major thesis propagated by the normally-talented Geoff Johns in "Infinite Crisis" being that Diana is not human already, which he seems to equate with being born and raised in America), and in order to observe humanity, she gets a job as a secret agent (certainly something most people can relate to), doing the same things she would do as Wonder Woman, except without her powers, and endangering other people in the process. Picoult, a big-name writer, doesn't even get to write her own story here, because the thrust is a tie-in to the abominable "Amazons Attack" crossover, which you will have to buy if you want the end of the story, since this trade ends on a cliffhanger.
And now there are the things that are Picoult's fault: while the plot was dictated to her, the characterization is all her own, and Picoult completely fails at capturing Diana's character. She acts like she just arrived from Themyscira (really, not even Perez had her act as naive as she does here), despite having been in Patriach's World for years (in fact, the IC reboot extends her time considerably, rendering this characterization choice even more nonsensical). Then there is her 'relationship' with Nemesis, the her partner at her spy agency; Heinberg introduced the character poorly, but Picoult takes the character and his interaction with Wonder Woman to new lows, depicting them as particularly stupid teenagers with juvenile banter.
The art, by Johnson (who I will forever associate with Greg Rucka's excellent run on the title in Volume 2), Dodson (who had rough going with Heinberg and Picoult, but is now working on Gail Simone's much-improved run), and Diaz is excellent; Diana has seldom looked better than she does here, even when the writing as seldom been as poor.
This is, overall, a terrible depiction of the character, a major part of why 2007 was Diana's worst year since her creation.
a new wonder woman... and a stunning hard cover for her debut the nice thing about this story line of wonder woman is that it departs from the traditional wonder woman stories of the 80s and 70s. it does not pay homage to the classic wonder woman roots, as did george perez's wonder woman. in face, this wonder woman catapults the character right into the problems of the dc universe... showing that she is integrated into the multi/universe that she is a part of. dc sure made good with this book, along with the companion amazons attack hard cover.
Very Disappointing 'Love and Murder' was essentially filler material while waiting for Gail Simone's arc to begin, and the final installment of Allan Heinberg's run. This book ties into the now infamous 'Amazons Attack' event, and that's where most of the 'action' really happens.
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