Wonder Woman #48

We start off a new Wonder Woman story with this and while I'm happy that it introduces a re-imagined Dr. Poison to the series, this first issue just leaves me wanting more because nothing that really went down here felt right.  Motives are weird, our hero is weird and the dialog at times is just awful.  It's been a rough go with Wonder Woman lately and I just hope that this story arc straightens itself out because I want to love Wonder Woman again. Read Full Review

In Wonder Woman #48, our hero takes on the growing threat of terrorism and....it's just about as awkward as you might think. Maybe even more so. Read Full Review

JBL Reviews

Jan 23, 2016

Fine. Not nearly as bad as the reviews.

Supes' soups

Jan 21, 2016

Is it just me or has the last few issues been so random, the title now feels disconnected? I had to go back to issue #47 to figure out what was going on, only to find that issue 47 had nothing to do with issue 48. Issue 47 might as well have been a one shot. Also Diana's new costume must take forever to wash at the dry cleaners because it's disappeared for 2 issues and now she's back in her stripper outfit. I enjoy David Finch's pencils but if this title doesn't correct itself soon, it's really going down the toilet. Issues #41-46 might not have been an amazing story arc but at least the issues felt connected. It's interesting that the only DC books I consider must-reads have had the same writer since the new 52 inception: Batman and Justic e League. Everything else has fallen off a cliff. Except for Grayson, that book is dope. more

JV

Jan 28, 2016

Short and sweet. I don't mind the grounded story line. I like when the hero's take it down a notch sometimes. The art is always good from Finch. My only complaint was the lack of consistency. In th same scene, but different panels, Wonder Woman is wearing blue boots, then she is wearing red boots. This may be more a colorist issue, than Finch, but someone should have caught that. Also in the scene where Wonder Woman is being attacked by the mob, she loses her lasso to Maru, however in the very next panel WW has her lasso back on. Yes, she could have picked it back up, but really.... if any Villain ever had the lasso in their hands, would they really drop it and run?

Vancha

Feb 16, 2016

This reads like some combination of a filler issue and a propaganda comic from WW2/the cold war...Even the dialogue was suitably cheesy to fit in with a bygone era of comics. Once again David Finch (sort of) saves the day, by making the comic at least pretty to look at, but I'm baffled why he's gone back to drawing Diana's old costume. It only really serves to make these strange stand-alone issues we're getting feel even more detached, as if we're viewing flashbacks or something. That said, if I were to imagine the last couple of issues as back-ups that were written months ago in case one of the Finchs got sick or something, they'd suddenly make a lot more sense.

Shiva

Jan 21, 2016

The only reason I gave this issue a 4 was because of the art. If I was judging it only by the story it would be given a 1. The art is really good, but the story is so bad that it drags down the visuals. But hey, maybe I am being overly harsh, because if this was a story published under a Justice League animated banner, it would rank as a 7. It is the type of story where Meredith Finch literally spells out everything about the new villain named Dr. Poison. And it is a really cliché origin. Disgruntled daughter of wrongly convicted Russian scientists who die in prison. Girl grows up resenting America and plots killing the president with poison. Uses a drone to try to drop poison on the President. WW stops it. WW then chases bad girl throug h streets and catches her. While in custody, Bad girl (Dr. Poison escapes). It is a very simplistic one shot. In fairness to Finch, it is a great starter comic for young girls just getting to know Wonder Woman and a new rogues gallery, but I would expect such plot lines in an animated or children's book featuring the amazing amazon. Last issue Wonder Woman senselessly chased the Cheetah around Paradise Island and discovered that there was a lone survivor of the Manazon massacre. The amazon zealot Donna Troy did not succeed in exterminating all the amazon men after all. By far the most logical continuation from last issue was to explore the sole survivors story. WW failed him and his men. And she specifically told Anastanzio(? I think his name was) that she would go back for him. Thus, true to form, WW has once again lied to a manazon. Her first lie (assuring them they would be safe) led to their extermination and now her second has resulted in the abandonment of the sole survivor (who clearly needed medical attention as he was missing an arm!!). This series has really fallen off the rails. Meredith Finch does have some good story ideas but her execution is simply not up to the standard readers deserve regarding an ic more

Alan

Jan 27, 2016

This is another unremarkable comic from the Finches. Like 47, this is a one shot comic. It reintroduces Dr. Poison, one of Wonder Woman's oldest villians but does so in the worst way possible. First of all, Doctor Poison is originally a Japanese woman who disguises herself as a man, in this reinventing she's turned into a blonde and blue eyed Russian in generic evil villian lady military garb with an axe to grind with the US. Only... her reason doesn't make sense. Her parents were Russian scientists who were approached by US spies with offers to work for them. Her parents refused and their government rewarded they're loyalty by, locking them up in a Siberian prison and torturing them to death. So why isn't she mad at Russia instead? Holes in logic like this are quickly becoming a staple of Meredith Finch. So this horribly generic Doctor Poison wants to kill the president with poison. She uses a cloaked drone to try and drop a canister of poison on the president and Wonder Woman stops it... sort of. The drone starts to drop and Wonder Woman cries out that she's not fast enough to stop it. What? One of the hurdles of writing for a hero like Wonder Woman is that she can do almost anything. She can fly fast and I'm pretty sure she can handle one drone falling to the ground a few feet away from her. Instead she lasso's and slams the drone into the ground while a couple secret service men cover up the president. That's a really messy way to deal with lethal poison gas. The conclusion of the comic is just eye rolling. Why would Doctor Poison be within visual range of the president if she's using a drone? Why would Wonder Woman give Doctor Poison a heads up before trying to capture her? Why would sending drugged civilians against Wonder Woman make a lick of difference when she can just fly over them? Why would Wonder Woman not have the presence of mind to wrest free from the civilians when they tried to jump her? Just how did Doctor Poison shru more

Briton

Jan 30, 2016

I used to love WW and still look in now and again to see if DC have sorted things out. Not on this evidence. The comic is an incoherent shambles. It's the worst issue of a comic I have come across in some time. See you in another 5 years Diana!