Wonder Woman #16

This book is tapping into something really unique about the nature of life and death, and it might just go down as King's crowning achievement. Read Full Review

Sovereign continues to narrate his own downfall, explaining his original plan regarding Wonder Woman and how everything in his world is slowly crumbling due to his underestimation of herand her network of allies. We also get a nice cameo from Clark Kent, which wraps up this chapter of the story beautifully. Read Full Review

Once again, King manages what was largely only attempted by Perez and company in the post-Crisis Wonder Woman series. The extended supporting ensemble of the series is meant to be carefully inspired into action around the edges of the presence of Wonder Woman as inspiration for all that takes place. The extended ensemble in the post-Crisis series wasnt quite focussed as much on the influence of Diana. King does a brilliant job of keeping Wonder Woman firmly planted in the center of an issue in which she only makes a couple of minor appearances. Its strikingly witty stuff.  Read Full Review

A very fun guest star heightens the overall creative and fascinating direction this storyline is taking, compared to the bigger picture. A delightful issue of a villain getting his comeuppance. Read Full Review

Wonder Woman #16 is a lot of fun, especially for those who love Tom Kings takes on more obscure DC characters. Read Full Review

Wonder Woman #16 is a fun and engaging issue that offers lighthearted moments through Detective Chimp's spotlight and reveals new layers to The Sovereign. While it excels in humor, art, and character moments, the rush to defeat The Sovereign weakens his narrative impact. This issue feels like a stepping stone rather than a fully satisfying chapter, but it's still an enjoyable read for fans of Wonder Woman and DC's quirky supporting characters. Read Full Review

Wonder Woman #16sends Detective Chimp to tear down the Sovereign's reputation, one lie at a time. Tom King's oddball script has a certain charm, thanks to Detective Chimp's weird impersonation of TV detective Columbo. That said, another Wonder Woman comic without Wonder Woman is just bad form, and the guest artist's output is solid but not as good as regular artist Daniel Sampere.6.5/10 Read Full Review

Hislight

Mar 27, 2025

Loved this! So creative and creepy

BatSledge

Jan 21, 2025

The whole Detective Chimp thing worked well for me, with very strong support from the amazing Bruno Redondo. That said, King needs to wrap this up soon.

George

Dec 29, 2024

It’s just odd. Why build up a villain like the sovereign and have the take down be like this? Also, to think that the sovereign wouldn’t have the chimp lobotomized is silly. And I’m fine with silly in comics, if it fits your narrative. When I was reading the issue with Diana being starved and having a glass of wine poured over her head, my take was that this wasn’t a silly book. Also, Diana using all allies in the arsenal is enjoyable. But The sovereign would do the same and it would make it more interesting if he did. Showing Diana playing chess and the sovereign playing incompetent is lazy.

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George - Dec 29, 2024

Also, Good but inadequate use of Clark Kent.

daspidaboy

Dec 21, 2024

art was good. But again for my Absolute Wonder Woman issue, the reason why I am not a fan of Tom King's writing for Wonder Woman is that when he writes out Wonder Woman's thoughts it is SO boring and dry. It's not complicated like Simon Spurrier's Flash, but the wordings feel so stiff, stale, and lifeless. Wonder Woman thoughts are Odious and banally and veracity, and she quotes people in her own thoughts. The exposition takes up half the page, and Tom King making Detective Chimp quirky during the conversation with Soverign just falls flat because the flow isn't smooth which makes it seem Tom King is trying extra hard. The plot and pacing of the run jumps around and there's no flow so I tend to forget what's going on in the previous issu e. Maybe it's better if I read it in trades. But overall, I think I am going to drop this book. It's not for me. I'm not a big fan of Tom King due to his work on Batman and Heroes in Crisis, which is a shame. Because I think his earlier books were better, and although a few of his modern books aren't bad. He's not my type of writer. more

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DILLON - Jan 4, 2025

agree. Showed promise and I loved the art but each issue feels like a chore.. a job I have to do, something of a chore. Disappointing.

YEARofTheCollector

Apr 17, 2025

I was skeptical when I realized Sampere wasn't on this issue but long and behold, Redondo's art was very clean. Easy to follow and clean. So let's call it a pleasant surprise. I don't know what to say about the story tho. Was it cool to see what Detective Chimp's role was in this war? Yes! Very cool & funny if I may. Also, the bridge to the back-up story and the choice made for telling the Sovereign's origin was a bit annoying if I'm honest. This old fart is supposed to be this regal villain. There was too much telling, not enough showing for my personal liking. Specially for a new villain's origin story. I understand it's all there, in between the panels and the narration. I can piece it together and imagine it, but I rather not. Why take away the opportunity to see it on the pages with talented artists such as Sampere, Morey & Cowles??? more

Quinn

Dec 18, 2024

King doing a riff on Columbo with Detective Chimp could be considered clever, I guess. Except I don’t like Detective Chimp. He is a character from a bygone era, and the child-like humor doesn’t mesh with the more serious WW story. Speaking of WW, King bringing in the chimp really messes with the whole Diana mourning the death of Steve arc, and the bonding with baby arc. King’s writing is so distant. Never in the moment. BuT not liking Detective Chimp is a me thing. Your mileage may vary, and fair enough. But it really is a clash of tones that doesn’t work. Also king of U.S. really strikes me as a riff on Court of Owls. In fairness, exposing the secret king is a Move Batman could do with the court, so fair play to King. Overall the plot just unspools and there is no sense of action or stakes. A mechanical run with no life. Or I could be wrong. The art was nice. more

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mego-joe - Dec 18, 2024

No…you’re right on all points. Diana’s approach is still doing nothing- letting others fight her enemy. Please let it end soon.

Gio

Aug 28, 2025

Not horrible like before, writing was at least bearable and digestible this time around. King is not consistent at all with his themes. Going from WW being tortured in solitary confinement, to being in a jungle to find Cheetah, to creating a baby, to now having a chimp investigating Sovereign and helping Clark expose to the world who Sovereign is. Talk about all over the place thematically speaking. The only cool part is how the chimp is really The Spectre but we only see the Spectre pop his face out in one panel, that's it... I was unfortunately correct in my prediction early on that the Sovereign's motivation is lame and as simple as "he's a sexist mean white guy" because his father who was king before wanted Sovereign's sister to become next heir, and Sovereign murdered his father to prevent "a woman from taking his rightful place." That's the big deal. Not the fact that America has been under the secret control of some secret society using a black lasso of lies going all the way back to our founding fathers which in itself is stupid. Like wouldn't you need to have someone tied to the lasso the whole time to be under control like how the lasso of truth works? Anyone who has some knowledge of American history will laugh at this premise because Tom King at one point puts it as "The Sovereign had the Founding Fathers believe they were running a democracy." This is retarded because the Founding Fathers ended up pretty fractured on what their vision for America was. Hello, Federalist and Anti Federalist? Jefferson vision against Hamilton vision. Jefferson and Adams going head to head over the Alien and Sedition act. John Adams being fervently against any idea of democracy because of what was unfolding in France (the revolution) viewing democracy as "mob rule". You can find this in his letters or also in his biography by David McCullough. There are so many examples of this from James Madison too and many other founding fathers. To just generally paint all of the founders as if they believed in a democracy is treating your viewers like historical illiterates or maybe Tom King is historically illiterate? Democratic Republic, Representative Republic, etc. Democracy was not the accepted word barely used. The art is still great, King just sucks... more