Chanel's Profile

Delivers brilliantly as a thrilling arc opener, plunging the team straight into the dangers of the Brazilian Amazon. The ultimate highlight of the issue is Yara Flor's development.

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 i s 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

A solid ending to a miniseries that I wish would've had more of an impact. It doesn't really have much of a purpose besides adding more commentary on a status quo that Tom King doesn't fully take advantage of in his Wonder Woman run. The commentary is good but you wonder if it's worth a six issue miniseries where things more or less end where they started, status quo wise.