My tweets

• Mon, 18:09: "The best people in the US for all those jobs [Trump] has to fill"? Come ON. *headdesk* #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:14: Marked as to-read: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison https://t.co/YhvJp87Fby
• Mon, 18:18: Ben Carson is unqualified to be a gov't dogcatcher, much less lead Housing and Urban Development. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:22: Ben Carson probably doesn't even know what Section 8 is. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:32: Al Gore, come on. Donald Trump and Bill Clinton aren't even in the same universe. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:37: The declining cost of solar energy is another reason why coal is NOT COMING BACK. Sorry, coal miners. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:38: Donald Trump just fed White Working Class people a royal con, making them think coal has any future. And they fel for it. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 18:58: The thing is, though, no matter what the officer BELIEVES about a threat, that doesn't mean his belief is true in the real world. #inners
• Mon, 19:01: Police officers literally hold people's lives in their hands. They should face MORE scrutiny in shootings, not less. #inners #uniteblue
• Mon, 19:02: ALL officer-involved shootings should be investigated by an outside authority, not Internal Affairs. #inners #uniteblue

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The Wonder of...Ehhh

3 of 5 stars

This is apparently yet another reboot (or "reimagining") of Wonder Woman. Most of us know the basic story, of course. So my goal in reading something like this is to see if the writer can find something different, add some new tweak to the legend. Looking at it from this angle, the results were definitely mixed. 

 

First, the upside: writer Grant Morrison seems to have a good grasp on the characters of Diana, Hippolyta and the other women of Paradise Island. Diana is very young (she's described by one man as a "teenage swimsuit model who can benchpress a Jeep") and at the beginning of her journey. Needless to say, she gets quite a shock when she first sets foot in "man's world." Etta Candy has become Beth Candy, who is a larger-than-life delight. This writer, at least, does not sugarcoat the obvious: with no men to be found, the women of Paradise Island can and do form relationships with one another. Queen Hippolyta is a complex figure, wanting to protect the daughter she created out of her anger and the seed of Hercules.

 

The most drastic change is Steve Trevor: he is now African-American. As such, he states that "like a lot of people in 'man's world,' my ancestors were enslaved and persecuted by men with too much power." He does not want to see that fate happen to the women of Amazonia. But Diana, the daughter of Hercules, is, as her mother describes her, "proud, restless and rebellious." The final panel shows her taking her robot airplane and setting it down in the middle of a town square, coming out on the wing and saying, "Hola, Man's world--it's time we had a talk." 

 

The art is...well. It could be better. It's way too busy in some panels. The pacing of the story seems a bit uneven in spots. I think this reboot shows a lot of potential, but it's not quite there yet.