Synopsis: Wonder Woman defends Nemesis from a direct assault by Hippolyta (!?)
Much fighting ensues. XD She rescues Nemesis from falling and flies her to where Batman and Black Canary are.
Suddenly Hippolyta and the Amazons attack again! :O
Nemesis tackles Hippolyta and in the confusion pretends to be her in order to get his hands on her sekrit box weapon. :o
He opens the box and giant bees pop out o_O
For no logical reason, Nemesis stays to fight the bees even tho Superman and Green Lantern are there and Wonder Woman tells Nemesis not to. >.>;; He gets stung and is dying. >.> Batman tries to force an Amazon to save him but finds out that the only cure is on Themyscara!
In anger, Wonder Woman beats up Hippolyta and threatens to kill her but stops and gives her the sword asking her if she would kill her own daughter to win the war.
Review: Wow xD That's all there is to that 22 page story! :o There were SO many pages of just... fighting. XD
Also Amazons Attack keeps telling us to read WW to find out what's going on and now... we learn nothing XD
In Amazons Attack, Wonder Woman happens on Batman who is tending to Nemesis and Batman tells her what's going on and that the cure is on Themyscara.
HERE, Wonder Woman is the one who tends to Nemesis and then flies off angrily to fight her mom, so there's no chance for Batman to talk to her. Esp since AFTER she left, Batman found out where the cure was!
Nemesis is a moron =_=;; Wonder Woman told him not to fight the bees, and there are INVULNERABLE SUPERHEROES fighting them and he still has to go do it. SMRT. And I'm sick of Jodi Picoult shoving the Nemesis/Wonder Woman OMGROMANCE down our throats >:\ They have NO chemistry and Wonder Woman dotes over him like a lovesick schoolgirl!
Also apparently killing innocent civilians isn't enuf to have Wonder Woman go Super Saiyan and defeat her mom, but the stinging of Nemesis is! XD
Hippolyta seems STRANGELY ACCESSIBLE considering she's the leader of this war. >.>;;; She's RIGHT THERE fighting in the faces of Superman, Batman, Black Canary, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. XD
*sighs*
I'm glad that Picoult is leaving this book :\
So glad. >:\
Oh and this wonderful line where Wonder Woman talks to Nemesis about Everyman:
Wonder Woman: So, who's this famous Frank Miller fan that's working for circe?
Nemesis: Not Frank.. ARTHUR. He calls himself Everyman, and he can turn into anyone.
o_O
Frank Miller fan? :o Arthur Miller fan? o_O Is this a joke about Arthur Miller, the playwright? o_O;;;
If it is, it flew over me. :( How is Everyman a fan of his? Why would Wonder Woman even make that comparison if she doesn't even KNOW WHO ARTHUR MILLER IS?
Since Frank and Arthur aren't at all similar names that one might get mixed up UNLESS a Frank Miller is also a famous name, that seems to imply that Frank Miller exists in the DCU. =_=
XD
But that's not the point XD The point is that Jodi Picoult thought she was being clever, and at least to me, it just came off as trying too hard for an in-joke from somebody who doesn't know much about the DCU. :\
OH!!! OH!!! Before he faints, Nemesis calls Wonder Woman, "Diana", which Wonder Woman takes to mean that Nemesis figured out her sekrit identity. >.>;;; Ummm.. HOW!?
THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT WONDER WOMAN'S NAME IS DIANA!
They just dunno that she's taken up a new identity as Diana PRINCE! Nemesis never SAID Prince, just Diana.
That doesn't mean nething!
This is why I dun think a writer with no knowledge of the DCU and apparently who is not even willing to do basic research on it should be writing such an important book. :(
*flails*
If Jodi was still staying on the book, this is where I officially leave the Wonder Woman train. >:| But since she's leaving, I'm going to stay for Simone :D
Angelwings Rating: 1 Frank Miller out of 5 Arthur Millers
Recommendation: Ignore this issue >:| Even for followers of Amazons Attack, this issue contradicts things in that one PLUS it's just one long fight scene >:|
11 angel hugs! :D:
This is why I dun think a writer with no knowledge of the DCU and apparently who is not even willing to do basic research on it should be writing such an important book.
It also means that the editor messed up, too. The editor is supposed to catch that kind of thing and get it fixed.
I took one look at the To Be Continued at the end and decided to let it stay on the shelves. I'll pick up the book again when Gail takes over.
Grrrghhh, what a waste of tiem and money this was.
Wait, wait, wait...Superman and Green Lantern are right there with Hippolyta and the war's still going on? That's what I don't get. Why Superman just doesn't fly up to Hippolyta at super-speed, wrap a lightpole around her or something, take her to jail and "Yay! He stopped the war in four seconds!"
None of the Amazons have Wonder Woman powers, not even Hippolyta. So I just don't get this story at all.
Oh, and to answer your question from the Teen Titans review below, apparently this "war" has been going on for "days," which is, as you point out--weird. Wonder Girl's mom sent her a letter? In the mail? So the U.S. government had time to build camps, round up people, throw them in the camps, and have them write letters which are then mailed to people in all this time, and the entire JLA can't take 1,000 women with swords and monsters down?
Hippolyte does have some degree of superstrength, right? Not on the level of Diana, of course, but enough to fill in as Wonder Woman for a spell. Though I think she wore one of them strength girdles or something.
I cannot believe they brought back the Diana Prince secret ID and thought that was going to fly. I mean, it would be one thing if Diana had like a cloaking spell or something on her so that she lo oked like Rhea Perlman. But she just looks like Wonder Woman with glasses on. I think a master of disguise like Tom Tresser would see through that little bit of subterfuge, don't you?
The Diana Prince alias is actually less believable than the Clark Kent one. At least Superman wears baggy clothes and acts like a dork when he's in civilian guise. And the name "Clark Kent" isn't anything like "Superman" or "Kal-El"
Diana Prince is just as beautiful and statuesque as Wonder Woman, wears skintight outfits that show off her physique, acts confident and heroic all the time, and has practically the same name.
It would be like if Superman chose a disguise that consisted of wearing red shorts and a blue tank top, spent his free time beating people up and rescuing cats out of trees, and went by the pseudonym of "Stu Perlman"
In short- I'm glad I dropped this title after 4 issues. What an embarrassment. Bring back George Perez. He's the only one that got it right.
Caleb! :D
The war can't be going on for days! Dun Amazons and other heroes have to SLEEP?
The funny thing about this war is that there's a front line and nothing else! XD So the Amazons can't retreat behind their lines and regroup or nething b/c they HAVE no lines! It's just one big battle royal in Washington. >:|
And yus! BATMAN, SUPERMAN, GREEN LANTERN are ALL there with Hippolyta, and none of them decide to catch her XD
Despite that Batman took down Artemis without breaking a sweat in the Loeb Batman/Superman/Supergirl run XD
Does Green Lantern's ring no longer work on WOMEN or something? XD Maybe he's afraid of them :O
The letter makes ZERO sense. XD And it's a plot device invented by Beechen to make his story work, so I blame him XD The camps sprang up over night and they just very quickly rounded everybody in there. But the US postal service is apparently very very very dedicated!
For THAT matter, how did the letter REACH Wonder Girl? Wonder Girl was staying with Supergirl cuz she was mad at the Titans. How does her mom magically know that? :o
And why would the US government, after going to all the trouble of locking women up for being threats, let one of them send a letter to her daughter who has super powers? o_O;;;
Brilliant XD
John, I was wondering that too! Clark is one thing. He has different mannerisms and voice than Superman and nobody thinks that Superman HAS a sekrit identity, they think he's just Superman and he goes back to his fortress and night and that's it. XD
It'd be like if Superman's sekrit identity was a buff confident police officer named Kal Johnson. >.>;;
Spelt the same way too! XD
OMG, nobody knows where Diana went, but then a sekrit agent named Diana Prince who LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HER shows up!
There can't be that many women in the world that have a body shape like Diana's. :\
Not many men for Superman either, but Superman wears baggy clothes and slouches XD
Yeah guys. Clark Kent is newpspaper reporter. Even the real famous ones, the ones that right books and go on talk shows, aren't exactly memorable looking people.
Diana was a superhero and ambassador who's face was everywhere for years. Clark Kent was a nobody, but Diana was a celebrity. And also, her entire job seems to revolve around catching Wonder Woman. I really liked the scenes where she'd be standing in a room full of people who are trained to catch Wonder Woman, looking at pictures of Wonder Woman on their monitors, and Diana's right there.
John,
I don't think Polly (easier to spell; I'm not trying to imply she and I are tight or anything) has super-strength at all, but she did used to wear the girdle that Diana's lasso is made out of in this continuity, and I think that gave her superstrength...? But now I'm doubting myself. At any rate, I'm pretty sure Superman could clean her clock.
Ami,
Yeah, this issue started with the news guy saying "It was only days ago, but it feels like a lifetime..." I guess that's why it seems like it's taking the heroes so long to beat up the Amazons. Superman's always just about to catch Polly and then he's like, "Oh man, I have to get to work. I'll be back in eight hours guys!" It sure doesn't feel like it's been days though; like, has Batman just been sitting there on his lap top for DAYS?
The letter. Well see, Dr. Sandsmark used to date Jason Blood. And he gave her...um...a bracelet. A magical bracelet! That he got from Merlin. And with it whenever you write your daughter a letter she will automatically get it. No matter where you both are.
Yep, thats right. A wizard did it!
The Frank Miller/Arthur Miller jokes is just lame. Plus, along with the "can't put gas in a car" scene, it makes Wonder Woman seem doubly stupid, which I seriously doubt was the intention.
I can imagine a young comic book fan knowing about Frank Miller and not Arthur (who is beyond arguing more important to American literature and letters than would-be tough guy funny book man Frank will EVER be) but not a full-grown woman of the world in her late 20s or 30s.
If she's pop culture savvy enough to know Frank, it stands to reason she'd know about Arthur. He was married to Marilyn Monroe, for corn's sake! He wrote "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible." Just those two plays alone put him lightyears ahead of Frankie-Frank and his little crayon scratchings.
Dumb joke that makes Wonder Woman look dumber. Great job, DC!
This whole war makes no sense at all, not from an Amazonian point of view and definitely NOT from a JL one.
The whole League is there, for crying out loud! How hard could it be to stop a few rampaging amazons?
I guess DC is trying a little too hard to spice this year's plots by making too much drama out of nothing.
Also, if GL is there, is this before or after the Sinestro Corps' Special?
What really hurts is, I loved that damn cover. (>_<) SO I bought it. It still hurts to open it. There a few very beautiful pages, but the story is made of so much stupid at this point, it just hurts.
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