- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (Mar 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401201970
- ISBN-13: 978-1401201975
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 1.1 x 25.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #321,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
All hail the Warrior Princess!,
By Devlin Tay (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals (Paperback)
Decades before Xena: Warrior Princess was even a twinkle in Sam Raimi's eye, there was Wonder Woman. Created in 1940 by Dr. William Moulton Marston (a Harvard-trained psychologist with a law degree and a PhD who also invented the lie detector) to be an inspiration for women everywhere, Wonder Woman remains the world's most recognizable female superhero, thanks largely to Lynda Carter's humorous but respectful portrayal of this feminist (and gay) icon in the 1976-1979 hit TV series. Together with Superman and Batman, Wonder Woman has retained her iconic status as one of DC Comics' three flagship characters through much of the 20th century. However, as a monthly comic, Wonder Woman had become something of a joke by the 1980s - no one really knew how to handle such a strong female character that Dr. Marston had intended to inspire women. In fact, Wonder Woman was treated with much indignity when she was first made a secretary(?!?) in the Justice League of America in the 1960s, stripped of her powers in the 1970s, and increasingly had her character defined by her on again, off again relationship with air force pilot Steve Trevor. Something had to be done, and one of the most acclaimed comic book artists alive today, George Perez, volunteered his services. Wonder Woman was spectacularly relaunched in 1987. "Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals" collects the first seven issues of George Perez's work on Wonder Woman and retells the origin of the princess of the Amazons, drawing inspiration from the rich fountainhead of fantasy that is Greek mythology. Born to the Queen of the Amazons, granted superhuman powers by their patron goddesses, and trained to be a warrior from childhood, Diana of Themyscira uses all her skills to promote the peaceful ideals of Gaia, the Earth Goddess, and to protect the innocent. In her first adventure away from her sheltered existence on Paradise Island, Diana must stop the mad war god Ares and his sons, Deimos and Phobos, from starting a nuclear holocaust that threatens to destroy all of earth. For someone like me who had loved Greek mythology from a very young age, George Perez's Wonder Woman was an absolute joy to read. Five stars and two thumbs up from me.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Five star art, two star writing.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals (Paperback)
First of all, George Perez is about as good a comic artist as you will ever find. There are only a handfull of living grandmasters whom I rank alongside him (Walt Simonson, Jim Starlin, maybe John Byrne on his good days).After the New Teen Titans, Perez's Wonder Woman run stands as his most notable achievement in the craft (Personally, I think his early Justice League of America run is his best work, but that's me.). Looking again at his run on Wonder Woman, I have a few immediate reactions: first of all, the story hasn't aged as well as I thought it would. The political inuendo is comically outdated by today's standards, with the story subtly attacking US policies that just a few years later would rid the world forever of the evil empire. But the writers didn't know that at the time, so they used the conventional wisdom that the US military buildup would destroy the world instead of liberating it from the leftist doctrines that hate free will. But keep in mind that all this is just the plot. It manifests itself through politically-naive mis-portrayals of eighties-era events around the would, through cardboard caricitures filling military uniforms instead of three-dimensional characters and through the utterly-impossible-to-reason concept that eighties US foreign policy was playing into the hands of the God of War. Where it doesn't manifest itself is in the execution of the plot, which is a fairly straightforward action adventure romp. Despite giving a nod to the feelgood virtues of pacifism, Wonder Woman proves to be vicious in combat against Ares' servants, to a degree that Superman or even Batman have never matched. That could have come across as hypocrisy, but instead it plays more as the pragmatism that has always defined soldiers to this day. In this book, Steve Trevor is a wuss, but Diana is someone that a military man will recognize, once she's dirtied up in battle enough. And, as another reviewer pointed out, this book DOES ironically have a strong pro-life message that flies in the face of the modern feminism also found herein. Basically, this Wonder Woman is just a murdered fetus given new life. That's pretty cool, when you think about it, and very ballsy of DC Comics in an otherwise left-slanted comic.
4.0 out of 5 stars
George Perez showed what Wonder-Woman can be...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals (Paperback)
In 1987, George Perez reintroduced Wonder-Woman to comics and made her a charecter with rights and merits that made her as much a joy to write comics on and with greater possibilties to be a multi-dimensional heroine, greater then even Superman or Batman in many respects. In these early Perez stories, Wonder-Woman's cultural background is explored in greater detail with her origins on Paradise Island and coming from a culture where art, science, and technology had developed with a deep respect for both justice and with nature. It is from this background that Wonder-Woman jouneys to the rest of the world and tries to battle injustice and those forces which would bring the human race to their knees. George worked on these stories for about four years and it still remains as the best stories done on the character, Would make a great movie too. Are you listening, Warner Brothers?
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