Diana is still trying to find the way back home but there might be more important matters at hand once that she reunites with Steve Trevor.
Some things worked here and others not so much.
Greg Rucka offers a new chapter from The Lies segment to focus especifically on the ramifications from recent issues with Diana and Steve together once again and Barbara Minerva being back to normal. The plot is satisfactory for the most part during the early pages with some aspects of the mystery behind Themyscira's disappearance being slowly revealed while the role of Barbara becoming more and more dubious during the course of the story.
The problem comes with the relationship between Diana and Steve. Rucka wants to give readers the idea that the relationship between Superman and Wonder Woman was a mistake and Diana and Steve belong to each other and is just... awkward. I don't even care that much about Diana's last relationship but the way how she talks to Steve about love is simply unnatural and not at all like two people who supposedly love each other interact. Even if we consider Diana's own nature might cause this, Steve doesn't particularly act like a normal person either. It seems like Rucka wants to force a romance between these two way too hard and doesn't know how to do it in a logical nor powerful manner.
Liam Sharp returns to art duties and his work still looks quite good while some of his character models can be a bit off at times, the overall style is beautiful though.
Not sure about this one but it pretty much follows the same route as the rest issues from the present time segment.
Diana comes off so stiff and cold. She speaks so...unnatural. And the character is not herself but being used as Rucka's mouthpiece which doesn't serve her character well. She continues to come across very watered down and weak in this messy attempt to retcon. Steve and Diana are being forced out of the blue and we are to accept they are meant to be. They do know this guy hasn't been relevant for 30 plus years so why the rush to do this so quickly? Other than mandate because of the movie. The jist of what she said about love and romance makes no sense and seems pretty silly. Not for the Wonder Woman Rucka use to write and not for the one we knew in the new 52. This Rebirth Wonder Woman is pretty much dragging with nothing really that interesting to say about the character.
ResponderBorrarYeah, I don't really mind the romance between Diana and Steve but I do wish things happened more naturally.
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