The Amazons are in danger.
People of Themyscira are trying to have new lives in America but its people and their government will make everything in their power to make them feel out of place and this is when Wonder Woman needs to step in.
Wonder Woman is a character that is hard to grasp, at least for most writers. I have lost count of the many creators that have tried to handle the title with a brand new direction and ultimately fail at either getting what makes Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, or simply don't have a sustainable idea and execution to make readers invested in it (I suppose that the last Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad falls into the latter category) but hey maybe things can change with the new creative team right?! Who is handling this relaunch anyway?
Tom King.
... Yeah, that puts things at doubt already. As most writers when King is good he can be pretty damn good, one of the best even but when he's bad, he sadly can be one of the worst and there's a pattern with his works you see. King is usually at his best when he's handling obscure characters that most people don't know much about and can twist them in whatever way he wants so people wouldn't find anything weird about such characterization but when he tackles more popular protagonists things immediately change and you realize he mostly wants to force such characters in stories that they don't have any reason to be in.
Where does his Wonder Woman run falls into? Well, let's find out.
We open with the idea of Amazons being hunted just for the mere reason of being who they are and yeah, the themes that King is implementing here are pretty obvious from the starts. Sexism, racism and overall discrimination are constant aspects being brought into the story, in fact, those ideas guide the whole plot and there's no better place to execute those ideas than in the country in which xenophobia seems to be the most prominent topic to talk about, America. King's political writing works fine here I believe and there's also a huge emphasis on the government and how it tries to control both the people of the country and the people outside of it, not to mention that the writer is cementing a much bigger antagonist right from the beginning with a good handle at presentation and escalation.
However, I'm sorry but I can't help but feeling that this is another case of King forcing a character into a story he just had in mind. Don't get me wrong, the Amazons allow for this idea to be implemented but it just feels like there's too much focus on those aspects than in the mythology of such race or how it make them unique in the world. For that matter, King's handle of Diana (who appears almost at the end) is okay in his own way but not something I find particularly interesting or in character (especially in terms of how she fights which tries to portray her as something unique which is fine, but ultimately saying very little).
Daniel Sampere handles the art and is very beautiful, a quite vibrant style that depicts great character expressions while following the script as perfectly as it can but the latter is a bit problematic due to King's classic tendencies of fulling each page with narration while letting very little to the art to do the work.
Overall, not a bad beginning per se but a bit worrying, especially because in the long term are where King's stories tend to fall apart. Let's see how it goes.
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