Wonder Woman is now Queen of the Amazons - but mean old Ares wants to make war, not love! Diana must show, for the third blimmin time now, that love triumphs over hate. Woo… hoo…
This was awful. I rate Grant Morrison highly but he’s fully capable of writing garbage books and Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 3, like Volume 2, is definitely a pile of crap.
The story is completely uninteresting. Everyone Diana goes up against is easily defeated, whether it’s nobodies who want her to show that she’s a worthy Queen or something dumb (a fist fight will definitely prove that) or an army of Iron Man-esque bots. It’s not interesting to watch Wonder Woman effortlessly defeat any obstacle in her way. The message of love not hate is so tedious too given that it’s been the theme of the previous two books and is inanely repeated again here to severely watered-down effect.
Ares and the “bad” male characters couldn’t be more laughably written. They’re the most absurd caricatures of misogynists/alt right figures/incels spouting nonsense like “Destroy!” over and over while Wonder Woman and her side are dignified, wise and always right. Guess which side Morrison wants the reader to side with? It’s amateur-level writing.
To fill up space in this woefully thin story, Diana goes to Hades for no reason. That said, the sequence does look amazing and features the best of Yanick Paquette’s artwork - and his art throughout the book is nothing short of breathtaking. Nathan Fairbairn’s colours are sumptuous too so the book is visually impressive.
Morrison’s story and writing though is amongst his worst and least inspired - it reads like he’s fulfilling a contract obligation. Like Volume 2, Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 3 is a worthless addition to this miniseries and an instantly forgettable finale. The first volume is really good but I recommend abandoning the subsequent two books.
No comments:
Post a Comment