(B+) 76% | GoodNotes: A rōnin tale of finesse and survival. It's Old World and folklore focused, insulated from America and its superheroes.

Wha...?Nooooo. This was definitely not what I was hoping for, especially after reading the very cool pre-reboot Wonder Woman: Odyssey, Volume 1.I was disappointed after seeing her appearance in Justice League, Vol. 1: Origin, but I've been holding out hope that Azzarello was going to take WW in a different direction. Well, to be fair, he certainly went in a different direction. Her entire backstory is changed. She finds out that she wasn't crafted from clay and brought to life by her mother's pr...

I did not expect to like it that much! I am definitely going to continue reading this series.

Wonder Woman!!I'm an unapologetic fan-girl of this character. Growing up my sisters and I would get thrown out of the house to play. (My mom would have gone nuts with us in the house she said) and we would head outside and pretend to be characters from TV shows we adored. Charlie's Angels, Bionic Woman and always Wonder Woman. My clumsy arse broke my collar-bone one day on a Wonder Woman adventure. But hey, those are the knocks. Wonder Woman was and is bad-ass.In this book Wonder Woman AKA D...

The premise of Vertigo was to be, in founding editor Karen Berger's words, "different, smarter, and edgier" than the rest of DC. Oh, and, no superheroes: superheroes are greasy kid stuff. We're so much beyond that now. We're so much cleverer than the people who thought up patriotic heroes in brightly colored costumes. They probably hadn't even read Marcuse. Having an imprint founded on this editorial philosophy was a mistake, and here's the proof. Put a writer raised on this attitude on a superh...

Not a detailed origin story per se, but one that contains enough context to show who this version of Wonder Woman is and what she stands for. The plot is solid with a lot of room for expansion as the series continues. Whilst the story is decent, some of the fights are a little boring, carried only by the captivating art. Enjoyable without being overly impressive, there's tons of potential for later instalments.

It looks like I may be in the minority here. There are things that I did like about this book. The art is better than I expected from the cover, and I like how Diana is generally portrayed. But there are a few things that irritated me.For one, Diana's origin story has been changed. She's no longer sculpted of clay by her mother. No, Diana is now another of Zeus's bastard children. Her origin story has been consistent for seventy years. If you're going to make such a big change to such a long-sta...

Well this was certainly something else. I have to be honest, I don’t know Greek mythology all that well and I only have a passing understanding of Wonder Woman’s origin. Of course, I did read Wonder Woman comics as a kid, when and where I could find them, but she was never one of the characters I focused heavily on. I got this for my wife as a gift and she recommended that I read it as well. It’s pretty good. The origin story has been retconned, which won’t be to everybody’s liking. Despair not,...

Diana, Amazonian Princess aka Wonder Woman, finds herself protecting a young woman impregnated by Zeus from his vengeful wife Hera. But Wonder Woman is about to find out her own dubious parentage, a secret her mother Hippolyta has kept from her for years.I got this based on the strength of Geoff Johns' portrayal of WW in "Justice League: Origin" where she came across as gung-ho, fun, and guile-less in a charmingly quirky way - Brian Azzarello however has taken that characterisation and thrown it...

I can't believe I actually enjoyed a Azzarello book. So this is the New 52 relaunch of Wonder Woman, and for the most part, it's a pretty fun ride. Right at the start this poor girl, Zola, is being chased around in her underwear by some killers. So while it was scary and exciting I couldn't help but feel we're going to get a lot of Azzarello edgy right off the bat. However, I will say once Wonder Woman does make her appearance, it becomes basically a protect mission of Zola and her baby while al...

Brian Azzarello does not know who Wonder Woman is? DC got the movie spot on. This book was a horrible mess from beginning to end. The art was dark, WW was killing left and right. WW is pure and there was no purity here. Just because she is a god, do they have to now set it all around gods. Batman is the underworld, he's Hades and his story should be dark. WW is the light and should not be dark. She steps into the dark to bring the light. Why can't DC find their way? This was so disappointing and...

Brian Azzarello's run on Wonder Woman is consistently entertaining. This series is top 2 in my list of DC's New 52 titles, with Snyder's Batman on the top spot and Geoff Johns' Aquaman run as my third. This first volume introduces Diana and her roots, both as a goddess and an amazon warrior without compromising its story quality and not falling into the "another origin story" trap. Hell yeah Wonder Woman!It feels like Azzarello is really cooking a genuine modern Greek mythology story, seamlessly...

Whoa!Not sure what I expected but this surpassed those expectations with interest.I’m sure comic book fans back in 2011, when DC rolled out its New 52 lines, were a little surprised to see Brian Azzarello tasked with penning Wonder Woman, he of the noir crime background. I’ve enjoyed his work on Batman but other than that only knew of him by reputation.Azzarello dealing out Amazons and Greek mythology?YES!He takes a page from Neil Gaiman, Kevin Hearne and Rick Riordan and writes this entry in WW...

I'm not really a fan of Azzarello's work i'm not sure what it is, but his writing never clicks with me, or his characterisations always seem a bit off. The only exception to this being Europa which i really liked so i thought i'd give his writing another go maybe it had grown on me. But nah son, and i wanted to like this i know a lot of you that have read it really loved it and its get recommended to me all the time but it was boring and then it ends on a cliffhanger and i was done. Really liked...

Wonder Woman, New 53 Series Ratings: Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood: Blood: ★★Wonder Woman, Volume 2: Guts: Lost Interest in Series— Can't decide if comics are for me or not.___│Blog│Instagram│Twitter│Tumblr│