Seriously what a piece of trash. Everything about it was the opposite of what stands for. From the sexist origin revision that derives her powers/strength from man, to the "women are harpies" & "lesbians are hot pieces of ass" stereotypes, down to the Fat Amy knockoff sorority girl who Diana befriended. Just awful, which sucks cause it could've been so good.

The Wonder Woman Earth One graphic novel completes the main DC Comics trinity that Morrison, at one time or another has revitalized by merging various of aspects of each characters from their storied pasts. This revitalization was done with Superman in All-Star Superman and Morrison had lengthy run on Batman that gave us Damian Wayne, Batman R.I.P., and Batman Inc.. The writer has also defined the Justice League for a generation with a seminal run on JLA. Now, it's the turn of the third JLA co-l...

Whilst Morrison's take is imperfect in many ways, he does the most important thing right, and that's making Diana a likeable protagonist. There's just something innately charming about Wonder Woman which manages to lift Morrison's rather indistinct origin retelling. With plenty of comedic moments, beautiful art and clear potential for the future instalments, this is a solid beginning to Wonder Woman's Earth One run.

Back in the early 1940’s, William Marston and his wife, Elizabeth created Wonder Woman as proto-feminist icon – exhibiting force, strength and power – not de rigueur in terms of female assets back in the day – but made her more palatable by making her a heroic do-gooder babe. The Marston’s undercut their Amazonian champion by self-doubts… …and lots of images of bondage and submission – activities that, along with a polygamous lifestyle – the Marston’s actively embraced. Wonder Woman isn’t the fi...

This was a dissapointment for me on every level. I was not a fan of the artwork (it was not bad, but not to my tastes), the panels are all over the place with the floating Fates putting their 2 pence in ever few pages. The one part I did like was the mixing cultures and the Amazons are not just stuck with in the dark ages, they are technologically advanced. However this was not enough to make me like it.This comic seem to get the have gotten Batman Vs Superman treatment where they used too many

I've never really liked Wonder Woman and had yet to read a WW comic I liked, until this one. She's never appealed to me, with her Greek mythology, punchy attitude, and morality even more rigid than Superman's. And yet, Morrison makes her interesting even without much fighting. If that's what you're looking for, well, maybe you'll get it in volume 2. But volume 1 focuses on her origin on Paradise Island. While it isn't exactly action-oriented, I somehow found it fast paced and read it furiously,

These Earth One books have generally been great and the Wonder Woman one is no exception. Grant Morrison has incorporated all of William Moulton Marston's (the creator of Wonder Woman) weird sexual predilections into the Amazonian culture. Yannick Paquette's art is beautiful, settling in somewhere between Adam Hughes and Kevin Nowlan.Received an advance copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was fine. Not as great as Batman E1 or as good as Superman E1 but better than Teen Titans E1.

So… where do I even begin with this one? I requested Wonder Woman: Earth One from NetGalley because I LOVE Wonder Woman. Both her and Batman are my favourite superheroes, but Wonder Woman gets a sad lack of attention from DC. Thankfully, with her new movie coming out, DC is increasing their Wonder Woman output, including finally publishing this long awaited volume from popular author Grant Morrison. Unfortunately, I was really disappointed in his take on my favourite character, and I like this v...

This was kind of weird. It was a skewed version of the Wonder Woman origin story, but instead of their patron goddess being Hera, it's Aphrodite. You can imagine how that could change a few things. It has a lot more overt sapphic tones than I've seen with Wonder Woman (but hardly surprising or shocking). I mean its a Utopian all female society, so why wouldn't the women pair up together as partners and lovers? I was fine with that. I think some of their rituals were on the verge of kinky if I'm

I was looking forwards to this Wonder Woman story by Grant Morrison. Unfortunately, it did not meet my expectations. The story is not a bad one, but neither is it the "big picture" type of plot that I have come to expect from Grant Morrison.The story starts out with Hercules (is he the same Hercules that we see in later DC time lines?) forcing himself on Hippoloyta, Queen of the Amazons. Hippoloyta frees herself and the Amazonians. After agreeing to a deal with Aphrodite the Amazonians settle on...

Seriously, what is it with Wonder Woman comics, are they supposed to suck or am I missing something actually good here? Another attempt at reimagining an iconic character, but to no avail at doing something interesting nor engaging. In addition to all that, this book reeks of PC culture.Unfortunately, only the art by Yanik Paquette shines here. 1/5

The weakest “Earth-One” book so far. Creative Team:Writer: Grant MorrisonIllustrator: Yanick PaquetteLettering: Todd Klein NOT SO WONDER(FUL) BOOK In case you doesn’t know, the Earth-One book are graphic novels by DC Comics, presenting classic characters, setting a new origin, redesigning the characters, including new ones, using a parallel dimension, known as “Earth One”.I already read the two volumes of Batman: Earth-One, which both are truly great; and the three volumes of Superman: Eart

A disappointment, especially when reading it on the heels of DC's really good two-volume Batman: Earth One. (I know there were different crews responsible for each title, but come on . . .) I would love to write a great review, but there was just too much weirdness and mood whiplash.

I've read lots of negative reviews about this volume here on Goodreads, but this was for me a funny retelling, decent and deliberately provocative, of classic version Wonder Woman comics from her Golden Age creator William Moulton Marston, filled with cheesy weirdness, ridiculous bondage scenes, and so far different from her more famous and recent ultimate warrior woman incarnation.Visionary author Grant Morrison made something similar previously in his long run on DC's Caped Crusader and it wor...

This is a very difficult review to write, mostly because on the surface, I generally enjoyed the book and loved the art - however - I have some pretty major problems with it too. First off, there seems to be a huge focus on body shaming. Female characters who don't look like Amazons are constantly remarked upon, and this made me very uncomfortable. Secondly, I couldn't help but think that the depiction of Paradise Island is what Grant Morrison thinks a female-only utopia would be like. And I thi...

While I appreciate the flashback trial testimony structure and I enjoyed the new ideas involving the mixture of science and magic on Paradise Island, this was pretty unremarkable. None of the characters were compelling at all and I struggled to identify even the slightest bit of motivation for Diana to leave the island beyond just obnoxious teen angst and boredom. Overall, she seems pretty damn useless actually. Add to the fact that there was a major missed opportunity in barely using Medusa as

Ugh.So, basically, you may have seen Anne's review (link to a web archive, original review was taken down) of this piece of trash. If you haven't, you've got to read it. It's all true, folks. I don't want to bother with full review of this shitty comic, especially since Anne did such a thorough and wonderful job with it, but I just want to add a couple of things.There are a lot of apologists for this book who state that you should know the complete history of Wonder Woman to appreciate all the i...

Sooo Wonder Woman is going to reshape man's world by waltzing in in her vulva jet and body shaming all the women? Let's not forget to have a lesbian orgy in the middle of all this! I can't tell if Morrison is honestly trying to misrepresent the feminist concepts from which Wonder Woman was born, or just... ugh what is this book even trying to be?Oh right. It's an origin story. Because if there's one thing superhero stories--especially DC Comics superhero stories need to do, it's remind you of wh...

I’ve been looking forward to this book since I first heard about it at least a couple of years ago now - Grant Morrison reuniting with his Seven Soldiers/Batman Inc. artist Yanick Paquette for a Wonder Woman original graphic novel? Score! Was it worth the wait? Absolutely – it was positively Wonder-ful! Paradise Island lies hidden away, a utopian all-female society of immortally youthful Amazons led by their Queen Hippolyta. But her daughter Diana is restless – 3000 years is a long time to spend...