I'll be honest -- I never really followed Wonder Woman. She just never really appealed to me. I read this book because I noticed that my library had just gotten it, and decided to give it a try. Regardless of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they have completely rebooted Wonder Woman, I really liked this graphic novel. The artwork is fantastic, and the coloring is beautiful. There were several pages that I would have liked to have printed out in copies to hang on my wall. I also liked the s...

This serves as a reboot of the WW character.JMS reimagines her and her origins here and we get Diana in her early years starting over and we follow her as she battles people and stops criminals and we pick up with her trying to rescue the rest of the Amazons who have been trapped and fights men, goes to Underworld and battles dead spirits and Cerebrus and then comes back to the world and goes to meet a mom and her son whom she rescued but its when she is attacked by Cerunnos and Minotaur and a f...

Excellent story, great characters, good art, though not a fan of all the male gaze fan service. At one point, Diana has melons for breasts that are easily the size of her head.Now I need Vol. 2!!

"The only way back [to the surface of Earth] is through a passage guarded by the three-headed Cerberus, whose only task it to prevent souls from escaping and does so with a terrible force." -- exposition by Charon, the boatman of Hades who transports the newly dead across the river Styx"Great. Terrific. I love it . . . Isn't anything ever easy?" -- Wonder Woman, literally trapped in Hell without weapons or any means of assistanceOdyssey, Vol. 1 was a great reminder of Wonder Woman's sometimes fo...

I am having a very hard time swallowing this recent retooling of Wonder Woman. I am not sure why it is so hard for people to understand that writing Strong Female Characters is different than strong female characters. The all-caps type, as evidenced here, seems to be all about taking a female character and making her talk, act, and resolve matters like a stereotypical lovechild of Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, and Stallone in a manner I could only imagine as a sweatier, angrier Three Men and a Bab...

I wish I never purchased this book because unfortunately the talent on the title did not meet my expectations. For all the flack JMS took for his alleged sedate Superman story (which I've yet to read) this book is a complete bore-fest that I assume had fewer eyes looking upon it so it fell through the cracks. I didn't mind the controversial costume change since I am sure it won't be too long before WW reverts back to her traditional look and colors, but reading about an amnesiac-like heroine wit...

Loved it!Well, it was a little confusing at first. I thought I was reading a What-If story for a while, but everything gets clearer as the story goes on. Just make sure you also read volume two.Let's face it, Wonder Woman needed a reboot. Even with Gail Simone's wonderful take on her, there were quite a few things that could have benefited from a well done update. While some people were sad or angry to see her old costume go, I thought it was high time to get rid of it. I actually loved her new

J. Michael Straczynski does the impossible - successfully rebooting Wonder Woman. The first volume of the Odyssey introduces us to a familiar yet different Diana. Having grown up away from the destroyed Paradise Island, this tougher, streetwise Wonder Woman finds herself targeted by a group of war dieties. Intent on eliminating all traces of the Amazonian culture, Diana must unravel the secrets of her past and battle for her future. Straczynski is able to craft memorable - if fleeting - threats

For the most part, Odyssey reads like an Elseworlds story. Instead of growing up on Paradise Island, Diana and a handful of Amazons flee when she was a child, escaping from an overwhelming invasion. So her mission becomes one of vengeance instead of peace. The resulting Diana feels younger, more unsettled, and more reckless by far than the one we knew. You know what? I'm cool with this. Comic books should get a nice shake up every ten or twenty years or so, and Diana was due. And this setup was

This book was about a new incarnation of Wonder Woman whose homeland the Paradise Island was destoryed and her mother The Queen Hippolyta was killed by invedars (when Wonder Woman was a child) for some reason because Amazon's lost Aphrodite's favor for some reason... I was like, i think this book would be medicore halfway through but some interesting things happened as the story went on... This new incarnation of Wonder Woman kind of robbed an antique store. She went there with a piece which she...

Got so bored half way through I stopped. I guess there's only a few Wonder Woman stories I actually care about. Has nothing to do with artist/writer, just some strike me as interesting and some don't. This is a snooze fest for me.

I might be in the minority, but this is my favorite WW costume, just saying.It's an interesting idea, and I like the Amazons in here as well as the references to various myths. Diana is well done here, even if sometimes her boobs are too big.

Interesting 21st century version of Wonder Woman while she is a young woman.

This is the first Wonder Woman book I’ve ever read. I didn’t read many comic books as a kid, and—honestly—as an adult, I’ve found the idea of reading WW a bit embarrassing. I hate the original comic book star-spangled cheerleader costume and don’t like the TV version star-spangled swimsuit (a version of which, I think, has been used ever since). My knowledge of Wonder Woman/Diana Prince as a character comes mostly from watching the Lynda Carter series as a kid; and thus my idea of her is of some...

I don't know what I was expecting, but I couldn't get into this one. I felt like I didn't get where she was, why, or that it made sense. Maybe that was the idea, so we could find ourselves at the same time she did, but after 50ish pages of nothing making sense to me and the lecture failing to catch my eye, I decided to stop. There was a lot of jumping between places and moments, and being in a multiverse story this can get fuzzy if not properly grounded... maybe that was what throw me off.Maybe

Sort of a reboot of Wonder Woman, this was not amazing but still a lot stronger than I expected it to be. I felt like there was an opening chapter that was missing, but essentially Diana somehow "remembers" her heritage and gets pulled into defending the few remaining Amazons from a group of mercenaries who are hell-bent on destroying them. I've always had trouble connecting to Diana's millitant attitude and overpowering sense of justification in everything she does, but the story in this part w...

Better than I was expecting. I loved the illustrations and Diana's new outfit. I wish my library had the next one though.

Not exactly digging the revenge-oriented story framework for a heroic goddess of compassion. I realize this is its own version of her story, born from serious trauma and with a younger, more impulsive Diana, I'm just not confident it's well-enough written to pull it off.On the upside, I love the costume change they did here, it's fantastic. And I do like the presence of other Amazons by her side at times (and not just used as cannon fodder). In any case I'm reserving final judgment and giving th...

I'm smitten with new Wonder Woman and this retool is certainly pleasing progress...with qualifications. Princess Diana gets a much needed infusion of kickassery to complete the 21st century makeover that has seen her transformed from 40's, non-inspiring Betty Crocker meets Betty Boop clad in frilly skirt and high heals...yes, I said high heals: …('ooh...I must hurry and stop the bad guys because I’ve got a pot roast in the oven.')...to modern, awe-inspiring Sydney Bristow meets Ellen Riply cl...

I like Straczynski's brief run, mostly because of his take on the Amazons as a persecuted minority. Both this and his parallel run on Superman were completed together with additional scripting help. In this case, the talented Philip Hester comes in on the last script in this collection. Wonder Woman is an effective paramilitary combatant with a more effective costume, i.e., pants! Art duties led by Don Kramer are pleasing enough. A lot of these themes recur in a more sustained way during the Azz...