6/22/2023 0 Comments Wonder woman earth one vol 1![]() ![]() All too often, speculative superhero science-fiction is the realm of the dystopia - see Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, and DCeased, just for three recent examples. In the final tally - though my cynicism searched for some shadow, a terrible wink to let us know it had all gone wrong - Morrison sticks to it, positing a path to peacefulness almost too alien to be believed. The authors acknowledge this is not without controversy, but the factors that mitigate those controversies are slight. In all of this, the authors beg the question, what if you knew - knew - that a higher force always had your best interests at heart (because who among us is more trustworthy than Wonder Woman)? If you did, would you slough off the weight of all that decision-making and submit peacefully to the loving authority of another? (We do this already, in ways - when we go into surgery, when we choose representation in government, when we pray to things unseen.) ![]() Though the third volume does not lack for action pieces, it is more philosophical (and at its mid-point, mythological) than the books that came before it. 3 is distinctly their Return of the Jedi - dramatic, with some suspense, but also with enough levity and cuddliness built in that the sense everything will be all right pervades from the start. ![]() If the first two volumes of Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman: Earth One were their Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, then Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. ![]()
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