Comments on: Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1 – Review http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2009/12/04/blackest-night-wonder-woman-1-review/ Weekly Comic Book Review is an online magazine dedicated to providing readers comic book and graphic novel reviews, and commentary on the comic book culture. Mon, 28 May 2012 17:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DS Arsenault http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2009/12/04/blackest-night-wonder-woman-1-review/#comment-3798 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:28:45 +0000 http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/?p=8782#comment-3798 That’s a huge compliment you gave me that you picked up the issue based on my review! Thank you.

You’re right. Rucka is right up there. Have you checked out his work in Detective Comics on Batwoman? Last issue of Detective was *probably* better that this issue of BN:WW, if you like strong female characters. Also, Gail Simone does a brilliant WW, very much in the same vein as Rucka – check out the Genocide arc in WW back issues (I reviewed some of them on this site).

PS: The oath line got me too…

]]> By: SoldierHawk http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2009/12/04/blackest-night-wonder-woman-1-review/#comment-3779 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:12:51 +0000 http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/?p=8782#comment-3779 I picked this one up this week on the strength of this review, and was NOT disappointed. What a brilliant, brilliant issue. Rucka is officially my favorite comic writer working today (okay along with Geoff Johns) between this and Detective Comics. The fact the the writing is not only stellar, but he’s giving the comic world strong, believable female leads just means a ton to me. Its one of those things I never even knew was missing until I pick up an issue like this and think, “THANK YOU GREG RUCKA.”

I think my favorite part of this whole issue, and the moment that (for me) really defined Wonder Woman’s character, was when she tells the two Old Guard soldiers to get to safety, and they say, “no can do ma’am–we took a sacred oath.” Now, faced with this, Batman, Captain America, even Superman, would probably have forced these guys to safety one way or another. Not Wonder Woman. She merely says (something along the lines of) “I cannot argue with that. Dig in, gentlemen, and prepare to face a superior force.”

That completely and totally made my day, both in the characterization of her, and of the soldiers. And then, of course…the moment at the end… “honored dead…”

*Tear*

What an incredible issue. I know #2 will be good, but I don’t think anything could top the emotion or horror I felt at seeing Arlington desecrated like that, or watching Wonder Woman deal with those emotions too. Wow.

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