But Wonder Woman Historia takes that a step further. Of course, the audience is never going to lose sight of the fact that Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons is fiction, you can talk about getting lost in a story as much as you want, but you still know you’re reading a comic. However, I love it because it also explicitly calls attention to the artistic intentions of the issue. The purpose of this seems to be to invite readers who are familiar with the Spiral to view Hera as perfect. This spiral is used a number of times throughout Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #2, each time applied to Hera.

The Golden Spiral is sometimes talked about in relation to art as a concrete way to demonstrate, or at least open discussion on, what makes a piece great. Now, with the prayers of the Amazons, she enters the story as a more positive and powerful force, in simpler clothing, directly interacting with her birds. She mostly appeared in her full regalia or symbolically through the presence of birds. In Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1, she was present but detached from the other goddesses’ plans. This splash page reintroduces Hera to the story. WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS #3 (SPOILERS!), Robert Jones, Jr.Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #2 written by Kelly Sue DeConnick drawn by Gene Ha Eckard (ed.), Comic connections: Reflecting on women in popular culture (pp. Wonder Woman: Reading and teaching feminism with an Amazonian princess in an era of Jessica Jones. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (Book Two): Women and Children, Goddesses/Gods and Mortals

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By the end of Book Three, even “born to die” is turned onto itself as a superhero is born into the matriarchy of goddesses and Amazons-although the very real threats of the world and beyond remain ever in the background.īooks 1-3 of Wonder Woman Historia offer a compelling and visually stunning exploration of heroism that is solidly situated in superhero royalty (Wonder Woman among DC’s Big Three), yet this is not predictable superhero story.ĭeConnick along with Jimenez, Ha, and Scott tells stories of dualities and confrontations by turning those dualities around and inviting readers to rethink those tensions in ways that speak to the very real world we walk in today.

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