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A review by cosimareads
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick
5.0
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A COMIC FAN OR WONDER WOMAN FAN TO READ THIS BOOK. Anyone who enjoys graphic novels should give this a go.
My immediate impression:
Each page, ESPECIALLY in Book 1, is an intricate ode to beauty. I could go back and spend hours looking at the detailed drawings of the goddesses, their Amazon tribes, and Olympus. These interpretations are epically strange and awe-inspiring, as befit myths.
After the last page, I feel the same way I did five minutes into reading this volume: This book is everything.
Goddesses with layers of rage, truly EPIC illustrations, and the background Wonder Woman deserves (because no way in hell was Zeus her father) / although this isn't a "Wonder Woman book" as much as a precursor/history of the Amazons, and how they came to be. This is a book about goddesses screaming for justice, and when none is forthcoming, creating their own. It's about the divine Amazons that are created, and the human women who become Amazons because they refuse the roles the world has forced upon them. For a while, they live well. But of course, they end up having to fight for their freedom.
This book was pitched as the first of three, and I hope the next two are forthcoming. I want to live in the Amazons world for as long as I can.
My immediate impression:
Each page, ESPECIALLY in Book 1, is an intricate ode to beauty. I could go back and spend hours looking at the detailed drawings of the goddesses, their Amazon tribes, and Olympus. These interpretations are epically strange and awe-inspiring, as befit myths.
After the last page, I feel the same way I did five minutes into reading this volume: This book is everything.
Goddesses with layers of rage, truly EPIC illustrations, and the background Wonder Woman deserves (because no way in hell was Zeus her father) / although this isn't a "Wonder Woman book" as much as a precursor/history of the Amazons, and how they came to be. This is a book about goddesses screaming for justice, and when none is forthcoming, creating their own. It's about the divine Amazons that are created, and the human women who become Amazons because they refuse the roles the world has forced upon them. For a while, they live well. But of course, they end up having to fight for their freedom.
This book was pitched as the first of three, and I hope the next two are forthcoming. I want to live in the Amazons world for as long as I can.