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    Well, hello Jason! Very interesting issue... Great stuff about Hercules. I kinda miss that he wasn't around AT ALL. But the meeting with Jason was a bit anticlimactic...but maybe it should be just how it was? Looking forward to how this plays out...he seems nice, so far...smiley at least...and very handsome.

    I hope he gets some Wonder Armor that ties to Diana!
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    I've gotta be honest... I didn't like it.

    As a whole I found it to be quite dull and slightly boring. The bits with Blake Hooper were just so yawn-inducing for me (though I read it quickly so I probably missed something important).

    The Steve/Diana dialogue was strange. I liked Diana having a bit of fun with Steve saying he usually saves her (at least I hope that was a joke on her part), but Steve seems to be grossly out of character. I don't like when they have to point out the fact that Steve is a man yet in the stereotypically "feminine" role. It doesn't need to be stated, we as readers already know the role he plays.

    Dr. Peril? A supervillain in the making? Seriously, that name is pretty odd.

    As for Jason, I highly doubt that is the real Jason. If it is, that dialogue at the end was incredibly off, even by comic book standards. Also that mullet has got to go.

    The art was a step down from last issue's, as well.

    I think ultimately, the more I think about it, the more sour I get that they found it a good time to rewind and go back to a New 52 story arc when the whole point of Rebirth is to go back to basics with the characters and stories. Rucka had already established several fantastic stories, yet they're completely gone now (at least for almost a year). What happened to Doctor Cyber? Is Veronica Cale still stewing in her hatred for Diana? Where the heck did Cheetah run off to? Have Dave, Manny, and Chris been completely replaced by Charlie, Sameer, and Chief? There's just so many unresolved threads yet they chose to go with Darkseid War, which didn't seem to be that popular of a story arc to begin with (for the record, I enjoyed it).

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    Thought this was much, MUCH better than the last one. There is still the usual unnatural Robinson dialogue but it was compensated by everything else. The worldbuilding was pretty solid, if you know something about Robinson's work is that he loves to make the supporting cast as interesting as possible and this is clear in Blake and even in Steve's little army (which seems oddly influenced by the movie). Even Steve receive the strongest portrayal he has gotten since, well, pretty much since Rebirth started.

    Solid art as well, intrigued by this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyssane View Post
    I've gotta be honest... I didn't like it.

    As a whole I found it to be quite dull and slightly boring. The bits with Blake Hooper were just so yawn-inducing for me (though I read it quickly so I probably missed something important).

    The Steve/Diana dialogue was strange. I liked Diana having a bit of fun with Steve saying he usually saves her (at least I hope that was a joke on her part), but Steve seems to be grossly out of character. I don't like when they have to point out the fact that Steve is a man yet in the stereotypically "feminine" role. It doesn't need to be stated, we as readers already know the role he plays.

    Dr. Peril? A supervillain in the making? Seriously, that name is pretty odd.

    As for Jason, I highly doubt that is the real Jason. If it is, that dialogue at the end was incredibly off, even by comic book standards. Also that mullet has got to go.

    The art was a step down from last issue's, as well.

    I think ultimately, the more I think about it, the more sour I get that they found it a good time to rewind and go back to a New 52 story arc when the whole point of Rebirth is to go back to basics with the characters and stories. Rucka had already established several fantastic stories, yet they're completely gone now (at least for almost a year). What happened to Doctor Cyber? Is Veronica Cale still stewing in her hatred for Diana? Where the heck did Cheetah run off to? Have Dave, Manny, and Chris been completely replaced by Charlie, Sameer, and Chief? There's just so many unresolved threads yet they chose to go with Darkseid War, which didn't seem to be that popular of a story arc to begin with (for the record, I enjoyed it).
    To be fair, Wonder Woman isn't the only title with a number of unresolved questions going back to Darkseid War. You have the 3 Jokers with Batman, the absent Connor with the Super Family (and Tim Drake), Wally West's absent family (and Iris being ignorant of his existence), Jay Garrick and the Justice Society, Saturn Girl and the Legion of Superheroes...

    But this arc with Diana's long lost brother is a Rebirth Arc. It was established as such at the very beginning of Wonder Woman Rebirth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackalope89 View Post
    But this arc with Diana's long lost brother is a Rebirth Arc. It was established as such at the very beginning of Wonder Woman Rebirth.
    It's pulling things straight from the Darkseid War, though. Myrina Black told Diana about her twin while she died during the New 52, and that's still canon here. Of course him existing has always been part of Rebirth, but the events that led up to her discovering about him are all from the New 52 instead.

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    Pretty good issue for me! It was nice to see a lot of action and down time! We need more of this so she can actually have a social life. It was good to see Jason at the end. I love the “foreign” look he has going on. Hopefully Steve and his oddfellows will give him an up to date haircut.

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    Other than the art (for example, I don't think that's a mullet... it's just wet, slightly longish hair badly drawn) I loved it!

    I'm calling it now: Blake is Zeus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astroman View Post
    Other than the art (for example, I don't think that's a mullet... it's just wet, slightly longish hair badly drawn) I loved it!

    I'm calling it now: Blake is Zeus.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Astroman View Post
    Other than the art (for example, I don't think that's a mullet... it's just wet, slightly longish hair badly drawn) I loved it!

    I'm calling it now: Blake is Zeus.
    I could totally see it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astroman View Post
    Other than the art (for example, I don't think that's a mullet... it's just wet, slightly longish hair badly drawn) I loved it!

    I'm calling it now: Blake is Zeus.

    I think you may be right about Blake being Zeus.... I was thinking Hermès!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyssane View Post
    I've gotta be honest... I didn't like it.

    As a whole I found it to be quite dull and slightly boring. The bits with Blake Hooper were just so yawn-inducing for me (though I read it quickly so I probably missed something important).

    The Steve/Diana dialogue was strange. I liked Diana having a bit of fun with Steve saying he usually saves her (at least I hope that was a joke on her part), but Steve seems to be grossly out of character. I don't like when they have to point out the fact that Steve is a man yet in the stereotypically "feminine" role. It doesn't need to be stated, we as readers already know the role he plays.

    Dr. Peril? A supervillain in the making? Seriously, that name is pretty odd.

    As for Jason, I highly doubt that is the real Jason. If it is, that dialogue at the end was incredibly off, even by comic book standards. Also that mullet has got to go.

    The art was a step down from last issue's, as well.

    I think ultimately, the more I think about it, the more sour I get that they found it a good time to rewind and go back to a New 52 story arc when the whole point of Rebirth is to go back to basics with the characters and stories. Rucka had already established several fantastic stories, yet they're completely gone now (at least for almost a year). What happened to Doctor Cyber? Is Veronica Cale still stewing in her hatred for Diana? Where the heck did Cheetah run off to? Have Dave, Manny, and Chris been completely replaced by Charlie, Sameer, and Chief? There's just so many unresolved threads yet they chose to go with Darkseid War, which didn't seem to be that popular of a story arc to begin with (for the record, I enjoyed it).
    I didn't think much of it either.

    When would anyone feel the need to say that Lois Lane is only there for eye candy? That never even comes up in the movie, mostly because they constantly find ways to make Steve useful while not undermining Diana as the lead. But again, most of that is about him doing things that Diana is not as good at - like spying and piloting. It just feels like he is being wasted at the moment.

    I'm not real sold on the whole Jason storyline for starters, and it seems to have nothing to do with the rebirth arc. Dark haired Hippolyta had a twin and sent him off the island? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. And if the Hercules story with the Amazons is as it has been in the past that would mean that Diana's half brother sexually assaulted her mother.

    Which is just seriously messed up.

    The action felt kind of ho-hum and I was not real impressed with Hercule Poirot either.
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