The G.W.Wilson run in review

[brettc1]

Bleh.

That’s about the best way I can describe it. Sub-par, Lacklustre, and uninspiring also come to mind.

From the first arc where Diana was unable to stop Ares from blowing up a family while she was right there watching, I had trepidation’s about the direction GWW was going. Things only got more worries one when she failed to defeat Ares in pitched combat while Aphrodite was able to stop him with a few words.

It’s not that the writing of Wonder Woman herself was inconsistent, it’s that it was consistently unremarkable and outshone by the authors own new characters, noteably Maggie and Atlantiades. Over and over again Diana underperformed and had to be rescued by her secondary characters. When not being physically overwhelmed, she was made to agonise over her worthiness.

GWW said it took a while find Diana’s voice. Apparently when she discovered it, it was the voice of an barely trained novice struggling with personal esteem issues, who often looked ready to cry if spoke harshly to her. The only times she won a fight cleanly it was wrapped up so briefly and without spectacle that it seemed the writer was actually more interested in getting to Diana’s next dressing down.

Add to that plots that went nowhere (Grail, the Zoo Crew) and Diana not even noticing she lost her most prized possession, and you are left with a run that has the basic element of storytelling but lacks any true flavour. It’s like a sandwich with no fillling, just bread and butter.

Measured alongside her appearances in the Team book JL DARK, GWW’s Diana comes off as a very poor second. I’ve read worse runs with Wonder Woman, but a good many that were better.

[Manakel]

I liked the 5 or 10 first issues but then it all descend in a spiral to nowhere. To compare it with Rucka, with his run he opened doors for other writer and use what is already there to tell a great story. Wilson close the doors and feel obligated to invent things (not even consistent with previous issues) in order to tell a story. It startee with a good intention but ended badly. By the way Ared was searching for Athena but it seems Wilson didn't even care about what she put in motion.

[Factor]

It was definitely a disappointment. I absolutely love her Ms Marvel, so I was really excited for her take on WW, but it seems like she never really found her voice in the book.
It was by no means bad, but I guess we were expecting a character-defining run and got some okay arcs instead.

[Dr. Poison]

For me, it felt like a lot of false hope that never panned out. 2 stars.

[Nyssane]

2 Stars. Nowhere near the atrocities that are the Finch/Robinson runs, but ultimately very meh. It's a shame because there were some great concepts there, and I particularly liked the direction she was going in with Ares.

[Vordan]

Pretty meh. I’d rate it along the post-Rucka/pre-Robinson runs. Not terrible, just boring for the most part, and with little staying power.

[Gaelforce]

Two stars.

I never once felt that we got a Wonder Woman story in all of this time. Just about every single time (I think the only exception was her hugging it out with Cale), someone else solved the problem for her. Every 'feat' we saw was followed almost immediately by a loss that required the intervention of Aphrodite/Maggie/Atlantiades to ultimately win.

The bulk of it, in context, comes across as Maggie's story, including her sudden re-appearance as a full-fledged Amazon at the end of the run (is she Diana's replacement in the upcoming storyline?), and Atlantiades story as they discover who they really are.

We got the zoo crew, who just up and vanished, we got Maggie, who was the hero more often than Diana was, and we got the death of Aphrodite and the apotheosis of Atlantiades. I really hate to say this, but it feels like one of the major points of this entire run was to add a gender fluid character to Diana's pantheon of gods.

I just felt that, like I felt with Azzarello, Wilson had a story she wanted to tell and just used Diana's book to tell it. Diana was pretty much irrelevant, the ending felt rushed and the storyline still feels incomplete.

It's really a shame because I loved her run on Ms. Marvel and I admire her as a person, so I was really looking forward to her turn on Wonder Woman, but sadly, I've been disappointed from the get-go.

I'm tired of seeing Diana having to be torn down in one way or another and I long for the powerful, compassionate, competent and, most importantly of all for me, *confident* superhero I love.

[Celgress]

I liked the 5 or 10 first issues but then it all descend in a spiral to nowhere....

Agreed, the first half was good (especially the first four issues, IMO) then everything just sort of rapidly fell apart.