3 1/2A collection of ten Wonder Woman stories spanning her first sixty years. There's also a two-page snippet explaining her origin and an Introduction by Lynda Carter. It works better as a historical overview than as a 'best of' collection. Seeing the changes over the years is fascinating. Robe...
More early Wonder Woman. I have to say, I appreciate how faithfully DC seems to be reproducing these issues, down to having the "crawl" on the bottom of the page urging readers to buy war bonds and donate scrap.
More class Wonder Woman. Can be fun to read, even if it is cheesy by modern standards.
More of the same, but I thought I'd take a moment to talk about Etta Candy. Etta is, in many ways, a joke character. She's overweight, and never without her candy. But she's also loyal, fearless, a good hand in a fight, and apparently quite popular with men. Joke character aside, she's actually pret...
Continuing to read out of curiosity and my obsession with completeness. My thought are the same as they were in my review for the first volume.
Let's be perfectly honest: the only reason to read these old Wonder Woman stories is historical curiosity. Or at least the only reason for me: although I love the Golden Age heroes, the Golden Age stories usually fall flat for me, and probably for many modern readers. In many ways, Wonder Woman is a...