Comics! Wonder Woman #4

Wonder Woman #4

Brian Azzarello: writer
Cliff Chiang: artist &cover

The Comic
This comic takes a moment to try and relax from the story, to take some time to enjoy some character development, and then throws it all in the wringer and advances the story tenfold from before.

All the characters take a time out to see the fall out of their actions and their secrets that have been held for so long. Wonder Woman loses herself in a concert, but it isn't long before her new "family" cries for her attention again.

Meanwhile, back on Paradise Island, Hippolyta asks Hera for forgiveness for sleeping with Zeus. Hera will have none of it. The reader finds out what happens to Hippolyta and the women on the island at the same time that Wonder Woman does when she returns to the island to ask for Hippolyta's forgiveness for storming off the island in the previous issue. The ladies are snakes, and Hippolyta looks like she has been turned into stone or clay. I say either because its not explicit, and clay is the more ironic thing to turn Hippolyta into.

The dark skinned man from issue one appears again to speak with his brother War. He tries forming an alliance of some sort and to inform War that Zeus is missing. War wants nothing to do with it and decides to lay down for a nap. War's final words are to say that the world will be ruled by war. That it is inevitable. To give you perspective, he does this while walking through a war zone.

I'm enjoying it. We get what I thought would be a time out issue to focus on other moments, but instead we get something that brings as much action as any other issue.

While knowing something about Greek mythology will help with the story, there is enough in this comic to tell you about the characters and their actions that reflects the personalities of the gods and monsters in this book. This is Wonder Woman in a horror/Greek story that is just hitting the right notes left and right.

Cover Art
Good: The simple use of colors. The trail of blood with Wonder Woman in the stream. Clearly defining who the character is that is the villain of this story. I'm glad that the art did not get overlapped by title and credits.
Bad: Nothing. This is a great cover.

Grades
Words: 10/10
Pictures: 10/10
Recommend: If this is the first Wonder Woman comic you pick up and expect to see Wonder Woman fighting, then you will be disappointed. Otherwise, it is good stuff.
Buy Next Issue: Game. Set. Match.

Previous Issues:
Three Issue Trial
Wonder Woman #3
Wonder Woman #2
Wonder Woman #1