Classic Comics Compendium: The History of Wonder Woman

Greek gods. Feminism. Immortal beings greater than life.

No, you didn’t somehow stumble across another comment from this year’s Olympics opening ceremony, although it did include a giant blue guy. There’s also archery and stuff like that. human trafficking. Slavery. Child abandonment. A little sibling rivalry. The domineering patriarch. Social injustice. Sisterhood.

All of this is woven together in a lyrical, mythic form to create one of this year’s Eisner Award winners, winning Best Graphic Album – Reprint, Wonder Woman History: Amazons. The work also previously won the 2022 Award for Best Single Issue (Book 1) and Best Pencils/Inks (Phil Jimenez).

“Young people, history is written by the victors. In the fierce battle between the Amazons and the God of Man…”

Wonder Woman History: Amazons go through Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, Nicola Scott, Hi-Fi, Arif Prianto, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Huang, Guo Biting, and Clayton Cowles This is a story about the origins of the Amazons, from their creation by the gods to how they ended up on the island of Paradise.

Divided into three books, each acts as a movement through a different realm as the story unfolds. Starting from the divine world, to the mortal world, and finally ending with the conflict between the two. Kelly Sue DeConnick has shaped it in the manner of a fairy tale, taking full advantage of subtle variations in mythology and dramatic form in the story’s structure and content. Give Clayton Cowles a chance to provide us with some fun narration boxes and special balloons for God’s speech.

The artwork is very beautiful. This book is actually worth it just to marvel at the detail and beauty of the visuals. Phil Jimenez, Hi-Fi, Arif Prianto and Romulo Fajardo Jr. set the bar ridiculously high in the first installment. To be honest, the complexity of the design, storytelling flow, page layout and character designs, plus the colors and effects were off the scale. The in-depth study of men’s inhumanity to women, represented solely by the art of pottery, is mind-boggling. That’s just within the first few pages, and as the story unfolds on the stages of Olympus and Tartarus, it becomes even more magical, as the original Amazons were created by six Greek goddesses.

It’s a hard act to follow, but Gene Ha and Walden Wong and Nicola Scott and Annette Kwok did it in their second and third books respectively. Ha and Wong gave their characters a more ethereal tone, dealing with some of the spiritual and emotional development of the Seventh Tribe of the Amazons, a mortal sisterhood led by Hippolyta. An interesting insistence on the golden ratio theme in the page. And Scott and Guo bring the story to a climax, where an angry male god attempts to bring rage and a strange sense of justice to the Amazons.

“…remember that we are blessed.

Wonder Woman History: Amazons The work created by DeConnick, Jimenez, Ha, Scott, Hi-Fi, Prianto, Fajardo, Wong, Kwok and Cowles is a wonderful modern myth. It’s a compelling, beautiful origin story about the DC female warriors who are part of Wonder Woman’s family, as well as a parable and commentary on the injustices that still exist in society. and calls out how women coming together, bringing together their differences and strengths, can create powerful forces.