![]() (Surprise.) She’s pitted the gods against each other and is determined to destroy Mother Gaea for reasons. Even Batman is like, “I really should bring you in.” Batman. At one point, Hawkgirl threatens to wring Wonder Woman’s neck if she ever catches her. They think Wonder Woman committed some unnamed crimes (I assume they were brought up in the previous arcs) and they lost trust in her. The rest of the Amazons are in hiding and Wonder Woman herself in on the run.Īctually, that might be the most unbelievable element in this whole book: everyone convinced Diana is guilty of some heinous act. Some of them have been arrested, while Steve Trevor and Etta Candy (looking like she just stepped out of a “Love & Rockets” book) face court martial from a particularly evil general. ![]() In a storyline previous to this one, the Amazons had been framed for a series of heists and murders after they revealed their existence to the wider world, and public perception has turned against them. start appearing around the world as well, hoping to revert the earth back to the time where they were the ones primarily worshipping. And then the other gods - Egyptian, Norse, African, etc. Okay, so, one day, the Greek and Roman gods just up and start fighting each other. Although, I’m not sure if knowing what happened in those other issues would have helped this story make any more sense. While a nine-issue collection isn’t anything to scoff at, remember, this event crossed over through 25 different titles, so it feels sporadic, only a snippet of the actual story. We have all four issues of “War of the Gods” (which are like, 40 pages each) and “Wonder Woman” #58-62. This edition of “War of the Gods” features only the stuff Wonder Woman herself is directly involved in. Reading this, you can practically feel Pérez in the background, willing himself to see the story through. Some of the books in the crossover didn’t even bear the ‘War of the Gods’ banner, and that frustration Pérez must have felt at DC comes through in the script. Editorial constantly shuffled characters around, withheld ones promised to Pérez, and tossed him others at the last minute. Unfortunately for him, DC didn’t see it the same way.ĭespite all the characters and talent involved, DC was also prepping for another event: ‘Armageddon 2001’ (an crossover I literally had never heard of until doing background research on this book). He wanted to tell a story worthy of the Princess of Themiscryia. ![]() With this series, Pérez wanted to go big, extravagant. (Things like having her giving up her powers to stay in Man’s World and basically relegating her to a secretary for the Justice League.) Over the course of sixty-odd issues, there’s no doubt he produced one of the definitive runs on the character and his love and admiration for her shines throughout this whole thing. George Pérez had relaunched Wonder Woman after “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, re-embraced a lot of her Greek roots, and 86ed a ton of the extraneous work people like Robert Kanigher and Mike Sekowsky had subjected her. In order to understand what’s going on in “War of the Gods”, it’s probably necessary to look back at its creation. Teaming with Superman, Captain Marvel and others, Wonder Woman must stop a battle that could destroy the galaxy, and discover who is pulling the strings behind the scenes! Collects WAR OF THE GODS #1-4 and WONDER WOMAN #58-62! When Zeus and his fellow Gods of Olympus go to war with other deities from across the heavens (and beyond), the heroes of the DC Universe are stuck in the middle. Illustrated by George Pérez, Jill Thompson, Cynthia Martin, Russell Braun, & Romeo Tanghal
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