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A review by tylertylertyler
Wonder Woman: Earth One, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
2.0
I'll preface this to say I've never been that impressed by Grant Morrison as a writer, regardless of which hero he's writing. And I'll follow that by saying this volume of Wonder Woman definitely did not change this fact.
There are definitely some good ideas in this book. There are some general changes that I would love to see in the main Wonder Woman comics. Steve Trevor, for instance, was done well; the change to make him a black man and the speech about subjugation was a nice touch. Etta/Beth Candy was an interesting update. One thing I definitely approved of was the addition of more blatantly queer aspects to Wonder Woman and the Amazons (and Beth/Etta as well).
On the other hand... while it was all well-intentioned, the efforts at 'feminism' came off poorly if not like a parody of actual feminist thought. We're talking a staging of radical feminism and gender essentialism. There was body shaming, too, and strangely the use of 'girls' as a derogatory term (ie saying the soldiers were more girls than men--from an Amazon?).
The interesting ideas mean that this wasn't a total waste of time, but had it been much longer then I'm not sure it would have been worth the time. I probably won't pick up volume two, but it was interesting to see what Morrison's take on Diana was.
There are definitely some good ideas in this book. There are some general changes that I would love to see in the main Wonder Woman comics. Steve Trevor, for instance, was done well; the change to make him a black man and the speech about subjugation was a nice touch. Etta/Beth Candy was an interesting update. One thing I definitely approved of was the addition of more blatantly queer aspects to Wonder Woman and the Amazons (and Beth/Etta as well).
On the other hand... while it was all well-intentioned, the efforts at 'feminism' came off poorly if not like a parody of actual feminist thought. We're talking a staging of radical feminism and gender essentialism. There was body shaming, too, and strangely the use of 'girls' as a derogatory term (ie saying the soldiers were more girls than men--from an Amazon?).
The interesting ideas mean that this wasn't a total waste of time, but had it been much longer then I'm not sure it would have been worth the time. I probably won't pick up volume two, but it was interesting to see what Morrison's take on Diana was.