This is a great development, getting to the very dichotomies inherent in the Wonder Woman character - how she can be an ambassador of peace (in some continuities) but still solve her problems mostly through the use of superheroic violence. 4: War's great cliffhanger was that Diana sacrificed Ares to defeat Zeus's mad First Born, and therefore took the mantle of the God of War on herself. I'm all for subtle storytelling, but I think Azzarello fails in clueing the reader in on the stakes of Wonder Woman's conflict, and that prevents the reader from really getting entrenched in the story.Īzzarello still writes Diana well, but character development takes too much a backseat to go-nowhere action plots here for my tastes (even if well-drawn by Cliff Chiang and Goran Sudzuka). But, getting there has its highs and lows. Toward the end, Brian Azzarello's Wonder Woman Vol 5: Flesh gets really interesting, even downright gripping.
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