The art of this comic run is a stand-out-the colors are vibrant and the designs beautiful-but it is also revolutionary. The coexistence of epicness and tragedy throughout this story perfectly carries on the Homeric tradition, and we finally see Greek myth in Wonder Woman’s world done right. The ending is full of compromise and harsh reality, but also hope, in the form of baby Diana, our future Wonder Woman. We then meet our hero, Hippolyta, who becomes queen of the Amazons and propels them into a war.

Like any good Homeric tale, the story doesn’t end here. This leads to the goddesses, save Hera, creating the Amazons, a second life for women who had been prematurely taken from their first at the hands of men. Of course, the men of the pantheon have no interest in seeking justice for the women of earth, as they are perpetuating the same crimes on Olympus. The majority of the comic follows the major Greek goddesses as they become steadily more disillusioned with the way mortal women are treated, and eventually band together to demand mortal men be punished for their gendered violence. Of course, Wonder Woman has always had her roots in Greek myth, but it is rarely utilized, and this Wonder Woman Historia review will reflect on how exactly that is rectified. It was intended to be a Homeric type epic for the origins of the original feminist hero, Wonder Woman, and the tribe of warrior women she hails from, the Amazons.

The magazine-size limited run was published in three parts, the last of which hit shelves just a few days before 2022 ended. Admittedly, that is changing, and at the forefront of this overdue shift is Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons. Often, comics read as one power fantasy after another, tailored perfectly for cis-het white men, but ill-fitting on the rest of us. There is also the general sense that the entirety of the comic book world exists for the male gaze. There are horror stories about comic book artists drawing Power Girl’s breasts bigger in every issue just to see what they can get away with, or writers purposefully putting heroes like She-Hulk in compromising positions because they enjoyed it. In our Wonder Woman Historia review, we explore why Wonder Woman’s new origin story feels like the story that should have been told all along.Ĭomic books have always been a fraught medium, at least for those of us who do not look like Bruce Wayne or Jessica Rabbit.

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