Well then comic book fans I can't even remember the last time I reviewed a comic book it was that long ago but I thought to myself that since we have all this time of I might as well do one now. As luck would have it I also forgot about the sequel to Wonder Woman Earth One Volume One being out and so after being reminded of it I thought that this would make a good book to review and so here is my review of Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two" enjoy.
The plot of the book is Diana gets I guess you could say brainwashed by someone all the meanwhile there is a threat coming not only for Paradise Island aka Themyscira but also from on the island itself. The first thing you should all know about this book is it's part 1 of a two part story and so nothing gets resolved in this book as for what I thought about the story tho it was honestly really good and that's the best thing that I can say about story.
The writer of the book is comic book legend Grant Morrison who's written a ton of books for DC as well as a Doctor Who comic book. I honestly didn't like the writing in this one to me it felt very child like like he was just putting Diana in situations that only a child would come up with and it just didn't work with the more adult tone of this series but when Grant does write something in the book that goes with the tone it works oddly well.
Returning from the previous book to do the artwork is Yanick Paquette who's mostly worked on books for DC but has also done a few X-Men books as well as other books for Marvel. I'll admit the only book i've seen from this artist is Wonder Woman Earth One Volume One and so I can't really say if his work is any good or not but I do feel that this book is a slight step down in quality in my opinion the artwork isn't bad by any means but it's also not as good as it perhaps could have been.
Yeah this book is pretty violent like way more violent then I was honestly expecting it to be but given the books more mature tone it's to be expected. The violence in my opinion works really well since it's used to tell a story or used to advance the story instead of being in there to shock you which is in my opinion a very good thing however the horror fan inside of me wanted to see more violence since what little we got was pretty freaking awesome.
There is one idea that I really liked in the book and that's a I guess you could say robotic version of Areas. That to me is just such a cool idea it's just a shame that we don't get to see it getting used in this book so i;m hoping that it gets used whenever volume three comes out. I also thought it was a good way to bring in one of Wonder Woman's classic foes since it would have been so easy just to have him show up but nope this way is actually pretty creative.
Now for the life of me I really couldn't tell you who the main villain of this book is since there's three villains and even then one of them becomes a good guy at the end of the book those being Maxwell Lord , Leon Zeiko (there's a reason why i'm not giving out his super villain name) and the sexy as hell Paula Von Gunther. All three of characters are villains in this story and all three of them are weak as hell since we don't get to find out anything about the characters nor do we get to see what there end goals are they are evil just for the sake of being evil and that makes them and thus Diana less interesting.
Now if you're like me and you've read the first volume then you'll know that this I guess you could say either series or mini-series gives a more sexy take on the character and by that I mean they show of more sexy images and she the character in more sexy angles. Well the same is true here heck I couldn't even show you one of the more sexier images since there was some nudity in there but all I can say is damn because they really like showing of Diana in this volume and I loved it not going to lie.
Now then this is an action book and so that means that we have to talk about the action that's in the comic book itself. There honestly isn't that much action in the book which I guess makes sense since this is the first part of a two part story and so it makes sense that alot of the action would be held of until the final book but what little action that there is in this book is honestly really well done in my opinion it's cool and exciting both of which you want in an action sequence I just wish that there was more of it.
Overall while I think that the first book is alot more enjoyable to read and is so far the best one in this series of volumes. That doesn't however mean that I don't like this book because far from it in fact there was a lot that I liked about the book alot of which i've mentioned in this very review it's just that there's alot more that I didn't like about the book which i've also covered in this review and so this volume gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
