WONDER WOMAN #10

Love And Murder, Part 5

August 2007

Written by Jodi Picoult

Pencils by Paco Diaz

Inks by Paco Diaz

Cover by Terry and Rachel Dodson

Synopsis

Moments before Circe dies at the hands of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, the witch tells Diana that to end the war, she must kill her mother.  Diana confronts her mother, but Hippolyta is able to get away.  Hippolyta tells the amazons to prepare the secret weapon.  Special Agent Tom Tresser (aka Nemesis) is able to get it away from her, but unwillingly unleashes the weapon:  a horde of Stygian Killer Hornets.  Nemesis then gets stung.  The only antidote is on Themyscira.  Diana blames her mother for what happened.  Hippolyta can’t believe that her daughter would care for Nemesis or for humans.  Diana tells her mother that Hippolyta once asked if Diana would die for the humans.  Now Diana asks if Hippolyta would kill her own daughter to win the war as she places a knife in her mother’s hand and puts the blade to her own neck. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Since DC asks that your read Amazons Attack to get a fuller sense of the larger story, I am going to ask you to click here so you can read my rant regarding the logistics of the larger story filtering through this title (and now Teen Titans).

The best part of Picoult’s run has been the relationship between Tom and Diana and this issue is no exception.  From the fastball special to his small speech just before he loses consciousness, Nemesis’ parts were the best parts of this issue.  I hope that when all is said and done and this book gets a new writer, that he or she keeps Nemesis around (of course, that might be hard to do if they ditch her secret identity, which is not too difficult to keep; after all, Nemesis figured it out).  Anyway, the rest of the issue is more of Diana trying to figure out exactly who she is and what she is going to do with her life.  The repetitiveness of this is starting to wear me down as a reader and it is starting to affect the plot as well.  This issue opens and closes with the same scene:  Diana wondering who she is as she confronts her mother.  The scenes in between were more fodder for the war with the amazons and probably should’ve been in the mini-series rather than stuck here.  But I think I’ve already covered that argument already. 

There is a really bad spelling mistake on page 7, the second panel.  It should be seize not “sieze.”

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