Wonder Woman #30 Review

Should we really care what happens to the world now that First Born has taken Olympus? Read on to find out.

The official description from DC:

Wonder Woman, the God of War, takes command of the deadliest army ever! The Amazons are back, and they have some scores to settle…

A politically charged issue sees our heroine faced with the harsh realities of the returned warriors at her call. It’s a complicated situation made worse by the tampering of celestial beings and a young woman who’s ventured out into the world only to discover what she and her people have been lacking. Thanks to a strong creative team, there’s enough positives going on here to justify this interlude but there were some bland sequences along the way.

Brian Azzarello pens the script and the series scribe continues to chart the course he’s been plotting for nearly three years. He’s crafted and re-introduced elements that have pushed Wonder Woman along a path that seems to not just make her a God or a Queen but a beacon for change. It’s a new era, and despite some overly wordy conversations, that honestly feel like they’re going nowhere, the points therein are sound. The whole of the book came off as a calm before the proverbial storm, but trust me when I say the cliffhanger will easily excite all those invested in this journey.

The art by Goran Sudžuka is competent but never to a level where he rivals Cliff Chiang. His pencil strokes compliment the accepted renditions of the title while employing, once again, a minimalist display. He offers slight details instead of an overabundance of exposition but there were a couple instances where I felt that the visuals were a bit shaky. But more often than not they channeled what we already knew. Which is also thanks, in no short account, to the colors done by Matthew Wilson.

Wonder Woman #30 is a good outing that’s not all it can be, but it does enough to move the literary ball forward while giving us a sense of the stakes at play. Recommended.