DC continues down the path of generally disturbing the history of all their characters and Wonder Woman is their current target. She’s always been third best, given the hand-me-downs, or carbon copy villains (Cheetah v. Catwoman? Yeah, we all know who wins that fight). Now, as if having her labelled a murderer, a traitor, getting her ass kicked, having her friends tortured, and driving a spike through her love life wasn’t enough, DC is going to take the one thing Wonder Woman has always had. Well, I guess it would be a pretty big spoiler if I told you what it was, so you’ll just have to read the issue to find out.

A mythological sized bitch slap just landed across the face of Wonder Woman’s heritage and it was delivered by Wonder Woman herself! That’s all I’ll say. Seriously, tip of the iceberg type stuff. Things will never be the same--at least until DC changes it all back in a few months in an issue that deals with time travel or Wonder Woman simply beats everything back into its rightful place.

Well, first off I have to say YAY! Aaron Lopresti came back! I missed you Aaron, and you’re kickin’ ass and takin’ names--beautiful Wonder Woman. Okay, so now you all know I liked the art, no need to carry on about that.

The story was good but not tremendous, just a fair departure from the whole Genocide story that was dragging along for a few too many months. Zeus’s Olympians are still around and they finally did something in this issue, a semi-big something too. Zeus finally explains what his plans for the Olympians were. Thank goodness. I don’t know about you guys, but I was lost for a moment there. Although I still can’t figure out why Zeus is dressed like a seaman from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Now, we all know that DC can’t let sleeping dogs lie, so they’ve taken two past storylines(which I thought were just so-so) and have melded them together to create possibly the greatest “meh” storyline in Wonder Woman history. I know I give Amazons Attack! a hard jabbing every now and then, but whatever this issue is leading to may receive a good ripping of a new one. Also, how hilarious is it that the Amazons use a super phallic canon to fight off their enemies? It’s high-larious. At this point things could go in any direction, but they won’t. We know they won’t. How do we know? Because Steve Rogers and Superman didn’t stay dead, and Wolverine eventually got his adamantium back. Comics are nothing if not predictable. Sure the “wow, did that just happen?” moment pops up and shocks the hell out of everyone, but eventually it all reverts back to the comfort zone so it can be messed with again. It's like setting up dominos. Knock ‘em down, set ‘em back up, knock ‘em down again.

So where does this issue stand? Aaron Lopresti + little to no Genocide + silly wang cannon = good. Screwing with Wonder Woman identity (again) + potential rehashing of blah story arcs = bad. Hey, it’s slightly better than bad, making this an okay issue.

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