Wonder Woman: finally not embarrassing to read

Wonder Woman: the Circle

Wonder Woman: Ends of the Earth

both written by Gail Simone

I had high expectations, I won't lie. It's Gail freaking Simone. The writer behind Birds of Prey. The writer who took my favourite comic characters of all time – Black Canary, Huntress, Barbara Gordon – and made them even more awesome than they already were.

But still. It's Wonder Woman. The possibilities for it going wrong were still pretty endless.

In the end, none of the four stories collected across...