The first tales by best-selling writer Shea Fontana and the 75th Anniversary Special of Wonder Woman as a part of DC Universe Rebirth are collected here in hardcover for the first time ever!
Celebrated author Shea Fontana (DC Super Hero Girls) writes an exciting story arc for our favorite Amazon Warrior, Wonder Woman! Gathering the incredible fifth paperback volume and the 75th Anniversary Special of Wonder Woman in hardcover for the first time ever! New danger and enemies are closer than she knows. Can the Lasso of Truth bring light to the dark for Wonder Woman?
Coming off the highly anticipated Wonder Woman and Justice League movies and with the success of DC Super Hero Girls, the Amazon Warrior's profile is higher than ever!
Collects issues #26-#30, Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor, Annual #1 and Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary.
Shea Fontana is a writer for film, television and graphic novels. Her credits include developing and writing the DC Super Hero Girls animated shorts, TV specials, movies and graphic novels; Polly Pocket (developed and story editor), Doc McStuffins, The 7D, Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets (wrote show bible and first season), Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (story editor), the new Muppet Babies series; two Disney on Ice shows where she wrote new material for the worlds of Mickey Mouse, Inside Out, Disney Princesses, Finding Dori, Frozen, and other Disney and Pixar properties; and the feature film, Crowning Jules. She has also written for top comic titles including Justice League, Wonder Woman, Batman: Overdrive (coming 2019), Catwoman/Looney Tunes, and contributed anthology pieces starring Deathstroke and Teen Titans.
Her DC Super Hero Girls graphic novels have been New York Times Best Sellers. Her debut graphic novel, Finals Crisis, was honored with Diamond's 2016 Gem Award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel, and DC Super Hero Girls: Past Times at Super Hero High won the 2017 Gem Award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel as well as the Comixology Reader's Pick award for Best All-Ages Graphic Novel of 2017. DC Super Hero Girls won the 2018 Ringo Award for Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel. She was listed 61st on Bleeding Cool’s Power List of Comics for 2018. The London Free Press declared her “not afraid to be corny,” which is an accurate assessment of her persona both on and off the page.
She lives in sunny Los Angeles where she enjoys hiking, hanging out with her beagle, Ziggy, and changing her hair color. Using the secret identity “Shea Q. Off,” Shea played roller derby until her angry knees forced her into early retirement.
Whoa boy. We go from Greg Rucka in the first two books to Shea Fontana for the third and it really shows. Complete tonal shift. The Rucka collection gave us a massive over-arching story line that was really compelling (despite some faults). This collection is just a potpourri of unconnected one-off stories about Wonder Woman. I got so used to the drama of the long story by Rucka that everything thrown at me in this collection came off as lazy or boring. Want to see Wonder Woman fight a kaiju for five pages only to befriend him and place him on a dinosaur island? You're in luck! Seriously. If the Rebirth series has devolved into just a collection of short stories for different writers and artists to dump throw away concepts into then I am very disappointed in where this series is going. I'll look at the next book or two but if things don't improve then that's it for me.
Unlike the previous 2 Greg Rucka volumes, volume 3 is a compilation of only 5 Wonder Woman comics and a series of shorts and oddities from WW's 75th anniversary. There is some great artwork, but its let down by some weaker comics and the writing ranges from acceptable to weak to downright bad. One for completists only.
A solid read. Reading this right after the last volume, it didn't feel as coherent as volumes 1 and 2.
This felt more like a completion of single issues with Wonder Women as the lead which were good but I think I was expecting this volume to pick up the same storyline.
The different stories also showcase different art styles and colorist and all were interesting in their own spins of this iconic figure.
After Greg Rucka's amazing run, this was obviously not going to match up. It's fairly apparent that the 5-issue arc is just filler until Robinson comes in, while the Annual and Specials are sometimes a fun diversion, and completely inessential.
The drop in quality from the last volume is one of the biggest I’ve ever seen. It went from “Masterpiece” to “Free Comic Book Day” so fast that I genuinely couldn’t believe it. Couldn’t even finish it. Complete drek.
This is an odd collection. The first few issues with Steve, Etta Candy, and Steve's comrades (Chief, Sameer, Charlie--also seen in the 2017 movie!) are pretty good. The mixture of one-shots after range a lot in quality from good to eh. The second half, volume 6, revolves around Wonder Woman's siblings a la New 52 storyline--but with a twist. I wasn't a big fan of it. I also think this WW is more fighting than compassion/Lasso of Truth-wielding, which is less interesting to me.
Random appearance of my birthplace (Manila)! And her main sibling in this story has the same name as my brother! I feel the WW vibes in me. But these coincidences aren't enough for me to feel more than lukewarm on this.
Ugh. I hate to give my wonderful Wonder Woman such a low rating, however, the story was boring and super cheesy and the art was SO disappointing from the previous novels. This art looks ameteurish and childish and was just not good at all. I am not understanding why the artists and Greg Rucka changed, but it was a big disappointment.
Not terrible but definitely a step down from Rucka's run. A less than grandiose story about someone wanting to create a tiny army of Wonder Woman troops. And then a bunch of one off stories celebrating 75 years of WW.