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If I hadn't already been a loyal follower of Tom King for a long time, I would have been after the last two recent DC Runs under his qill, The Penguin and above all this Wonder Woman spectacular!
This here is pure literature, comic craftsmanship at its finest. And I'm not just referring to King's unmistakable language, elevated without appearing arrogant, chosen without becoming incomprehensible, and always with an equally unmistakable spoken melody.
Each issue in this series - and I was seriously amazed when I realized just looking at the cover that this is only the fourth issue, the content and the experience is so much richer - stands on its own.
Each issue has a new basic framework, works with different stylistic devices and perspectives, and focuses on different aspects of Wonder Woman's life and the conflict between the USA and the Amazons.
And yet at the same time everything is one, everything is connected and a billowing plot stream continues to flow unhindered through each new piece of this series.
I love this play with language, with the medium, and now this, an open play with the reader's emotional reception.
Ostracized by everyone and officially proclaimed Public Enemy No. 1, Wonder Woman grants a dying boy his last wish and treats him to a day with her in paradise, on Themyscira.
What at first sounds like it could end in hard to bear theatrics and kitsch, here, thanks to Tom King's multi-layered writing and especially Daniel Sampere's incredibly atmospheric, fantastically stirring artwork, becomes a story that, while tickling the tear ducts with a touching drama, it titillates your nerves with tension, action and excitement likewise.
I can't say it any other way - even at the risk of sounding theatrical myself (wouldn't be my first) - but Wonder Woman: Outlaw Part 4 was pure beauty.
A perfect issue.
Not least because of the backstory, which gives us a cheerful little story about the everyday madness of two heroic babysitters of Lizzie, Wonder Woman's daughter, to wind down.
With an illustrator, Belén Ortega, who has also been selected in an absolutely fitting manner.
This is exactly why I love comics.
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Wonder Woman #4 Cover A Daniel Sampere
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With the world losing trust in the Amazons, Wonder Woman takes a moment to grant the wish of a dying boy and gives him the perfect day. Meanwhile, the Sovereign constricts his grip on the government. Will Wonder Woman be… read more
