Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 Exclusive preview

DC Wonder Woman: Earth One The saga is almost over and IGN has an exclusive preview of the third and final graphic novel in the series. Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 brings together writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette for a final Wonder Woman epic. In this landmark chapter, Queen Diana is forced to lead the charge in defense of her homeland as Max Lord’s robot army invades Themiscyra. Can Diana remain a force of love and peace when forced to become the warrior her mother designed her to be?

Find out what’s to come and see Diana interacting with Artemis by checking out the slideshow gallery below:

For those unfamiliar with the Earth One line of graphic novels, they resemble the imprint of Marvel’s Ultimate Universe in that they reinvent and modernize heroes familiar to 21st century audiences, some heroes. changing more radically than others. The Wonder Woman books offer a rather unusual take on Diana and her world, as they draw heavily on the original Golden Age Wonder Woman comics and the themes of slavery and enslavement that were so prevalent in the world. work of designer William Moulton Marston. The first volume even sparked controversy for its portrayal of Diana being the daughter of Hercules, a choice that even Morrison admitted to having “struggled” with.

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“In this particular story, I wanted that tension,” Morrison told IGN in 2016. “I wanted that push and pull, and I wanted Diana to be a little more impure in the sense that, yeah, there’s a little masculinity that Hippolyta originally does just for the reasons that the DNA of Hercules will then destroy women, and there would be no more sons, as Hippolyta said. actually sort of an act of revenge. Diana is used as revenge on the battlefield, which seemed to me a lot more of the sort of thing people could relate to. She’s such a pure and perfect character. that it seemed like we needed that little bit of black in character to give him a chance to grow, think about things, and change. “

Flight. 2 rocked Wonder Woman mythology yet again by portraying longtime DC villain Doctor Psycho as a supervillain pickup artist and a critique of toxic masculinity.

“It was partly my revenge to have seen [this level of manipulation] made to someone. You can see the narcissistic type, the sociopathic type and how easy it is for them to reach people – people you can’t even imagine could be manipulated by anything, ”Morrison told IGN in 2018. “This is a very real problem for the young people of the world. There are people who are quite willing to use these techniques, so I kind of wanted to draw attention to that, but, you know, on the Wonder Woman scale where the guy is a supervillain. I wanted to put these paragons of femininity against this threat and see how she copes with it – because even paragons of intelligence and grace I’ve seen real issues with people like that. Here are the techniques. If you see someone using these techniques against you, the warnings should go off. “

You can verify IGN’s review of Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 and Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2. DC finally publishes the third volume of Batman: Earth One in 2021, which will introduce a very different version of Two-Face and shed more light on Bruce Wayne’s ties to the Arkham family.

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