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Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack!
Led by Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyta, the Amazons mount an all-out assault on the USA, as the world's heroes form a desperate alliance to try to stop them!
Collects AMAZONS ATTACK! #1-6.
Collects AMAZONS ATTACK! #1-6.
151 pages, Hardcover
First published December 5, 2007
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Will Pfeifer
312 books23 followersWill Pfeifer was born in 1967 in the town of Niles, Ohio. He attended Kent State University and graduated in 1989. He has resided in Rockford, Illinois since 1990, with his wife, Amy.
Pfeifer, along with his comic writing duties, is the assistant features editor at the Rockford Register Star. He also writes a weekly DVD column for the Sunday paper.
Pfeifer, along with his comic writing duties, is the assistant features editor at the Rockford Register Star. He also writes a weekly DVD column for the Sunday paper.
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September 8, 2014
Bullet Review:
Complete and utter sh!t. The editing completely ruins what story there is; what's left is a bunch of characters either acting wildly out of character or like morons. And WHERE DA FRAK WAS WONDER WOMAN???
Probably THE WORST comic I've read - this month, this year, possibly ever.
Full Review:
In a series of utterly contrived circumstances, the Amazons, a peaceful, honorable society led by Queen Hippolyta, completely act out of character, ally with Circe (who is their long-time ENEMY - something tells me they should have thought THIS ONE through a little more), slaughter a young man and his boy (amongst many, MANY other innocent bystanders) because Diana was captured and tortured by the US government and oh, yeah, men are horrible, oppressive creatures and who needs men if you are a feminist?
NOTE: Feminism does NOT mean man-hating! Some feminists act that way and many feminists get portrayed that way in media, but that's not what feminism is supposed to be.
NOTE 2: Much profanity ensueth. I typically try to restraint myself, but this made me SO MAD I couldn't hold back.
I am so mad. I haven't been this mad over a book in so long, not since the Anita Sue Blake series. My anger of the butchering of Wonder Woman and my people is just so great, that even a day after finishing this, I feel my skin bubbling and boiling just thinking about the atrocity of this THING masquerading as a comic book.
I have only really been a Wonder Woman fan in the last year. I haven't read every comic she's appeared in, watched the Lynda Carter TV series, or the newer animated movie. But Wonder Woman means a lot to me. She is strong, competent, smart, and compassionate. She is just as powerful as any other male superhero out there. In my mind, she tells me I can do and be anything. And after losing a ton of weight and finding my skin, she tells me I am beautiful and Wonderful.
So to read THIS where her entire culture has been bastardized beyond recognition, all for Teh Dramaz, it's just infuriating.
Who is this Queen Hippolyta, the bloodthirsty, man-hating tyrant willing to kill young children? Why can't her generals approach her and smack some sense into her? What happened to the honorable Amazonian people? And how the flying frak can a bunch of women scantily clad in barely concealing armor and wielding arrows defeat fighter jets and tanks???
Where the flying frak is Wonder Woman, whose name is emblazoned prominently on the cover? Why the frak does it take 50 pages to first see her? Why the frak are Batman and Superman more prominent?
Who are these jokes of characters? Does anyone even do anything in this comic, other than run around with their hands in the air? Numerous times arise in which someone could ACTUALLY END THE FRAKKING WAR, but NO ONE DOES.
I think what makes this EVEN WORSE (if you can imagine) is the absolute SHITTY way that this comic was assembled. The WORST EDITING EVER. The first issue is preceded by a mandatory prologue, which divulges critical material you will NEVER see on the pages. And this format follows for EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Events happen - Nemesis is poisoned, Wonder Woman heads to Themyscira, etc. - but you will NEVER see those in the pages, because that happens in a different comic! All you get is a shitty ass summary of the exciting events that happened.
While I absolutely deplore the OOC behavior of the people running around named Hippolyta and Wonder Woman and Batman, I think that the author MAY have been able to salvage or at least ATTEMPT to bring some sense to it IF all the issues had been compiled together, instead of this slapshod frakked-up heaping turd we got. But then, we would have spent $20 on a whole story, instead of $20 per tie-in trade.
This goes down as one of the worst books I've read - comic or otherwise. The ONLY thing decent about this is the artwork. But shit wrapped in gold paper with a red bow is still shit.
Complete and utter sh!t. The editing completely ruins what story there is; what's left is a bunch of characters either acting wildly out of character or like morons. And WHERE DA FRAK WAS WONDER WOMAN???
Probably THE WORST comic I've read - this month, this year, possibly ever.
Full Review:
In a series of utterly contrived circumstances, the Amazons, a peaceful, honorable society led by Queen Hippolyta, completely act out of character, ally with Circe (who is their long-time ENEMY - something tells me they should have thought THIS ONE through a little more), slaughter a young man and his boy (amongst many, MANY other innocent bystanders) because Diana was captured and tortured by the US government and oh, yeah, men are horrible, oppressive creatures and who needs men if you are a feminist?
NOTE: Feminism does NOT mean man-hating! Some feminists act that way and many feminists get portrayed that way in media, but that's not what feminism is supposed to be.
NOTE 2: Much profanity ensueth. I typically try to restraint myself, but this made me SO MAD I couldn't hold back.
I am so mad. I haven't been this mad over a book in so long, not since the Anita Sue Blake series. My anger of the butchering of Wonder Woman and my people is just so great, that even a day after finishing this, I feel my skin bubbling and boiling just thinking about the atrocity of this THING masquerading as a comic book.
I have only really been a Wonder Woman fan in the last year. I haven't read every comic she's appeared in, watched the Lynda Carter TV series, or the newer animated movie. But Wonder Woman means a lot to me. She is strong, competent, smart, and compassionate. She is just as powerful as any other male superhero out there. In my mind, she tells me I can do and be anything. And after losing a ton of weight and finding my skin, she tells me I am beautiful and Wonderful.
So to read THIS where her entire culture has been bastardized beyond recognition, all for Teh Dramaz, it's just infuriating.
Who is this Queen Hippolyta, the bloodthirsty, man-hating tyrant willing to kill young children? Why can't her generals approach her and smack some sense into her? What happened to the honorable Amazonian people? And how the flying frak can a bunch of women scantily clad in barely concealing armor and wielding arrows defeat fighter jets and tanks???
Where the flying frak is Wonder Woman, whose name is emblazoned prominently on the cover? Why the frak does it take 50 pages to first see her? Why the frak are Batman and Superman more prominent?
Who are these jokes of characters? Does anyone even do anything in this comic, other than run around with their hands in the air? Numerous times arise in which someone could ACTUALLY END THE FRAKKING WAR, but NO ONE DOES.
I think what makes this EVEN WORSE (if you can imagine) is the absolute SHITTY way that this comic was assembled. The WORST EDITING EVER. The first issue is preceded by a mandatory prologue, which divulges critical material you will NEVER see on the pages. And this format follows for EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Events happen - Nemesis is poisoned, Wonder Woman heads to Themyscira, etc. - but you will NEVER see those in the pages, because that happens in a different comic! All you get is a shitty ass summary of the exciting events that happened.
While I absolutely deplore the OOC behavior of the people running around named Hippolyta and Wonder Woman and Batman, I think that the author MAY have been able to salvage or at least ATTEMPT to bring some sense to it IF all the issues had been compiled together, instead of this slapshod frakked-up heaping turd we got. But then, we would have spent $20 on a whole story, instead of $20 per tie-in trade.
This goes down as one of the worst books I've read - comic or otherwise. The ONLY thing decent about this is the artwork. But shit wrapped in gold paper with a red bow is still shit.
March 17, 2023
Well, this is shockingly bad. For one, it feels completely out of character for almost everyone involved, and two, despite it already being a convoluted and stupid plot, it's not even something you can properly follow in this collection due to the amount of references to issues that aren't included. Why are the Amazons attacking the USA? Pfeifer clearly doesn't care. The motivation is quickly revealed, but they might as well have left it out because it makes zero sense either way. Infuriatingly awful, it feels like a personal attack against every fan of Wonder Woman and her mythos.
December 31, 2015
So many problems. I'll come back later when I'm not in a reading marathon.
May 28, 2011
Future editorial bullpen rules on how to create a company wide cross-over title will begin "Do everything opposite of Amazon Attacks." This is, simply, the worst, laziest effort at a cross-over I have seen by any comic book company.
Where to begin? First, this accumulated volume suffers greatly from a terrible editorial policy wherein the cross-over title contains little of the primary action or plot elements that push along the major story-arc. Most primary plot twists and developments took place in Wonder Woman's monthly title, which is not included in this collection - rather, each issue begins with a page of written text explaining what happened in that title and all other cross-over titles. The result is that the actual comic pages make little sense unless you read these synopsis - worse yet, the comic seems to progress at a snail's pace, as protagonists make NO real decisions or decisive actions within this comic, reserving those for their own monthly titles. The end result is that we have a six part story where BATMAN stands on a roof and talks about how much worse everything is getting. For the most part, he literally does nothing but stand there for six issues while Washington D.C. is laid to waste. It's amazing.
On the positive side, we get to hear him say "Bees. My god.", which makes me suspect Nicolas Cage is under that cowl.
Wonder Woman is conspicuously absent from what is presumably her own cross-over. She appears in about 5% of the overall storyline.
Amazons are used as antagonists with little to no thought to the previous interpretations of their characters and attitudes. In every D.C. comic I've read, Amazons are generally portrayed as having the same traits Diana has - compassionate, warm-hearted, fierce when provoked, but honorable. From nearly the first page of this book, the Amazons are portrayed as man-haters with blind subservience to their queen - they kill a child on page two, for cripes' sake, for no good reason other than he is a man. The fact that not a single Amazon stands up to a queen they think is quite mad, when they live in a world where mind possession, brain-washing, clones, magic, and alternate realities are as commonplace as water bottles, boggles the imagination. Especially when they all know that CIRCE, sworn enemy of the Amazons and well-known sorceress, is currently acting as your queen's advisor.
Superheroes are shown to be incredibly ineffectual. I understand they don't want to hurt the Amazons, but the Amazons are armed with bows, spears, and swords. Green Lantern can't corral an army armed this way in just a few seconds? He seems to have no problem doing so when an army is armed with guns or plasma cannons. And he's one of dozens of heroes involved in the struggle. Superman does take some on. At one point, he saves Batman by flinging a dumpster at one of the Amazons - somehow only knocking her out, of course.
Another word about Superman, and what stands out to me as the nadir of the cross-over. While in Washington D.C., Superman hears the crash of Air Force one in Wisconsin, despite being in the middle of a war zone - super hearing is like that. Zipping across country in the blink of the eye, he arrives just in time to stop a squadron of Amazons from killing Wonder Girl, Supergirl, and the President of the United States (I'd argue both of those girls could easily deflect the group of Amazons, but that's a different argument). Superman gives a an uplifting, powerful appeal to the Amazons to stop their fight. It's the type of leadership and general goodness you expect to see from Clark, and one wonders why he did not do this back in Washington with the larger army. As he speaks, U.S. Army troops take position in the trees. Superman sees them and cries out no as the troops kill all of the Amazons.
To summarize - Clark is able to hear a jet crash a continent away in the middle of a city-wide battle, but he is incapable of hearing two dozen troops sneaking through the woods a dozen yards away. No is he able to deflect their bullets with his super speed or able to disarm or knock them down with his breath when he obviously has moments to do so - and, in any other comic, this would probably be enough.
The whole enterprise reads as soulless - an enterprise set up to create the editorial mandate needed to leads the current D.C. status quo in a setup for the larger Final Crisis cross-over to come. It does not feel like an organic growth of story lines already developing and feels emotionally unsatisfying in every degree. It's only saving grace is in it's art, but it isn't enough to save this from being the worst cross-over in the history of comic book.
Where to begin? First, this accumulated volume suffers greatly from a terrible editorial policy wherein the cross-over title contains little of the primary action or plot elements that push along the major story-arc. Most primary plot twists and developments took place in Wonder Woman's monthly title, which is not included in this collection - rather, each issue begins with a page of written text explaining what happened in that title and all other cross-over titles. The result is that the actual comic pages make little sense unless you read these synopsis - worse yet, the comic seems to progress at a snail's pace, as protagonists make NO real decisions or decisive actions within this comic, reserving those for their own monthly titles. The end result is that we have a six part story where BATMAN stands on a roof and talks about how much worse everything is getting. For the most part, he literally does nothing but stand there for six issues while Washington D.C. is laid to waste. It's amazing.
On the positive side, we get to hear him say "Bees. My god.", which makes me suspect Nicolas Cage is under that cowl.
Wonder Woman is conspicuously absent from what is presumably her own cross-over. She appears in about 5% of the overall storyline.
Amazons are used as antagonists with little to no thought to the previous interpretations of their characters and attitudes. In every D.C. comic I've read, Amazons are generally portrayed as having the same traits Diana has - compassionate, warm-hearted, fierce when provoked, but honorable. From nearly the first page of this book, the Amazons are portrayed as man-haters with blind subservience to their queen - they kill a child on page two, for cripes' sake, for no good reason other than he is a man. The fact that not a single Amazon stands up to a queen they think is quite mad, when they live in a world where mind possession, brain-washing, clones, magic, and alternate realities are as commonplace as water bottles, boggles the imagination. Especially when they all know that CIRCE, sworn enemy of the Amazons and well-known sorceress, is currently acting as your queen's advisor.
Superheroes are shown to be incredibly ineffectual. I understand they don't want to hurt the Amazons, but the Amazons are armed with bows, spears, and swords. Green Lantern can't corral an army armed this way in just a few seconds? He seems to have no problem doing so when an army is armed with guns or plasma cannons. And he's one of dozens of heroes involved in the struggle. Superman does take some on. At one point, he saves Batman by flinging a dumpster at one of the Amazons - somehow only knocking her out, of course.
Another word about Superman, and what stands out to me as the nadir of the cross-over. While in Washington D.C., Superman hears the crash of Air Force one in Wisconsin, despite being in the middle of a war zone - super hearing is like that. Zipping across country in the blink of the eye, he arrives just in time to stop a squadron of Amazons from killing Wonder Girl, Supergirl, and the President of the United States (I'd argue both of those girls could easily deflect the group of Amazons, but that's a different argument). Superman gives a an uplifting, powerful appeal to the Amazons to stop their fight. It's the type of leadership and general goodness you expect to see from Clark, and one wonders why he did not do this back in Washington with the larger army. As he speaks, U.S. Army troops take position in the trees. Superman sees them and cries out no as the troops kill all of the Amazons.
To summarize - Clark is able to hear a jet crash a continent away in the middle of a city-wide battle, but he is incapable of hearing two dozen troops sneaking through the woods a dozen yards away. No is he able to deflect their bullets with his super speed or able to disarm or knock them down with his breath when he obviously has moments to do so - and, in any other comic, this would probably be enough.
The whole enterprise reads as soulless - an enterprise set up to create the editorial mandate needed to leads the current D.C. status quo in a setup for the larger Final Crisis cross-over to come. It does not feel like an organic growth of story lines already developing and feels emotionally unsatisfying in every degree. It's only saving grace is in it's art, but it isn't enough to save this from being the worst cross-over in the history of comic book.
April 30, 2008
The title announces the plot--Amazons attack the U.S. because Wonder Woman's taken hostage by the American government. She's freed by the end of the first issue, yet the Amazons keep on attacking, no matter how out of character it is. All the major DC heroes make cameos, though Batman, Superman, Wonder Girl and Supergirl are the only ones with speaking roles.
Amazons Attack feels like it was written by one of DC's line-wide editors. It's clearly a stepping stone to Final Crisis and other crossovers. There are some interesting bits ( Will Pfeifer writes a sympathic, Constitution-flouting president), but the story is only loosely tied together. Most of the page space (which Pete Woods draws well) is mindless destruction of Washington, D.C. and Air Force One.
Worst of all, at the start of each issue, there's a paragraph or two that exposits what happened in crossover books. These aren't trivial plot points, but big stuff like Wonder Woman confronting Hippolyta or Nemesis getting poisoned. Thankfully, I read this right after Wonder Woman: Love and Murder, which is needed.
Amazons Attack feels like it was written by one of DC's line-wide editors. It's clearly a stepping stone to Final Crisis and other crossovers. There are some interesting bits ( Will Pfeifer writes a sympathic, Constitution-flouting president), but the story is only loosely tied together. Most of the page space (which Pete Woods draws well) is mindless destruction of Washington, D.C. and Air Force One.
Worst of all, at the start of each issue, there's a paragraph or two that exposits what happened in crossover books. These aren't trivial plot points, but big stuff like Wonder Woman confronting Hippolyta or Nemesis getting poisoned. Thankfully, I read this right after Wonder Woman: Love and Murder, which is needed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 16, 2017
First off let me just scream out GRANNY GOODNESS!! ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS BOOK?????
I'm giving the book 2 stars because it actually started off rather well and I was willing to over look certain things but then it became one of the most convoluted WW stories I have ever read.
That being said this was more a JLA book, I mean a veritable who's who of the JLA showed up. Bats, Supe, Black Canary, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Power Girl, Wonder Girl and Martian Manhunter to name a few.
Circe brings Hippolyta back from the dead and puts in motion all sorts of craziness. Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons attack the US because WW has been arrested by the Department of Meta Human Affairs. The weird thing is that this issue with WW was resolved in the prior volume. Another problem with the book is that they had these, what appeared to be summaries after each chapter but they were actually previews of what you were about to read WTF was that? I don't want a few paragraphs about what I'm about to read in panel form. Another thing is the carnage in the book is extremely unnecessary and definitely doesn't play out like a WW comic. I mean 85% of the book is the JLA fighting the Amazons. WW shows up a few times to confront her mother but then disappears time and again.
I was expecting some cathartic change when the book ended but I was worse off for wear. That shit was way out of left field and I didn't buy what they were selling.
I'm giving the book 2 stars because it actually started off rather well and I was willing to over look certain things but then it became one of the most convoluted WW stories I have ever read.
That being said this was more a JLA book, I mean a veritable who's who of the JLA showed up. Bats, Supe, Black Canary, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Power Girl, Wonder Girl and Martian Manhunter to name a few.
Circe brings Hippolyta back from the dead and puts in motion all sorts of craziness. Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons attack the US because WW has been arrested by the Department of Meta Human Affairs. The weird thing is that this issue with WW was resolved in the prior volume. Another problem with the book is that they had these, what appeared to be summaries after each chapter but they were actually previews of what you were about to read WTF was that? I don't want a few paragraphs about what I'm about to read in panel form. Another thing is the carnage in the book is extremely unnecessary and definitely doesn't play out like a WW comic. I mean 85% of the book is the JLA fighting the Amazons. WW shows up a few times to confront her mother but then disappears time and again.
I was expecting some cathartic change when the book ended but I was worse off for wear. That shit was way out of left field and I didn't buy what they were selling.
May 7, 2009
I really wanted to give this book at least a 3. I'm a big Wonder Woman fan but I can't. This book has a linked storyline to Love and Murder. Circe brings back Queen Hippolyta, tells her that the government has her daughter and that they are torturing WW to find out the Amazon's secrets. Hippolyta declares war on Amercia. I really don't see the Amazons killing innocent women and children. Something that bugged me to no end Where did the giants & dinosaur things come from? To me this book just didn't make sense esp. the end. I wasn't too pleased at the drawings either.
Just read Love and Murder it was much better! Better drawings too!
Just read Love and Murder it was much better! Better drawings too!
June 30, 2011
A fair amount of Wonder Woman's storyline occurs outside of this book which I found disappointing.
I thought this volume followed Wonder Woman: Love and Murder (Wonder Woman #6-10), but Amazons Attack! is apparently it's own run of Amazons Attack! #1-6. It actually backtracks the storyline a bit with plot elements that occurred in Love and Murder interspersed within Amazons Attack which is a bit confusing.
Perhaps Wonder Woman #11-13 aren't collected in a graphic novel since Wonder Woman: The Circle is comprised of Wonder Woman #14-19. I'm assuming issues #11-13 would fill in the gap where Wonder Woman goes to Themyscira, among other other things.
I thought this volume followed Wonder Woman: Love and Murder (Wonder Woman #6-10), but Amazons Attack! is apparently it's own run of Amazons Attack! #1-6. It actually backtracks the storyline a bit with plot elements that occurred in Love and Murder interspersed within Amazons Attack which is a bit confusing.
Perhaps Wonder Woman #11-13 aren't collected in a graphic novel since Wonder Woman: The Circle is comprised of Wonder Woman #14-19. I'm assuming issues #11-13 would fill in the gap where Wonder Woman goes to Themyscira, among other other things.
March 9, 2021
The War is Over.
This story has a faster pace as opposed to the previous graphic novel. The president is involved. Even Cassie & Kara make an appearance in one chapter. Who is pulling the strings??? Circe? Queen Hippolyta? The Bana? Find out in Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack! ⚔️
FLIPPING INTENSE!
January 9, 2012
Very silly book that in my opinion, should have never been published.
February 25, 2018
No, just . . . no.
I don't believe I've read anything else by Will Pfeiffer, so I can't speak to who he is as a writer or a person, but, man, this reads like he hates strong women (I'm not saying that he does--just that this reads like that). Let's just start with the first four pages (which include a 2-page splash of the Amazon army): in about 13 individual panels, 2 Amazon soldiers kill a father and young (maybe 10?) boy at the Lincoln Memorial, for just being there. So, a nation of women that for dozens of years was the example of balancing the tension of being warriors who believe in peaceful coexistence become brutal killers in the first pages of story.
This cross-over butchers almost every established female character who has a line in this book. Hippolyta is a bloodthirsty and cruel leader who has no real motivation for her unprovoked aggression against everyone (burning Kansas, attacking West Coast military installations, murdering tourists). Phillipus and Artemis--who led the Amazons after Hippolyta's abdication--are reduced to "generals" whose purpose is to speak reverently of the Hippolyta they used to know, wonder about the one they're dealing with, bemoan what's happening, and do nothing. Cassie and Supergirl attempt to kidnap the president for reasons that are never explained (aside from a vague "you and Hippolyta need to talk," because Hippolyta has shown how willing she is to talk and not, say, slaughter half of the U.S.), and seem surprised when that doesn't work out so well. Fortunately, Superman is there to fix their screwup. Grace Choi, whose been fighting Amazons in order to defend ordinary citizens, is willing to join up with "the Bana," an Amazon sect who is using technology to kill tons of people, because they tell her she's family. So principles be damned!
And that's the most offensive thing about this crossover. Women screw everything up, and the men are primarily the ones to fix it: Batman, developing strategy and appearing to have a better handle on things than WW; Superman cleaning up Cassie and Kara's mess, and talking sense to the Amazons; Green Arrow making sure there isn't a nuclear disaster, etc.
As others have also noted, the editing in this is a mess. Tons of stuff happens outside of the main story arc, and then there's a couple of paragraphs of "oh, this major event happened," and we're back to our increasingly incoherent story.
I read this for the sake of completeness (as I've been reading every other published post-Crisis WW story to the end of the new 52). From everything I'd read, I knew I wouldn't like it. But, really, I had no appreciation for how much I'd hate it. This is terribly bad, and the fact that it vilifies every major supporting female in WW's cast just makes it even more horrific.
I don't believe I've read anything else by Will Pfeiffer, so I can't speak to who he is as a writer or a person, but, man, this reads like he hates strong women (I'm not saying that he does--just that this reads like that). Let's just start with the first four pages (which include a 2-page splash of the Amazon army): in about 13 individual panels, 2 Amazon soldiers kill a father and young (maybe 10?) boy at the Lincoln Memorial, for just being there. So, a nation of women that for dozens of years was the example of balancing the tension of being warriors who believe in peaceful coexistence become brutal killers in the first pages of story.
This cross-over butchers almost every established female character who has a line in this book. Hippolyta is a bloodthirsty and cruel leader who has no real motivation for her unprovoked aggression against everyone (burning Kansas, attacking West Coast military installations, murdering tourists). Phillipus and Artemis--who led the Amazons after Hippolyta's abdication--are reduced to "generals" whose purpose is to speak reverently of the Hippolyta they used to know, wonder about the one they're dealing with, bemoan what's happening, and do nothing. Cassie and Supergirl attempt to kidnap the president for reasons that are never explained (aside from a vague "you and Hippolyta need to talk," because Hippolyta has shown how willing she is to talk and not, say, slaughter half of the U.S.), and seem surprised when that doesn't work out so well. Fortunately, Superman is there to fix their screwup. Grace Choi, whose been fighting Amazons in order to defend ordinary citizens, is willing to join up with "the Bana," an Amazon sect who is using technology to kill tons of people, because they tell her she's family. So principles be damned!
And that's the most offensive thing about this crossover. Women screw everything up, and the men are primarily the ones to fix it: Batman, developing strategy and appearing to have a better handle on things than WW; Superman cleaning up Cassie and Kara's mess, and talking sense to the Amazons; Green Arrow making sure there isn't a nuclear disaster, etc.
As others have also noted, the editing in this is a mess. Tons of stuff happens outside of the main story arc, and then there's a couple of paragraphs of "oh, this major event happened," and we're back to our increasingly incoherent story.
I read this for the sake of completeness (as I've been reading every other published post-Crisis WW story to the end of the new 52). From everything I'd read, I knew I wouldn't like it. But, really, I had no appreciation for how much I'd hate it. This is terribly bad, and the fact that it vilifies every major supporting female in WW's cast just makes it even more horrific.
June 27, 2018
*Heavy sigh*
Comic books always do this don't they? interesting characters, exciting action, complex story threads....all leading to the same damn place. The day is saved for now but the big bad is coming.
In this story Wonder Woman's mother attacks America for...reasons that seem to change on a dime (I think the writer couldn't decide).
This leads to a savage, brutal war that we see in broad strokes.
It all comes down to a final showdown, no a reveal, no a deus ex machina, no a double swerve.
Its all well and good and then cue the evil cackle for the stage is set for HIM again.
Ho-hum. A fun ride but it doesn't take you anywhere new.
Comic books always do this don't they? interesting characters, exciting action, complex story threads....all leading to the same damn place. The day is saved for now but the big bad is coming.
In this story Wonder Woman's mother attacks America for...reasons that seem to change on a dime (I think the writer couldn't decide).
This leads to a savage, brutal war that we see in broad strokes.
It all comes down to a final showdown, no a reveal, no a deus ex machina, no a double swerve.
Its all well and good and then cue the evil cackle for the stage is set for HIM again.
Ho-hum. A fun ride but it doesn't take you anywhere new.
November 21, 2018
3 stars because this book was ok book to read
March 4, 2012
When we went to the library yesterday, hubby found this book and because he knows I love Wonder Woman, he showed it to me. Of course, I had to borrow it and decided to get stuck into it today.
Circe resurrect Queen Hippolyta and when she asks about her daughter Diana, Circe tells her the American government has her. The queen then declares war on mankind by unleashing the Amazons on American soil to destroy them. While the Justice League tries to protect humans and Wonder Woman confronts her mother to try and end this senseless war...
It started out pretty well. I liked the character list at the front, and the story seemed like it was going somewhere. For a while. Then, a lot of stuff started to happen behind the scenes. Some of what was going on didn't make much sense. And the more I read, the more the story seemed disjointed--jumping from here to there, and back again without making sense.
In the end, I found the disjointed events to be more confusing than anything else. Which is a real shame since I love Wonder Woman. Though to be honest, she really wasn't in it much. Or seemed very important to the overall story, even though the whole war thing starts because of her. Strange.
The drawings are nice. Even if most of the women look the same--young, with big boobs and muscled bodies. :/ At least Wonder Woman looked cool.
Circe resurrect Queen Hippolyta and when she asks about her daughter Diana, Circe tells her the American government has her. The queen then declares war on mankind by unleashing the Amazons on American soil to destroy them. While the Justice League tries to protect humans and Wonder Woman confronts her mother to try and end this senseless war...
It started out pretty well. I liked the character list at the front, and the story seemed like it was going somewhere. For a while. Then, a lot of stuff started to happen behind the scenes. Some of what was going on didn't make much sense. And the more I read, the more the story seemed disjointed--jumping from here to there, and back again without making sense.
In the end, I found the disjointed events to be more confusing than anything else. Which is a real shame since I love Wonder Woman. Though to be honest, she really wasn't in it much. Or seemed very important to the overall story, even though the whole war thing starts because of her. Strange.
The drawings are nice. Even if most of the women look the same--young, with big boobs and muscled bodies. :/ At least Wonder Woman looked cool.
May 5, 2025
Amazons Attack! is a disjointed tale of mass murder and incomplete storylines. A fair bit of this event happens outside the pages of this book, as it is a crossover that spans multiple titles. So just nod along while the characters explain their respective resolutions rather than watching the stories unfold.
This is isn't Wonder Woman at her finest. This is hardly even Wonder Woman at her most present. She'll stop by once or twice, but mostly you're treated to Amazons butchering the shit out of innocent people. So if you enjoy watching children being put to the sword, you'll get a kick out of this one.
This is isn't Wonder Woman at her finest. This is hardly even Wonder Woman at her most present. She'll stop by once or twice, but mostly you're treated to Amazons butchering the shit out of innocent people. So if you enjoy watching children being put to the sword, you'll get a kick out of this one.
October 23, 2011
I have never disliked a Wonder Woman book, until now. There as something very wrong with the way this book was portrayed women, like strong women have no self control, no intelligence and can't do anything right unless they have a man to lead the (enter Superman and Batman). No, I did not like this book at all.
June 2, 2016
This book is amazing! If you find this book, read it
February 25, 2018
Insanely awesome!!! Nuff said. Was not expecting that ending.
July 23, 2020
Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack!
Amazons Attack! is a six-issue comic book limited series. It is about the Amazons attacking the world after Wonder Woman has been kidnapped and tortured by humans. I'm just gonna go right though it, this is one of the worst DC events I have ever read. It is another one of those stories that relies way too much on tie-ins.
Shadowland is an example of those, but this thing is even worse. None of the things that are happening here makes any sense. What's worse is that the books constantly reminds you to read this tie-ins to know what's gonna happen and seriously annoyed me on how that they relied heavily too much on its tie-ins.
What's worse is that the story isn't even good. It doesn't make any sense, especially the characters here. They all act out of characters, especially the Amazons. It is I think my biggest problem in this story. The writing is also subpar and I really didn't liked the art here either. It also just ended without any consequences whatsoever.
Again, I absolutely hated what they did to the characters here. It's normal in a event for characters to not act themselves, but here it is just insulting. So overall, this story is really bad. Bad writing and artwork and the story didn't make any sense and relies way too much on tie-ins. Barely anything happens and the characters here are bad as well.
1/10
Amazons Attack! is a six-issue comic book limited series. It is about the Amazons attacking the world after Wonder Woman has been kidnapped and tortured by humans. I'm just gonna go right though it, this is one of the worst DC events I have ever read. It is another one of those stories that relies way too much on tie-ins.
Shadowland is an example of those, but this thing is even worse. None of the things that are happening here makes any sense. What's worse is that the books constantly reminds you to read this tie-ins to know what's gonna happen and seriously annoyed me on how that they relied heavily too much on its tie-ins.
What's worse is that the story isn't even good. It doesn't make any sense, especially the characters here. They all act out of characters, especially the Amazons. It is I think my biggest problem in this story. The writing is also subpar and I really didn't liked the art here either. It also just ended without any consequences whatsoever.
Again, I absolutely hated what they did to the characters here. It's normal in a event for characters to not act themselves, but here it is just insulting. So overall, this story is really bad. Bad writing and artwork and the story didn't make any sense and relies way too much on tie-ins. Barely anything happens and the characters here are bad as well.
1/10
May 18, 2017
The biggest flaw of this graphic novel collection is that it becomes very apparent that you are missing part of the story by not reading whatever tie-ins DC made along with this event. It appears many of these could have occurred within certain titles published at the time (i.e. teen titans, wonder woman, and supergirl seem like the obvious choices based on content). This lack of a full story makes for uneven reading and takes away some of the overall enjoyment of reading a Wonder Woman event. There have been few events centered around this particular character and her world, so it is sad that this was one of them. It also sucked that one of the characters we should have seen, Donna Troy, is swept off and we are not told what we should read to understand what was going on with her story. She just seems to disappear. It was overall a frustrating read, but rooted in what could have been an amazing storyline. It just is very poorly executed.
April 19, 2020
I read this along with ‘who is wonder woman’ and ‘love and murder’ to fill in the gaps at the start of the Gail Simone omnibus.
Despite all the hate and conclusion jumping in other reviews, I actually really enjoyed this.
Firstly it is a companion run to the ‘love and Murder’ arc so reading it without reading that is just stupid. It ties in directly and we get a nice summary before each issue to explain where this part of the ‘war’ ties into the main run. It would have been nice to have it collected together but reads just fine all the same.
Secondly this is a multiple manipulation story so any hate from the Amazons is expected and deliberately out of character as they are not of sane mind.
Finally, I found the build quality of this book to be great. Sewn binding is few and far between on tiny standard hardcovers so its much appreciated that they took the time to collect this in a quality manner.
Despite all the hate and conclusion jumping in other reviews, I actually really enjoyed this.
Firstly it is a companion run to the ‘love and Murder’ arc so reading it without reading that is just stupid. It ties in directly and we get a nice summary before each issue to explain where this part of the ‘war’ ties into the main run. It would have been nice to have it collected together but reads just fine all the same.
Secondly this is a multiple manipulation story so any hate from the Amazons is expected and deliberately out of character as they are not of sane mind.
Finally, I found the build quality of this book to be great. Sewn binding is few and far between on tiny standard hardcovers so its much appreciated that they took the time to collect this in a quality manner.
August 3, 2023
I had passed on this for some time, mostly because it seemed like a meh event book from DC. With a new Amazons Attack coming from DC in a few months I thought I'd burn through this (which excludes the few crossover issues) to see if the new series will be better.
Right now my thought is that is cannot be much worse. Hippolyta, at Circe's urging, decides the USA has kidnapped Wonder Woman, is holding her hostage, and hey why not attack a sovereign nation as a response? Yeah, that sounds like a sensible way to get your kid back in once piece.
Most of the Amazons, including Artemis are not well served here, especially Diana and Hippolyta. Pfeifer does a good job at showing how such an attack could be staged on US soil in such a universe, but as as feeling this series was a big deal?
Nope.
Right now my thought is that is cannot be much worse. Hippolyta, at Circe's urging, decides the USA has kidnapped Wonder Woman, is holding her hostage, and hey why not attack a sovereign nation as a response? Yeah, that sounds like a sensible way to get your kid back in once piece.
Most of the Amazons, including Artemis are not well served here, especially Diana and Hippolyta. Pfeifer does a good job at showing how such an attack could be staged on US soil in such a universe, but as as feeling this series was a big deal?
Nope.
December 10, 2020
Amazon-ingly bad! Somehow managed to exceed my expectations and is truly the worst comic I've ever read.
The art and writing would make a middling comic if the way this volume was put together didn't miss out half the plot. It's not the fault of the creative team whatsoever, but the fault of whoever was in charge of compiling it all.
If you're in the mood for something so bad it'll bring you heaps of joy, this is the comic to read.
The art and writing would make a middling comic if the way this volume was put together didn't miss out half the plot. It's not the fault of the creative team whatsoever, but the fault of whoever was in charge of compiling it all.
If you're in the mood for something so bad it'll bring you heaps of joy, this is the comic to read.
July 14, 2021
Unfortunately, the story was disjointed and had too many tie ins. I felt like I only read half the story because it seemed like every few pages there was an asterisk referring me to another issue. It's unfortunate because I get how the story could have been great, but with the story spread out through so many issues it's hard to keep any consistence.
In the end however, there was an interest twist that was totally unexpected, but I don't know if it was worth it.
In the end however, there was an interest twist that was totally unexpected, but I don't know if it was worth it.
January 28, 2018
This feels incomplete. Key scenes are missing/happen in other comics and it is awful. The story could be good, but it isn’t and that sucks?
And where were The Flashes? I don’t remember one showing up.
And where were The Flashes? I don’t remember one showing up.
April 28, 2018
I'm sure I've been reading these out of order, but even so, they are so fascinating. It's interesting seeing familiar characters, like Dinah and Black Lightning, in the JLA after all of their backstories and histories. Such an intriguing read!
June 6, 2018
Ok, I agree with lot of the other reviewers that the editing did take away some interesting parts of the story. Those parts should have been elaborated on. However, I enjoyed the overall story. I just wish there could have been more of it.
May 17, 2019
Standard superhero story, fairly entertaining. Wasn't a fan of those recap pages about stuff the reader didn't actually get to see, but this is only my second larger comic so maybe that's standard? No complaints otherwise though.
July 23, 2021
3/5
This was so much better than I expected.
I actually wish the DCU adapted a darker storyline like this one for WW.
The ending was a mess, tho. + it intertwines with so many other stories that it can get overwhelming but overall it's easy to catch up.
This was so much better than I expected.
I actually wish the DCU adapted a darker storyline like this one for WW.
The ending was a mess, tho. + it intertwines with so many other stories that it can get overwhelming but overall it's easy to catch up.
June 22, 2017
4.5 stars
Full review to come.
Full review to come.
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