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Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1-3
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Vol. 1
Millennia ago, Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts…and far from their sight, they put a plan into action. A new society was born, one never before seen on Earth, capable of wondrous and terrible things…but their existence could not stay secret for long. When a despairing woman named Hippolyta crossed the Amazons’ path, a series of events was set in motion that would lead to an outright war across heaven and Earth-and the creation of Earth’s greatest guardian! Legendary talents Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott unleash a critically lauded and Eisner Award-winning reading experience the likes of which you’ve never seen, with unbelievably sumptuous art and a story that will haunt you. Collects Wonder Woman The Amazons #1-3.
188 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 6, 2023
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Kelly Sue DeConnick
365 books2,233 followersKelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film and television. Ms. DeConnick first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing the Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times best-sellers and been honored with Eisner Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Hugo nominations.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
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August 26, 2024
The origin of the Amazons.
It has certainly been done before, but this was truly amazing.
It's told partially through Hippolyta and partially through the Greek goddesses, neither of whom are excessively happy with their lot in life.
The goddesses are full up with Zeus and the rest of the pantheon of male gods. Not even being an immortal can save them from being considered second-class citizens, and as they watch their Earthly counterparts, rage begins to grow and bloom into a new idea - a tribe of warrior women created to right the wrongs caused by men.
Hippolyta is on the verge of a breakdown when a group of Amazons saves her life. And she spends the rest of the book tracking them, becoming one of them, starting her own tribe, and eventually through spoilery circumstances, becoming their queen.
I'm sure everyone has already said it but I've got to add that this is some of the most stunning art I've seen in a comic in a while.
This was well worth the read.
Highly Recommended.
It has certainly been done before, but this was truly amazing.
It's told partially through Hippolyta and partially through the Greek goddesses, neither of whom are excessively happy with their lot in life.
The goddesses are full up with Zeus and the rest of the pantheon of male gods. Not even being an immortal can save them from being considered second-class citizens, and as they watch their Earthly counterparts, rage begins to grow and bloom into a new idea - a tribe of warrior women created to right the wrongs caused by men.
Hippolyta is on the verge of a breakdown when a group of Amazons saves her life. And she spends the rest of the book tracking them, becoming one of them, starting her own tribe, and eventually through spoilery circumstances, becoming their queen.
I'm sure everyone has already said it but I've got to add that this is some of the most stunning art I've seen in a comic in a while.
This was well worth the read.
Highly Recommended.
June 4, 2024
Wowsers!
Even as she stands among queens and goddesses, Hippolyta is THE QUEEN.
Kelly Sue Deconnick teams up with three superstar artists to give a beautiful and enthralling new perspective on the history of the Amazons.
For a long-time Wonder Woman fanboy like me, this is pure catnip: a tribute to all that has come before that also shows why these characters will persist for ages to come.
FOR REFERENCE:
Trivia: Gene Ha has one two-page spread in Book Two that pays tribute to women throughout history. He lays out the names and inspirations behind all the cameos here:
https://www.tumblr.com/thegeneha/6814...
Contents: Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book One / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Phil Jimenez, illustrator -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book Two / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Gene Ha, illustrator -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book Three / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Nicola Scott, illustrator -- Guide to the Amazon Tribes, with Design Notes / Phil Jimenez -- Hidden Figures / Gene Ha -- Behind the Panels / Nicola Scott -- Variant Covers / Olivier Coipel, Becky Cloonan, and Yanick Paquette, illustrators -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Pitch / Kelly Sue Deconnick -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Awards / Phil Jimenez -- About the Creators
(Best of 2023 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto one or more of these lists:
• Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2023
• Publishers Weekly 2023 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
• NPR's Books We Love 2023: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels
This book made the NPR list.)
Even as she stands among queens and goddesses, Hippolyta is THE QUEEN.
Kelly Sue Deconnick teams up with three superstar artists to give a beautiful and enthralling new perspective on the history of the Amazons.
For a long-time Wonder Woman fanboy like me, this is pure catnip: a tribute to all that has come before that also shows why these characters will persist for ages to come.
FOR REFERENCE:
Trivia: Gene Ha has one two-page spread in Book Two that pays tribute to women throughout history. He lays out the names and inspirations behind all the cameos here:
https://www.tumblr.com/thegeneha/6814...
Contents: Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book One / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Phil Jimenez, illustrator -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book Two / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Gene Ha, illustrator -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Book Three / Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer; Nicola Scott, illustrator -- Guide to the Amazon Tribes, with Design Notes / Phil Jimenez -- Hidden Figures / Gene Ha -- Behind the Panels / Nicola Scott -- Variant Covers / Olivier Coipel, Becky Cloonan, and Yanick Paquette, illustrators -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Pitch / Kelly Sue Deconnick -- Wonder Woman Historia: The Awards / Phil Jimenez -- About the Creators
(Best of 2023 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto one or more of these lists:
• Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2023
• Publishers Weekly 2023 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
• NPR's Books We Love 2023: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels
This book made the NPR list.)
September 13, 2023
This is not really about Wonder Woman, but rather about the foundation of the Amazons. As most readers of Wonder Woman may know, the series has multiple versions of how the Amazons were founded and how Wonder Woman came to be. This book is an attempt to make sense of all of these origins by telling the story from the Amazons' point of view. Actually, there are quite a few scenes that take place in the realms of the Greek gods and goddesses, so the goddesses' point of view also takes center stage. The story itself was very satisfying. As a fan of Greek mythology, I always enjoy Wonder Woman stories that involve it. Also, the story has much to say about gender in society, which has always been a theme of the Wonder Woman series.
The one weak point of this book is the art. It is divided into three sections, with a different artist working on each section. Each artist is good, but the inconsistencies across the three parts are distracting. For example, the first artist draws Hippolyta as a woman of color who has darker skin and curly hair when compared to the Greeks around her. However, the second artist clearly draws her as a white woman. Another example is how Hera's personality seems to change across the artists based on how they draw her facial expressions. For example, the first artist draws Hera as having a regal personality whereas the second artist always seems to draw her with an irritated look on her face. These little differences don't affect the story much, but it does affect immersion in world of the story. I would have preferred if the entire book were drawn by one artist. Having said that, it is still a book worth reading.
The one weak point of this book is the art. It is divided into three sections, with a different artist working on each section. Each artist is good, but the inconsistencies across the three parts are distracting. For example, the first artist draws Hippolyta as a woman of color who has darker skin and curly hair when compared to the Greeks around her. However, the second artist clearly draws her as a white woman. Another example is how Hera's personality seems to change across the artists based on how they draw her facial expressions. For example, the first artist draws Hera as having a regal personality whereas the second artist always seems to draw her with an irritated look on her face. These little differences don't affect the story much, but it does affect immersion in world of the story. I would have preferred if the entire book were drawn by one artist. Having said that, it is still a book worth reading.
January 31, 2023
It is not unfair to say that this is DC Comics history for the beginnings of Amazon civilization and culture the same way the much older Atlantis Chronicles was for Atlantis. Does that makes this canon, is this something the average or casual reader should be concerned about?
No.
The hardcore fanboys and canon holders will give their gripes, I'm certain. Those who are better versed in Greek myths than I likely will to, if they read this.
This is a very well put together piece, both in its writing, art, and thought is given to how Greek gods interacted with themselves and humans. The role multiple goddesses and eventually Hippolyta play in forging the society meanders a little, but is the creation of any society truly a straight line journey?
I would suggest reading this all at once (I read this as digital floppies over time) because I think that will help with keeping the various relationships between characters better in mind (Games of Thrones has nothing on this, the Greek and Egyptian myths could get quite convoluted on their own in my opinion).
No.
The hardcore fanboys and canon holders will give their gripes, I'm certain. Those who are better versed in Greek myths than I likely will to, if they read this.
This is a very well put together piece, both in its writing, art, and thought is given to how Greek gods interacted with themselves and humans. The role multiple goddesses and eventually Hippolyta play in forging the society meanders a little, but is the creation of any society truly a straight line journey?
I would suggest reading this all at once (I read this as digital floppies over time) because I think that will help with keeping the various relationships between characters better in mind (Games of Thrones has nothing on this, the Greek and Egyptian myths could get quite convoluted on their own in my opinion).
January 4, 2026
In a world of slavery, inequality, male brutality, and sexual injustice. Hera, being able to see it all, as the Goddess of women and Divinity, becomes fed up with the way women are treated. So, she gathers her six Sister-Goddesses, to seek an audience with the king of the Gods, Zeus, but their pleas are quickly sidelined and disregarded. The women then reconvene secretly in Tartarus, at the Well of the Lost, where the souls of all women who lost their lives in unjust violence reside. They offer parts of themselves as Sacrifices or gifts to these souls and use them to create 30 Amazons. 30 divine warriors who came in tribes of five, devoted to each goddess: Hestia, Demeter, Artemis, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hecate, except their leader, Hera, who wasn’t present for the occasion.
Enter Hippolyta, a mortal widow, who loses her shit due to guilt, after being forced to abandon a female baby in a river for not being born male. She is found completely worn out after searching tirelessly for the child, and saved from slavers by the Amazons, who now travel the lands at night, hidden from the Gods, and exacting vengeance on evil men while helping liberate women. Hippolyta becomes obsessed with the Amazons and spends a few years unsuccessful tracking them down until she is helped by Artemis. She finds and convinces them to allow the women they save to join them, forming a seventh Amazon tribe of mortals devoted to all the Goddesses. And so the new mortal Amazons make Hippolyta their queen, and learn medicine, architecture, weapon making/usage, and the art of battle from their divine sisters, as they all low-key become popular and their numbers expand massively, with the Male Gods completely unaware.
Trouble starts when a young, temperamental new Amazon kills a cruel slaver boy during the day, in front of Apollo’s temple. Apollo, now aware of everything, exposes the goddess's plans to Zeus, who sends Hercules to kill the Amazons. Hestia warns the Amazons, who work together, manage to kill and dismember Hercules, and send his body back to Zeus. This angers the God King, who sends wave after wave of soldiers, monsters, and Gods at the Amazons, as the war rages on for weeks. Hestia slowly starts to become sick of losing and burying her sisters, and Hera convinces Dionysus to do her a favor so some of his gifted female followers currently among the Amazons, wouldn’t perish. After watching a lot more of her sisters die, and the Amazon girl who exposed them fatally injured, Hippolyta, with the help of Artemis, gains an audience with Zeus to plead the surrender of the Amazons so her sisters may be spared. At the same time, the easily manipulated Apollo tells Zeus to let them live forever to suffer their defeat, for he had been convinced by Dionysus that a glorious death in battle was not befitting enough a punishment for the sins of the Amazons.
Zeus demands an offering in order to accept their surrender, and decides to take the Amazons’ freedom and the soul of the Girl who offended Apollo by killing at his temple. He resurrects all the fallen Amazons and confines them all to an island where the sun only sets once a month, so Apollo can keep a watchful eye on them. On the island, Hippolyta remembers the baby she abandoned in the river and molds a model of it out of sand. That’s when Hera, who had taken the child from the river, plants her soul into the sand mold, bringing the baby to life and writing her name in the sand; Diana. Damn! This is an A+ story, with A+ art. I know a lot of people have probably said the same thing after reading this, but it needs to be said either way. This is some of the best art I’ve seen in any comic book I’ve read, period. Everyone should just drop whatever they’re doing right now, get a copy of this book, and just look at the panels. It’s that good!
Enter Hippolyta, a mortal widow, who loses her shit due to guilt, after being forced to abandon a female baby in a river for not being born male. She is found completely worn out after searching tirelessly for the child, and saved from slavers by the Amazons, who now travel the lands at night, hidden from the Gods, and exacting vengeance on evil men while helping liberate women. Hippolyta becomes obsessed with the Amazons and spends a few years unsuccessful tracking them down until she is helped by Artemis. She finds and convinces them to allow the women they save to join them, forming a seventh Amazon tribe of mortals devoted to all the Goddesses. And so the new mortal Amazons make Hippolyta their queen, and learn medicine, architecture, weapon making/usage, and the art of battle from their divine sisters, as they all low-key become popular and their numbers expand massively, with the Male Gods completely unaware.
Trouble starts when a young, temperamental new Amazon kills a cruel slaver boy during the day, in front of Apollo’s temple. Apollo, now aware of everything, exposes the goddess's plans to Zeus, who sends Hercules to kill the Amazons. Hestia warns the Amazons, who work together, manage to kill and dismember Hercules, and send his body back to Zeus. This angers the God King, who sends wave after wave of soldiers, monsters, and Gods at the Amazons, as the war rages on for weeks. Hestia slowly starts to become sick of losing and burying her sisters, and Hera convinces Dionysus to do her a favor so some of his gifted female followers currently among the Amazons, wouldn’t perish. After watching a lot more of her sisters die, and the Amazon girl who exposed them fatally injured, Hippolyta, with the help of Artemis, gains an audience with Zeus to plead the surrender of the Amazons so her sisters may be spared. At the same time, the easily manipulated Apollo tells Zeus to let them live forever to suffer their defeat, for he had been convinced by Dionysus that a glorious death in battle was not befitting enough a punishment for the sins of the Amazons.
Zeus demands an offering in order to accept their surrender, and decides to take the Amazons’ freedom and the soul of the Girl who offended Apollo by killing at his temple. He resurrects all the fallen Amazons and confines them all to an island where the sun only sets once a month, so Apollo can keep a watchful eye on them. On the island, Hippolyta remembers the baby she abandoned in the river and molds a model of it out of sand. That’s when Hera, who had taken the child from the river, plants her soul into the sand mold, bringing the baby to life and writing her name in the sand; Diana. Damn! This is an A+ story, with A+ art. I know a lot of people have probably said the same thing after reading this, but it needs to be said either way. This is some of the best art I’ve seen in any comic book I’ve read, period. Everyone should just drop whatever they’re doing right now, get a copy of this book, and just look at the panels. It’s that good!
April 10, 2024
After reading so many rapturous reviews of this one I think I was only setting myself up for disappointment.
It's a perfectly good retelling of the origin story of the Amazons and how it ties in to Greek Mythology, etc., with some very good character design and gorgeous colouring but my socks remained firmly on my feet throughout.
I might have been better disposed to it if I hadn't spent so much of the past few years reading George O'Connor's Olympians series of Graphic Novels or listening to Stephen Fry's wonderfully entertaining Mythos series, so don't just go by me!
It's a perfectly good retelling of the origin story of the Amazons and how it ties in to Greek Mythology, etc., with some very good character design and gorgeous colouring but my socks remained firmly on my feet throughout.
I might have been better disposed to it if I hadn't spent so much of the past few years reading George O'Connor's Olympians series of Graphic Novels or listening to Stephen Fry's wonderfully entertaining Mythos series, so don't just go by me!
February 25, 2023
(Originally published on issue 1 of the series)
Where do I begin? Well since comics should be prided for their art first and foremost I will state in complete and total sincerity that this series has the best art I have ever seen in comic books. Not just superheroes or even american comics. Worldwide artists. The colors, the painterly illustrations, the minimal use of inking to give it a renaissance feel with a modern kineticism of comic book art. It's breathtaking. Amazon and the Greek gods have been re-imagined in the most breath taking way imaginable. I'm serious. Not even movies can compare to the beauty of this miniseries. If James Cameron read this he would cry because he couldn't think of these images. I think maybe only Mira Nair with a huge budget could do this story justice if it were on the big screen. But it's a comic. Not a template for a movie.
The story is the most beautiful and epic fairy tale of a (bittersweet) Greek tragedy you could find. A story about freedom, honor, womanhood, being marginalized and finally standing your ground. This story acts as an origin about Themiscyra and Hippolyta in a very beautiful way. I'm adoring how DC is doing this right now with both this location and Tom King's very cool Gotham City Year One, a pulpy noir detective story. That's the excitement of DC's world. Marvel largely (with the exception being Wakanda) lives in our world. But fictional worlds can and should mirror ours in order to make us go back into our lives and see what we should do to fix our world. This book ahhhh! JUST READ IT!
Where do I begin? Well since comics should be prided for their art first and foremost I will state in complete and total sincerity that this series has the best art I have ever seen in comic books. Not just superheroes or even american comics. Worldwide artists. The colors, the painterly illustrations, the minimal use of inking to give it a renaissance feel with a modern kineticism of comic book art. It's breathtaking. Amazon and the Greek gods have been re-imagined in the most breath taking way imaginable. I'm serious. Not even movies can compare to the beauty of this miniseries. If James Cameron read this he would cry because he couldn't think of these images. I think maybe only Mira Nair with a huge budget could do this story justice if it were on the big screen. But it's a comic. Not a template for a movie.
The story is the most beautiful and epic fairy tale of a (bittersweet) Greek tragedy you could find. A story about freedom, honor, womanhood, being marginalized and finally standing your ground. This story acts as an origin about Themiscyra and Hippolyta in a very beautiful way. I'm adoring how DC is doing this right now with both this location and Tom King's very cool Gotham City Year One, a pulpy noir detective story. That's the excitement of DC's world. Marvel largely (with the exception being Wakanda) lives in our world. But fictional worlds can and should mirror ours in order to make us go back into our lives and see what we should do to fix our world. This book ahhhh! JUST READ IT!
February 20, 2024
Despite Wonder Woman being in the title, this is actually the history of the Amazons before WW's arrival. Plan accordingly.
The artwork is the main draw. Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott each tackle one of the three extra-long issues packaged here. What they produce is simply stunning. Jimenez's artwork is the most detailed (and simultaneously hard to discern) of the lot. My favorite was probably Scott's soft pencil lines. All told, well worth picking up Historia for the artwork alone.
Fortunately, Kelly Sue DeConnick does a nice job with the words too. The first issue includes a lot of God-level hijinks, which can be hard to follow. Fortunately, we shift to Hippolyta's human tale as she struggles to become (and then lead) the Amazons. Historia ends with the big confrontation between the Gods and Amazons that led to their banishment to Themyscira - it's truly thrilling to behold, particularly with the vast, imaginative artwork.
The end materials hint at two additional volumes of Historia, which I certainly hope come to be!
The artwork is the main draw. Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott each tackle one of the three extra-long issues packaged here. What they produce is simply stunning. Jimenez's artwork is the most detailed (and simultaneously hard to discern) of the lot. My favorite was probably Scott's soft pencil lines. All told, well worth picking up Historia for the artwork alone.
Fortunately, Kelly Sue DeConnick does a nice job with the words too. The first issue includes a lot of God-level hijinks, which can be hard to follow. Fortunately, we shift to Hippolyta's human tale as she struggles to become (and then lead) the Amazons. Historia ends with the big confrontation between the Gods and Amazons that led to their banishment to Themyscira - it's truly thrilling to behold, particularly with the vast, imaginative artwork.
The end materials hint at two additional volumes of Historia, which I certainly hope come to be!
May 15, 2023
Certainly one of the better looking DC comics out there.
This is the origin on the Amazons and shows the split between the goddesses of Olympia and the Gods like Zeus. And leads up to the creation of Wonder Woman, although she's not actually in the book.
Book 1 - drawn by Phil Jimenez. Jimenez just blows it away here. I read this digitally but went out and bought a physical copy of this issue after.
Book 2 (Gene Ha) and Book 3 (Nicola Scott with Annette Kwok) although not quite as mind-blowing are beautiful as well.
This is the origin on the Amazons and shows the split between the goddesses of Olympia and the Gods like Zeus. And leads up to the creation of Wonder Woman, although she's not actually in the book.
Book 1 - drawn by Phil Jimenez. Jimenez just blows it away here. I read this digitally but went out and bought a physical copy of this issue after.
Book 2 (Gene Ha) and Book 3 (Nicola Scott with Annette Kwok) although not quite as mind-blowing are beautiful as well.
May 13, 2023
Every time I’m about to read yet another origin story, I seem to groan a little before starting, wondering if this could possibly provide some new perspective on stories that have been beaten to death. However this was one of those occasions where I was left stunned by the creativity. If you are beginning to lose a little faith in DC, pick this one up. Reading this story for the artwork alone is spectacular.
May 4, 2025
Я сама не вірю в те, що зараз кажу, але... кайфанула від комікса DC 💀
Довго боялася брати його гортати, бо я і геройські комікси — це як вода й олія, влити можна, а толку?
✨ Але "Диво-жінка. Історія: Амазонки" виявилося не тим, чого я завжди боюся, а тим, що подобається. Отже, тут ми маємо альтернативну історію виникнення амазонок, в якій замішані Олімпійці і люди, звісно же.
✨ Масштабна епічна історія оповідає про зради й відданість, кохання й помсту, жертовність та заздрість, а ще — про несправедливий світ, який належить чоловікам і про те, як богині вирішили це змінити.
⭐️ Намальовано просто офігенскі, кольори — бімба. Хоча й не без смішних моментів, зокрема подивіться на це хлєбалушко немовляти на останньому фото, яке каже "еееее", таке враження, що в неї вже два розлучення і одне вдівство за плечима.
⭐️ Дуже порадував образ Афродити 💀 Хто буде читати — зрозуміє. Та і в цілому можна роздивлятися силу-силену деталей, шрихів, переходів та того, як воно все зливається (і розливається).
Одне погано: дуже важко тримати в руках і людям, які вже перейшли у категорію "зір в мене нормальний, це просто руки короткі" читати без допомоги друга буде непросто.
Однозначно #Дафа_радить навіть якщо ви не по картинках 👀
Довго боялася брати його гортати, бо я і геройські комікси — це як вода й олія, влити можна, а толку?
✨ Але "Диво-жінка. Історія: Амазонки" виявилося не тим, чого я завжди боюся, а тим, що подобається. Отже, тут ми маємо альтернативну історію виникнення амазонок, в якій замішані Олімпійці і люди, звісно же.
✨ Масштабна епічна історія оповідає про зради й відданість, кохання й помсту, жертовність та заздрість, а ще — про несправедливий світ, який належить чоловікам і про те, як богині вирішили це змінити.
⭐️ Намальовано просто офігенскі, кольори — бімба. Хоча й не без смішних моментів, зокрема подивіться на це хлєбалушко немовляти на останньому фото, яке каже "еееее", таке враження, що в неї вже два розлучення і одне вдівство за плечима.
⭐️ Дуже порадував образ Афродити 💀 Хто буде читати — зрозуміє. Та і в цілому можна роздивлятися силу-силену деталей, шрихів, переходів та того, як воно все зливається (і розливається).
Одне погано: дуже важко тримати в руках і людям, які вже перейшли у категорію "зір в мене нормальний, це просто руки короткі" читати без допомоги друга буде непросто.
Однозначно #Дафа_радить навіть якщо ви не по картинках 👀
August 8, 2023
I almost always enjoy Wonder Woman (even the weird mod stuff), but this book blew me away. The idea of telling the Amazons' origin in their own voice is one that surely should have been hit on before now, but I'm still glad that this author is the one who wrote it. There's a timeless quality to the way that all of the characters see themselves, and the sheer temerity of the men to say that they're picked on and put upon when they're called to task for their crimes against women is...unfortunately familiar. (Not all men, I know.) Whiny baby Apollo is a particularly striking example, as is the way Zeus refers to all of the Olympian goddesses as "girls" and then doesn't understand why they're upset with him and his management of humanity. The book also does a good job of capturing the impossible position Hera finds herself in - afraid to rebel against her abusive husband, but punished for the rebellion of the other women anyway. The art is spectacular throughout (albeit very busy), and if the other two projected volumes don't happen, I will be very sad.
July 8, 2025
Dude, this is easily in the top 5 greatest comics I've ever read. I wish I had read it sooner. I thought it may concern some storylines I haven't caught up to yet, but you can go into this knowing next to nothing about Wonder Woman and the Amazons. It definitely helps to have a working knowledge of them, but this is an origin story.
I need a copy of this in my personal library.
I need a copy of this in my personal library.
August 16, 2024
An overall creative and well-executed take on the origin of the Amazons, but it would have been nice to have seen Wonder Woman as she appears on the cover in an epilogue.
August 28, 2023
Despite that some people I highly respect loved this comic, and how beautiful its art is…the writing is seriously lacking consistency. It starts incredibly promising and poetic, but then becomes page after page of repeatedly talking about how shitty men are. I get it. I got it the first time you said it. But the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and so on…it begins to sound amateur lime you failed to get your point across and have to keep trying. On top of thst the characters dialogue seem like they are written by multiple people as they are constantly taken out of character reminding me that I am reading someones writing rather than enthralling me into the story.
Sorry. I wanted to like it. And I hate men as much as you women do. But the art, story, and writing was just way too mismatched for me to enjoy. This isn’t what I look for in a graphic novel.
Sorry. I wanted to like it. And I hate men as much as you women do. But the art, story, and writing was just way too mismatched for me to enjoy. This isn’t what I look for in a graphic novel.
June 27, 2023
Breathtakingly gorgeous artwork and a powerful, intense story. A masterpiece!
October 11, 2024
Buena historia de origen donde, como es tradición en los mejores tebeos de la cabecera, lo mitológico tiene un cariz tan importante como lo superheroico. El relato goza de un tono entre épico y trágico agrandado por el personaje de Hipólita y su deseo de libertad, para ella y sus hermanas, coartado por las maquinaciones de los dioses del Olimpo y los hombres. Todo bien ilustrado, sin alharacas, por Gene Ha y Nicola Scott, y un arrollador Phil Jiménez que probablemente hace aquí las mejores páginas de su carrera. Aprovecha todas las posibilidades de una página más grande para que luzcan mejor que nunca sus habituales composiciones. En ese sentido, de la terna de dibujantes es quien realmente sabe aprovechar el formato elegido.
June 13, 2024
Geneza Amazonek i Diany, czyli Wonder Woman. Narysowana poetycko i pięknie. Z fabułą, która opowiada niebanalną historię kobiet. Ponarzekałbym na format - drażni mnie w tym nowym DC Black Label najbardziej. Ciężko go dopasować do półek. Ale to co wewnątrz wynagradza wszystko i szkoda czasu na grymasy.
August 11, 2025
this was one of the most BEAUTIFUL superhero comics I have ever laid my eyes upon. absolutely stunning. no wonder it won awards! wow!
January 13, 2025
Great story and absolutely outstanding art. This took a while to read just because the art was so amazing, I lingered on every page. Very cinematic and epic, and by far the most interesting version of the Amazons. Many already consider this an all-time classic, and it’s easy to see why.
In the back matter, they mention that this may be part one of three. Here’s hoping!
In the back matter, they mention that this may be part one of three. Here’s hoping!
December 26, 2023
Filled with rich symbolism in both the art and story. The switch in artists on every issue was a bit jarring as it happened but I feel that each artist fit their issue perfectly. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in superheros or mythology.
August 22, 2024
The main reason to read this is the art, especially in the first issue. (It is by Phil Jimenez and he’s been recognized for this by awards.) it is rich, elaborate, ornate, and incredibly detailed. I read this first issue (and the second) on an iPad via Hoopla and that method of filling the screen with every panel along with the vibrant, stunning colors was amazing. I highly recommend trying that because the regular book (which I had to get from the library to see this in print and finish reading the story) is still impressive but many of the panels are small and get a bit lost in the overall grandeur of the many double-page spreads (several of which will make you pause to breathe and marvel).
The artwork falls off a bit in the other two issues, especially in the depictions of regular human life (well, they are Amazons). But the overall effect and eye-opening scale of the gods continues throughout.
The story is the creation of the Amazons so the theme of male misogyny and the degradation of females is appropriate, even necessary, but it gets repetitive and a note played again and again with little variation.
There are huge battle scenes shown but I’m not clear how the Amazon numbers got so large and their fighting skills so developed to withstand the forces sent by Zeus. And I had trouble keeping track of and distinguishing between most of the minor human players, not to mention the 6 main goddesses and the 10 semi-goddesses(?) that make up their respective tribes.
By the middle I was anxious to see how they’d all survive Zeus’s wrath, what scheme Hera seemed to have up her sleeve, and what all this had to do with Diana, the Wonder Woman.
The artwork falls off a bit in the other two issues, especially in the depictions of regular human life (well, they are Amazons). But the overall effect and eye-opening scale of the gods continues throughout.
The story is the creation of the Amazons so the theme of male misogyny and the degradation of females is appropriate, even necessary, but it gets repetitive and a note played again and again with little variation.
There are huge battle scenes shown but I’m not clear how the Amazon numbers got so large and their fighting skills so developed to withstand the forces sent by Zeus. And I had trouble keeping track of and distinguishing between most of the minor human players, not to mention the 6 main goddesses and the 10 semi-goddesses(?) that make up their respective tribes.
By the middle I was anxious to see how they’d all survive Zeus’s wrath, what scheme Hera seemed to have up her sleeve, and what all this had to do with Diana, the Wonder Woman.
September 16, 2023
Wonder Woman has always had a complicated history in comics, not least in having an origin story that is always changing whilst retaining her presence in Greek mythology, being a warrior princess of the Amazons. Given that the Amazons themselves are a whole subject, portrayed in a number of ancient epic poems and legends, as well as researched and dramatized that have resulted in many depictions, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick puts her own spin on how the Amazons were conceived, leading up to the origin of Wonder Woman herself.
The story begins with Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon, who grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts, due to the many subjugations and abuses of not-men by men on Earth. What starts out as a secret plan to a new society was born, one never seen on Earth and capable of wondrous and terrible things, the despairing Hippolyta crosses paths with the Amazons, setting up a series of events that would lead to an outright war across heaven and Earth.
As a self-proclaimed feminist and has used her position in comics to promote feminism and feminist ideas, as seen in her Captain Marvel run and Bitch Planet, it would seem obvious for DeConnick to tackle the world of Wonder Woman in some capacity. Published under the DC Black Label, DeConnick and her three artists really get to experiment, both narratively and artistically, in exploring how the Amazons were conceived through the lens of the Greek Gods, who are just as unruly as the people who worship them.
Whilst you get to know the Greek goddesses, particularly Hera and Artemis, there is also the human element, starting with Hippolyta who goes through a breakdown after committing a heinous sin. But upon meeting the Amazons, she finds salvation and finds her way of leading her own tribe among the other tribes. Considering the atrocities towards women and the Amazons fighting back and thus influencing future generations, DeConnick doesn’t present the narrative in black-and-white terms as that influence can have disastrous consequences such as a boy who was slain for the sins of his father.
Upon reading the bonus material on the back of the book, DeConnick writes about her scripts should be considered more as a road map than a set of blueprints, putting more emphasis on the collaboration between writer and artist, as opposed to the typical writer-orientated approach to comics. With a larger print format, the issues allow the three artists to go unhinged, starting with Phil Jimenez, who presents the most visually spectacular, labyrinthine issue since J.H. Williams III’s work on The Sandman: Overture. While Jimenez sets the bar high, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott pick up the pace with their own flourishes, presenting a version of Greek mythology that is grand, violent, beautiful and diverse.
Whilst I’m interested to see what Tom King has planned for his upcoming Wonder Woman series, Kelly Sue DeConnick and her three artists present a visual masterpiece that puts a unique take on the Amazons, who are layered as they are flawed in the traditional Greek sense.
The story begins with Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon, who grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts, due to the many subjugations and abuses of not-men by men on Earth. What starts out as a secret plan to a new society was born, one never seen on Earth and capable of wondrous and terrible things, the despairing Hippolyta crosses paths with the Amazons, setting up a series of events that would lead to an outright war across heaven and Earth.
As a self-proclaimed feminist and has used her position in comics to promote feminism and feminist ideas, as seen in her Captain Marvel run and Bitch Planet, it would seem obvious for DeConnick to tackle the world of Wonder Woman in some capacity. Published under the DC Black Label, DeConnick and her three artists really get to experiment, both narratively and artistically, in exploring how the Amazons were conceived through the lens of the Greek Gods, who are just as unruly as the people who worship them.
Whilst you get to know the Greek goddesses, particularly Hera and Artemis, there is also the human element, starting with Hippolyta who goes through a breakdown after committing a heinous sin. But upon meeting the Amazons, she finds salvation and finds her way of leading her own tribe among the other tribes. Considering the atrocities towards women and the Amazons fighting back and thus influencing future generations, DeConnick doesn’t present the narrative in black-and-white terms as that influence can have disastrous consequences such as a boy who was slain for the sins of his father.
Upon reading the bonus material on the back of the book, DeConnick writes about her scripts should be considered more as a road map than a set of blueprints, putting more emphasis on the collaboration between writer and artist, as opposed to the typical writer-orientated approach to comics. With a larger print format, the issues allow the three artists to go unhinged, starting with Phil Jimenez, who presents the most visually spectacular, labyrinthine issue since J.H. Williams III’s work on The Sandman: Overture. While Jimenez sets the bar high, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott pick up the pace with their own flourishes, presenting a version of Greek mythology that is grand, violent, beautiful and diverse.
Whilst I’m interested to see what Tom King has planned for his upcoming Wonder Woman series, Kelly Sue DeConnick and her three artists present a visual masterpiece that puts a unique take on the Amazons, who are layered as they are flawed in the traditional Greek sense.
April 17, 2023
gosh the art in this was STUNNING (if a bit cluttered in the first issue in places) and just adored the re-telling here. it was definitely giving itself a lot of gravitas, but was both sincere enough and confident in its own storytelling to pull the whole thing off
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December 22, 2023To be clear, that cover is the only appearance the adult Wonder Woman makes in this, and even as a baby she's a late arrival in its pages. This is Kelly Sue deConnick's retelling of what came before Diana, following the Amazons from their creation through to their exile to Themyscira. Which here very much is an exile, explicitly compared to Prometheus' rock, rather than a quest to build themselves a paradise far from the world of man. This is part of a wider tendency to strip out the agency and fun from earlier versions of the story, reducing the Amazons to combatants in a direct and brutal war of the sexes that plays out on Olympus and Earth alike. The goddesses create the Amazons because they're outraged at how men treat women; the Amazons then become guerilla liberators of enslaved women, though what they do with enslaved men is unclear, as the existence of such people doesn't really fit Historia's stark set-up. Love is referenced a lot, but seen very little; you can certainly argue that Wonder Woman stories risk coming across as icky to modern sensibilities when they emphasise that angle, all the way from Marston's originals to Morrison and Paquette's Earth One, but to shy away from it to this extent leaves a bruising war story, and that can't be right either. It hasn't even the stately serenity of the Perez run; the only way in which these Amazons come across as an alternative to man's world is in the gender of the hand wielding the sword. To some extent it's saved by the art; Nicola Scott looks less numinous here than on Black Magick, and Gene Ha has an annoying tendency to show classical architecture as though it had been built in the bare, ruined state we see millennia later, but they both have some gorgeous scenes too, and the heavy metal Symbolism of Phil Jimenez' opening issue is even better (I suspect doubly so in an outsize physical edition, as against darting around a tablet screen like I was, without even the benefit of an app designed for comics anymore). Not every choice comes off - Artemis often ends up skirting too close to Delirium, and Menalippe just looks like goth Stryfe - but for the most part it really gets across the sense of the gods as entities which may look something like humans, but really aren't. It's just a shame that ability to conceptualise at scale has left so little trace on most of the rest of Historia.
January 3, 2025
Beautiful art and a story that brings the Wonder Woman empowerment to a whole new, raw level.
December 18, 2023
Un pudding woke, décevant à la mesure de l'effet d'attente qu'il suscite. C'est surchargé quand ça se voudrait baroque, misandre sous prétexte de féminisme, cuistre lorsqu'il cherche l'épique. Des planches somptueuses émergent évidemment, qui résisteront peut-être à la relecture, mais dans un tel embrouillamini visuel, une telle absence de ligne artistique que cela sape toute identité au récit, aux personnages.
July 26, 2023
Epic and beautiful. Fuck the patriarchy.
March 31, 2024
this is such a beautiful, gorgeous book on every level. i’m usually more playful in my reviews, but in all seriousness i think anyone interested in critical feminist thought should read this book. also, anyone interested in absolutely hands down the most incredible art in any comic ever should check this out.
i’ve owned this book for what feels like much too long to have only just read it, but given that i’ve accidentally stumbled into the hole of greek retellings, i think now was an awesome time to read this. i think the allure of the ancient and the mythological is how speculative it is and that it allows us to really think without boundaries. so much of life is just fake walls we’ve constructed to keep fake houses stable and fake fucking refrigerators to keep cool our accepted school and realm of thought we may consume. God knows i’ve been catching strays for my big, wide-open thinking lately but idk it’s Easter and in my little wacky catholic-but-also-so-much-else mind it baffles to me to think of how Jesus was this amazing guy who was like hey everyone is equal and women are cool and gays are cool and dogs are cool and now so many people are like actually let’s hate everyone and say it’s because we love Jesus. like it doesn’t make sense. i’m also probably starting to not make sense in my review here. so to wrap it up, in my perhaps misguided quest to figure out who exactly i am before my birthday, i’m so happy to feel connected to divine femininity and have that as part of the adrien pie. i love Jesus, and i love women! take that, family i am going to see later today. happy resurrection day and may we all feel the love we deserve. ✌️!
i’ve owned this book for what feels like much too long to have only just read it, but given that i’ve accidentally stumbled into the hole of greek retellings, i think now was an awesome time to read this. i think the allure of the ancient and the mythological is how speculative it is and that it allows us to really think without boundaries. so much of life is just fake walls we’ve constructed to keep fake houses stable and fake fucking refrigerators to keep cool our accepted school and realm of thought we may consume. God knows i’ve been catching strays for my big, wide-open thinking lately but idk it’s Easter and in my little wacky catholic-but-also-so-much-else mind it baffles to me to think of how Jesus was this amazing guy who was like hey everyone is equal and women are cool and gays are cool and dogs are cool and now so many people are like actually let’s hate everyone and say it’s because we love Jesus. like it doesn’t make sense. i’m also probably starting to not make sense in my review here. so to wrap it up, in my perhaps misguided quest to figure out who exactly i am before my birthday, i’m so happy to feel connected to divine femininity and have that as part of the adrien pie. i love Jesus, and i love women! take that, family i am going to see later today. happy resurrection day and may we all feel the love we deserve. ✌️!
January 16, 2024
This is not a story of wonder woman, but of how the "Amazons" were founded by female Greek gods, and how the male Greek gods responded. A very feminist tale, which I would have expected if I'd remembered this is the same author as "Bitch Planet". There are three issues, each with art by a different artist. An odd choice, but it works, even though any individual god can look very different in each section. All the art is lovely and very detailed and that is what brings this up to a 4 rather than 3 for me.
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