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Wonder Woman: Miniseries
Wonder Woman: Evolution
Can Wonder Woman save humanity...without losing her own? The Warrior of Truth defends the human race in this sci-fi epic!
Whisked away from Earth by a distant cosmic entity, Wonder Woman is forced to navigate a series of perilous challenges that push her to the brink both mentally and physically. At stake is the fate of all humanity, with the alien entities casting Diana as Earth's proxy for a trial judging humankind's worthiness to exist in the universe.
Can Diana stand trial to save humanity without losing her own? Does the capacity for good outweigh the great evils done to one another and the entire planet? Diana must believe it does...or else all the people she has sworn to protect will face certain extinction.
Harley Quinn's Stephanie Phillips teams with acclaimed artist Mike Hawthorne (Daredevil, Deadpool) for his first major DC project, an epic Wonder Woman tale unlike any other!
Collects Wonder Woman Evolution #1-8.
Whisked away from Earth by a distant cosmic entity, Wonder Woman is forced to navigate a series of perilous challenges that push her to the brink both mentally and physically. At stake is the fate of all humanity, with the alien entities casting Diana as Earth's proxy for a trial judging humankind's worthiness to exist in the universe.
Can Diana stand trial to save humanity without losing her own? Does the capacity for good outweigh the great evils done to one another and the entire planet? Diana must believe it does...or else all the people she has sworn to protect will face certain extinction.
Harley Quinn's Stephanie Phillips teams with acclaimed artist Mike Hawthorne (Daredevil, Deadpool) for his first major DC project, an epic Wonder Woman tale unlike any other!
Collects Wonder Woman Evolution #1-8.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published October 11, 2022
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August 14, 2022
This was quite fun omg!
Good: It shows some moments where you see Diana make judgement calls you know only she will make like saving the alien, fighting for a larger cause, sacrifice for her friends and all and that was really well done. Her convos with Superman were so good and I love the way the writer explores that dynamic.
Bad: The story feels way too decompressed like 8 issues for this was too much, you could have done it in half that but still its a quick read and the art could have been better. There were some places the art feels off. Also the villains motive was not properly defined and that leaves a lot to be desired.
Overall still a solid read and makes for a good evening one and it nails who WW is as a character and seems like there will be a sequel to this, so that should be a fun read as well! So yeah a good one time read for sure.
Good: It shows some moments where you see Diana make judgement calls you know only she will make like saving the alien, fighting for a larger cause, sacrifice for her friends and all and that was really well done. Her convos with Superman were so good and I love the way the writer explores that dynamic.
Bad: The story feels way too decompressed like 8 issues for this was too much, you could have done it in half that but still its a quick read and the art could have been better. There were some places the art feels off. Also the villains motive was not properly defined and that leaves a lot to be desired.
Overall still a solid read and makes for a good evening one and it nails who WW is as a character and seems like there will be a sequel to this, so that should be a fun read as well! So yeah a good one time read for sure.
March 28, 2024
One that takes a while to attempt to grow on you, the art never gets better, but the characterisation substantially improves. Attempting a story about humanity and judgement for their sins, it ends up being an art calamity and a plot disaster that is about as flat as Hawthorne's visualisation of Diana's side profile.
July 25, 2024
Fui sem esperar nada para este Mulher-Maravilha: Evolução e gostei bem mais do que eu (não) esperava. A verdade é que quando vi os previews dessa edição com a arte de Mike Hawthorne eu achei bastante esquisita a forma como ele desenhava a Mulher-Maravilha. Acho que quis dar ares de estátuas gregas com o nariz reto e com uma tiara sobre os olhos, o que achei que não funcionou e me afastou da leitura dessa revista em quadrinhos. Mas dei o braço a torcer e foi uma leitura agradável apesar disso. Ela tem um foco na relação de Diana com Vanessa Kapatelis, a Cisne de Prata (que aqui é chamada Cisne Prateada). O mote é uma misteriosa proposta de entidades cósmicas que dizem à Mulher-Maravilha que ela será provada como parte de um julgamento em que o destino do planeta Terra está em jogo. Mas nem tudo é o que parece e Diana Prince terá de lutar contra seus mais fiéis aliados para que se prove digna do que está sendo preparado para ela. Um quadrinho que não supervaloriza o leitor e nem o subvaloriza, é divertido e isso basta.
May 22, 2023
Funcionou pra mim, as cenas de ação são o que eu procurava, o plot no começo é minimamente interessante pra fazer começar a leitura valer a pena e eu gosto como trabalharam a personalidade da Diana aqui além de que acho bem coerente com a minha visão dela.
Dito isto: A Arte é bem..., O vilão eu consigo pensar em 14 personagens que poderiam está ali no lugar dele e seriam até mais interessantes (influindo da Marvel) e o final parece o tipo de coisa que ou será esquecido ou vai ser só uma desculpa pra alguma história que vai negar esse elemento no final.
Uma boa leitura se você procura "mais uma história" e não A História.
Dito isto: A Arte é bem..., O vilão eu consigo pensar em 14 personagens que poderiam está ali no lugar dele e seriam até mais interessantes (influindo da Marvel) e o final parece o tipo de coisa que ou será esquecido ou vai ser só uma desculpa pra alguma história que vai negar esse elemento no final.
Uma boa leitura se você procura "mais uma história" e não A História.
April 7, 2023
Very underwhelming and not at all impressive.
November 3, 2022
Ultimately, this felt kind of pointless, because most of this long book doesn't actually happen. And it ends on a cliffhanger that feels like something that will either be ignored or will require another overly long story to resolve. The art didn't work for me, either. Something about the way Diana was drawn made her so harshly angular that she sometimes looked far older than she was meant to. This was only exacerbated by the chunk of the story that has her hair in a bun, for some reason. Everyone in this book looks either harsh or lumpy, but I feel like Diana got the worst of it.
January 6, 2023
All the issues I have with this volume are almost identical to the ones I had with Diana's story in Future State: Wonder Woman. The ending was anticlimactic and there were a lot of dull moments. There were some bright flashes of potential here and there but they were always redirected towards something less interesting in the end. I think this series would've benefitted from a longer run OR less meandering- the third issue was the worst of the bunch. I did not enjoy that this was essentially a mental exercise in the form of dream sequences. I would've much preferred for these scenarios to be real to Diana ala a time travel story. (I really wanted to see Diana fight to save the Xarr fugitive and their planet and return to Earth with the same intentions-missed opportunity for an epic space battle.) Rather than going in circles to debate the utility of Darwinism (a very stupid theory) and an evil scientist's obsession with making Diana the perfect specimen, instead the story should've had Diana through acts of service (with supporting characters like the Xarr) express hope as a way to allay existential fears/threats of mass extinction and succeed. Not end in a flat cliffhanger. She can easily still show how unhelpful she and other gods can be when merely used as cults of personality - desiring dominance more than the principled integrity it takes to create effective systemic change for the better of humanity. Unfortunately, this volume practically twisted itself into the dullest version of the sum of its ideas.
1.5/5 stars
1.5/5 stars
October 9, 2023
That was pretty terrible.
I mean on so many levels!
It was bad.
I'm going to be giving spoilers, so be warned.
For starters, this had nothing in the art that was terrible, but nothing good and the style was painfully inconsistent with the faces in particular. The art team tried, but it really didn't work for me and the art in a comic being poor is a big negative given the visual nature of it and hugely so in action/superhero type comics.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
As for the story: it was boring.
We have Wonder Woman having a needless crisis of conscience in a way and manner that feels forced in just as an excuse to give her added conflict with an uninteresting antagonist, Silver Swan, who even here feels like nothing but an after-thought.
Then we get YET ANOTHER god-like force (some kind of pantheon in this case) who have AGAIN decided to judge humanities worth and whether they deserve to exist and ol' Wondey is the one who will be tested and judged for all of us.
NOW, firstly let's just get past that this is an extremely tried and tested and very heavily used trope/story-line in scifi and fantasy for years and years and in superhero stuff as well - it is. Secondly, it is a bit of an insult to this seasoned, mature hero that is Wonder Woman who is so easily taken in by this random pantheon no ones ever heard of and seems to not be shocked that she who is extraordinary in dozens of different ways, should be the one being tested to prove the worth of billions of humans who are nothing like her on so many levels? Feels like a dumb choice for any pantheon judging a species - take average samples and test them. It's dumb.
THEN we go the extra-clever mile (well done writer!) to have this all be... DUN DUN DUN! A ruse!
Wonder Woman was in a matrix-like something and there was nano-tech involved and some copying of her perfectness to create super-new whatevers from a painfully cliched super-genius criminal the likes of which I've seen WAY too often the last couple of decades (please writers, can't we do something new? Please?) and she beats the bad guy and the newly powered up Silver Swan who she convinces to let go of her hate and then for reasons: Wondey absorbs the nanites into her own bloodstream to save her and SURPRISE!, the bad-genuis escapes and Wonder Woman is left with some stupid mystery nanites that are not purely tech (whatever) that even Batman can't extract and so she's stuck with these things in her for some mystery something down the line.
I don't know, maybe some people will enjoy it but I found it trite, highly predictable, constantly making me want to fast forward through it and skim more than read and in the end I finished it more for finishings' sake than because I cared. A poor outing for one of the most iconic comic characters in history.
I mean on so many levels!
It was bad.
I'm going to be giving spoilers, so be warned.
For starters, this had nothing in the art that was terrible, but nothing good and the style was painfully inconsistent with the faces in particular. The art team tried, but it really didn't work for me and the art in a comic being poor is a big negative given the visual nature of it and hugely so in action/superhero type comics.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
As for the story: it was boring.
We have Wonder Woman having a needless crisis of conscience in a way and manner that feels forced in just as an excuse to give her added conflict with an uninteresting antagonist, Silver Swan, who even here feels like nothing but an after-thought.
Then we get YET ANOTHER god-like force (some kind of pantheon in this case) who have AGAIN decided to judge humanities worth and whether they deserve to exist and ol' Wondey is the one who will be tested and judged for all of us.
NOW, firstly let's just get past that this is an extremely tried and tested and very heavily used trope/story-line in scifi and fantasy for years and years and in superhero stuff as well - it is. Secondly, it is a bit of an insult to this seasoned, mature hero that is Wonder Woman who is so easily taken in by this random pantheon no ones ever heard of and seems to not be shocked that she who is extraordinary in dozens of different ways, should be the one being tested to prove the worth of billions of humans who are nothing like her on so many levels? Feels like a dumb choice for any pantheon judging a species - take average samples and test them. It's dumb.
THEN we go the extra-clever mile (well done writer!) to have this all be... DUN DUN DUN! A ruse!
Wonder Woman was in a matrix-like something and there was nano-tech involved and some copying of her perfectness to create super-new whatevers from a painfully cliched super-genius criminal the likes of which I've seen WAY too often the last couple of decades (please writers, can't we do something new? Please?) and she beats the bad guy and the newly powered up Silver Swan who she convinces to let go of her hate and then for reasons: Wondey absorbs the nanites into her own bloodstream to save her and SURPRISE!, the bad-genuis escapes and Wonder Woman is left with some stupid mystery nanites that are not purely tech (whatever) that even Batman can't extract and so she's stuck with these things in her for some mystery something down the line.
I don't know, maybe some people will enjoy it but I found it trite, highly predictable, constantly making me want to fast forward through it and skim more than read and in the end I finished it more for finishings' sake than because I cared. A poor outing for one of the most iconic comic characters in history.
January 12, 2023
The basis of this story is that Wonder Woman is abducted by god-like beings and put on trial to prove that humanity isn't irredeemably violent - largely by having her fight things. In fairness, it does make more sense than that in the end, but Diana repeatedly keeps shouting that it's all pointless and you can't help but agree with her. After a lot of meandering plot and fighting different things for no obvious reason, the story does eventually go somewhere in the last couple of issues (of the eight collected here) and ends with a significant change for the character that I strongly suspect will either be ignored or rapidly retconned.
There's the odd good bit here and there and an attempt to explore WW's compassion rather than just her fighting skills but it doesn't outweigh the mediocrity. It's not truly bad, but it's not especially good, either... it's just sort of there. The artwork is a bit strange too, giving Diana an oddly flat face and a square jaw despite everyone else looking fairly normal. That aside, you're left with the impression that this was trying to do something different but ended up missing the mark.
There's the odd good bit here and there and an attempt to explore WW's compassion rather than just her fighting skills but it doesn't outweigh the mediocrity. It's not truly bad, but it's not especially good, either... it's just sort of there. The artwork is a bit strange too, giving Diana an oddly flat face and a square jaw despite everyone else looking fairly normal. That aside, you're left with the impression that this was trying to do something different but ended up missing the mark.
February 25, 2024
Wow this was awful. Wonder Woman is abducted by scientists and essentially goes on a drug trip, hallucinating fake reality after fake reality, before getting infected with nanites and the story just...ends.
The hallucinations take up the majority of the book and they are just not interesting. The philosophical ramblings are all easily dismissed, there's no introspection or revelation about Diana as a character (other than her apparent "otherness" which is well worn territory at this point and has never brought anything interesting to Diana imo), and the parts of the story that did peak my interest, such as an upgraded Silver Swan and nanite Wonder Woman are introduced so close to the end of the book that the writer can't give a proper resolution to either. Theres a few interesting ideas here, but this book really needed a better editor to help refine it and trim the repetitive plot elements. As is its just plain bad. Save your money for better stories.
The hallucinations take up the majority of the book and they are just not interesting. The philosophical ramblings are all easily dismissed, there's no introspection or revelation about Diana as a character (other than her apparent "otherness" which is well worn territory at this point and has never brought anything interesting to Diana imo), and the parts of the story that did peak my interest, such as an upgraded Silver Swan and nanite Wonder Woman are introduced so close to the end of the book that the writer can't give a proper resolution to either. Theres a few interesting ideas here, but this book really needed a better editor to help refine it and trim the repetitive plot elements. As is its just plain bad. Save your money for better stories.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 10, 2023
I actually really liked the premise and some of the ideas the story tries to wrestle with. How does a superhero, even one as hopeful as Wonder Woman, deal with mankind's seemingly innate destructiveness, war, global warming, environmental disaster? How do you help when these problems are so much bigger than what you can do?
But the execution was altogether something else, even without the bait and switch plot twist. Wonder Woman is written more like War Woman, no empathy. And whose stupid idea was it to make Vanessa Kapatelis into a crazy, evil version of Silver Swan? Why ruin the great supporting cast created by George Perez?
Read if you just want more Wonder Woman, but definitely not her best story.
But the execution was altogether something else, even without the bait and switch plot twist. Wonder Woman is written more like War Woman, no empathy. And whose stupid idea was it to make Vanessa Kapatelis into a crazy, evil version of Silver Swan? Why ruin the great supporting cast created by George Perez?
Read if you just want more Wonder Woman, but definitely not her best story.
September 26, 2025
This is so awful I made an account just to review it. Unlike this evil writer and all the idiots who work at DC I value you time and I wanna save it from being wasted Like what she took from me. This writer is extremely bad. How a comic like this gets funded, approved, reviewed, produced is mind boggling.
The story is total nonsense and changes every issue. She wants to show you how "smart" she is by changing the conflict every issue. It goes from WW fighting a childhood friend, to a nonsense trail of WW by aliens and at the end. The fly on top of the poop, Its all a dream. Yup. An evil scientist has her in his lab and she dreamt it. So none of it matters at all.
Anyone who worked on this book should be fired and banned from the writing industry.
The story is total nonsense and changes every issue. She wants to show you how "smart" she is by changing the conflict every issue. It goes from WW fighting a childhood friend, to a nonsense trail of WW by aliens and at the end. The fly on top of the poop, Its all a dream. Yup. An evil scientist has her in his lab and she dreamt it. So none of it matters at all.
Anyone who worked on this book should be fired and banned from the writing industry.
July 7, 2025
It just didn't work for me. It starts off strong with a cool premise, and I found myself thinking "oh wow, did Stephanie Phillips write the WW equivalent of Superman Up in the Sky by Tom King??" ...no, not at all. She definitely took a risk, but the weird twist ruined it all. And then it just...ends? Like that? I also typically like Mike Hawthorne art but felt he phoned this one in on the major characters. Oh well, it was a quick read. I would encourage everyone reading this to check out Phillips' Boom series Grim though!
December 14, 2022
What a mishmash of ideas. None of them ever really rise up to feel like a whole story, instead the action just kind of meanders along. The conclusion seems like it’s significant, but when you realize it’s just a self-contained limited series it’s like, what was even the point of all that.
The art work is passable except for when it’s atrocious. The artist struggles with making faces look normal and in some cases WW’s boobs are comically large.
The art work is passable except for when it’s atrocious. The artist struggles with making faces look normal and in some cases WW’s boobs are comically large.
August 3, 2023
I'd rate it lower...but it doesn't deserve my time writing a summary.
THIS IS BAD.
* The art is angular and disorienting. Characters look dissimilar in multiple panels
* There is no real ending. (Like others state, this will probably be largely ignored by others)
* Wants to be a story about morality and hope but it's unfocused and bland in delivery
THIS IS BAD.
* The art is angular and disorienting. Characters look dissimilar in multiple panels
* There is no real ending. (Like others state, this will probably be largely ignored by others)
* Wants to be a story about morality and hope but it's unfocused and bland in delivery
July 16, 2022
5/10 I read the eight issues as they were released. It’s a standalone WW story. There are no surprises, not very original. Mostly the same stuff that we all know and gets repeated, and repeated, and repeated…
April 26, 2024
I will admit that the illustration style took a bit of getting used to on my part. This is a Wonder Woman with a forehead-to-nose profile that makes her look like the figurehead of a sailing ship or such statues as Athena with the cross-banded aegis of Pergamon, Venus de Milo or Hermes of Praxiteles. That and the pouty lips she sports make her look like a Greek supermodel.
But she proves to be the Amazonian princess I admire. She’s about compassion, love and respect towards others, no matter how different they seem. Here, she’s mainly pitted against Vanessa Kapatelis, a.k.a. Silver Swan. The origin story of Silver Swan is varied but the main gist is that she was a woman who was crippled in an accident. Diana visited her often—until she couldn’t. She had a world to protect, after all. But Vanessa didn’t see it that way. She saw Diana’s increasing absences as abandonment, went mad with rage and became the Silver Swan. She became a mass murderer and one of Wonder Woman’s deadlier nemeses.
So she’s back and once again menacing innocents. But the writers pull a clever bait-and-switch tactic. It slowly becomes clear that Silver Swan is not the real threat. Wonder Woman is being manipulated by a cunning supervillain. He’s one of those bad guys you love to hate: ruthless, manipulative, cunning, whip-smart, arrogant, a genius in his field and determined to better mankind by any means necessary.
The scenarios in which Wonder Woman find herself provide fascinating insights into her character, as the best stories do. There is even time for an interaction with Superman, which I always enjoy. Of all the DC characters in the Justice League, he’s always been the one who stands closest to her in terms of temperament and their relative positions to humans. He’s practically a god and so is she. He seems human but he’s not. She’s human in form but was formed from clay and her physique means she can withstand extremes of temperature, peril and endurance far beyond that of mere mortals.
The ending is the only thing that frustrates me. It’s…open ended, leaving room for the supervillain to make a reappearance. But is there a sequel to this? Is it under this title or must I look for it elsewhere? It’s annoying and I would have preferred that the authors not do it. But how else can they make people buy comics?
This anthology manages to surprise, enlighten, dazzle and bring tears to the eyes. Diana always tries to save people, even when others think they can’t be saved. This series illustrates just how hard she tries when the fate of humanity is on the line.
But she proves to be the Amazonian princess I admire. She’s about compassion, love and respect towards others, no matter how different they seem. Here, she’s mainly pitted against Vanessa Kapatelis, a.k.a. Silver Swan. The origin story of Silver Swan is varied but the main gist is that she was a woman who was crippled in an accident. Diana visited her often—until she couldn’t. She had a world to protect, after all. But Vanessa didn’t see it that way. She saw Diana’s increasing absences as abandonment, went mad with rage and became the Silver Swan. She became a mass murderer and one of Wonder Woman’s deadlier nemeses.
So she’s back and once again menacing innocents. But the writers pull a clever bait-and-switch tactic. It slowly becomes clear that Silver Swan is not the real threat. Wonder Woman is being manipulated by a cunning supervillain. He’s one of those bad guys you love to hate: ruthless, manipulative, cunning, whip-smart, arrogant, a genius in his field and determined to better mankind by any means necessary.
The scenarios in which Wonder Woman find herself provide fascinating insights into her character, as the best stories do. There is even time for an interaction with Superman, which I always enjoy. Of all the DC characters in the Justice League, he’s always been the one who stands closest to her in terms of temperament and their relative positions to humans. He’s practically a god and so is she. He seems human but he’s not. She’s human in form but was formed from clay and her physique means she can withstand extremes of temperature, peril and endurance far beyond that of mere mortals.
The ending is the only thing that frustrates me. It’s…open ended, leaving room for the supervillain to make a reappearance. But is there a sequel to this? Is it under this title or must I look for it elsewhere? It’s annoying and I would have preferred that the authors not do it. But how else can they make people buy comics?
This anthology manages to surprise, enlighten, dazzle and bring tears to the eyes. Diana always tries to save people, even when others think they can’t be saved. This series illustrates just how hard she tries when the fate of humanity is on the line.
December 14, 2025
Un cómic bastante bueno, con una historia tradicional sobre Wonder Woman, su lucha y su humanidad. Me ha gustado mucho esta imagen de Diana, fuerte, musculosa, alta, griega. Aunque el argumento central me pareció algo flojo, lo perdono por este diseño de Diana.
December 10, 2022
I didn't like anything about Wonder Woman Evolution. The story was meandering and ended up pointless and I do not like the artwork.
December 16, 2022
Really interesting wonder woman story. I did not love the art on this. The faces were.....REALLY hit or miss.
March 13, 2023
A deep story that looks at Diana’s nature.
September 26, 2023
Pretty boring story that has Wonder Woman tested for no reason and some of it's real and some of it is not.
March 14, 2025
Wonder Woman is so my favorite
I love Wonder Woman the I enjoyed the art. The story line was really good but kinda all over the place like most comic books lol.
I love Wonder Woman the I enjoyed the art. The story line was really good but kinda all over the place like most comic books lol.
November 14, 2022
Wonder Woman gets wrapped up in a battle where she doesn't know what's real. It's supposed to be some judgement about humanity but like the title says, it evolves into something else. I typically like Mike Hawthorne's art but paired with Adriano Di Benedetto his Wonder Woman looked fugly at times. Something about how he did her hair maybe I think.
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