KIERAN’s Reviews > Wonder Woman: Earth One, Vol. 2 > Status Update

Again, this whole "it was fate for Paula to kill Hippolyta" feels like such a flimsy, bullshit excuse.

If we wanted to create a PUA villain, a better way would have been, say have Dr. Zeiko as the leader of a cult of misogynist men, whom he gives grand promises of manipulating women to. However, these promises are empty, and Zeiko's real goal is to use these disgruntled men as a base for his evil plans.

While I am impressed by how Dr. Psycho actually manages to be a villain that successfully manipulates Diana, I am less impressed by Hippolyta randomly letting Paula the Nazi - a woman she could easily beat with her eyes closed-kill her.

Also, how did the Amazons MISS Paula being a secret agent of Maxwell Lord for nearly 80 years?

It feels like something that should have come up.

Still, it's very contradictory. On one page, Diana has enough understanding of marriage "not to intrude" and on the other she kisses a married man back without any guilt whatsoever.

Which way is it, Mr. Morrison? You can't have it both ways.

Unless you want Diana to look like a guiltless homewrecker, which can't be ANYONE'S intention. Anyone but a misogynist's, that is.

Which makes me think nobody explained the concept of marriage to Diana, specifically the part about monogamy.

Although Diana explicitly says earlier that she "doesn't want to intrude" on their marriage, meaning she DOES understand the concept to a degree, although on that same page she also says that "marriage is still an idea I'm coming to terms with".

Of course, we the reader KNOW that the kiss and Zeiko's talk of "pheromones" that men are helpless against is him manipulating her. And that Marva probably doesn't even exist.

But from Diana's perspective, Dr. Psycho is a happily married man. There is no reason for her to kiss him again, especially if she does not have explicit permission from Marva.

So now we get to see Dr. Psycho blatantly be manipulative. It's pretty clear they were testing Diana's bracelets to satisfy curiosty. Dr. Psycho's lines after are extremely uncomfortable, although probably purposefully so.

As for the kiss...has nobody explained the concept of monogamous marriage to Diana?

"The gods are ideas always looking to express themselves" philosophy of religion is interesting.

Oh, shit, is Diana going to be wrong about something and face consequences for it?

Also, apparently Dr. Psycho is successfully manipulating her and they're hanging out. Although I'd have prefer we SEE this supposed change in Diana rather than be told about it.

I cannot describe how unimpressive that is in the context of gods and comic books where we eat twelve impossible things for breakfast.

The only way this could even REMOTELY be salvaged is if Ares is somehow an invisible hand steering the creation of the mech-suit, a hidden villain controlling everything from behind the scenes.

Still not mythologically accurate, but at least then we'd have a real antagonist.