Wonder Woman Earth One Review

Finished reading Wonder Woman Earth One, this book finally establishes Wonder Woman's existence within DC comics' Earth One continuity as writer Grant Morrison tells the origin of this version of Diana before she begins to have adventures in the world beyond Paradise Island. The book opens up 3000 years in the past as queen Hippolyta of the Amazons leads a uprising against Hercules and his army after being used as slaves which leads to the Amazons building their home on Paradise Island secluded from the rest of the world. In the present the Amazons have gathered for the trial of their queen's daughter Diana who has broken the laws of Paradise Island by venturing into Man's World when pilot Steve Trevor crashed landed onto the beach of Paradise Island to give him the medical attention he desperately needed. Overall this was a great book as it retells the origin of Wonder Woman by the use of the settings of a courtroom which helps to tell the story from different perspectives. The changes that writer Grant Morrison has done for this version of Wonder Woman and her supporting cast is great and helps to bring some social commentary to the book with the change of Steve Trevor's ethnicity to being an African American works well as it allows for the Amazons to be a more relatable and understanding people thanks to the parallels it makes to America's history which is more recent to that of the Amazons'. Additionally Diana's reactions to Man's world also helps to show how different the world is to someone who has come from a literal paradise try's to understand things like death that we know to be facts of life but yet with most of the book coming from Diana's point of view it brings more social commentary with how the people in the hospital are and with one mistaken Diana as an angel. The artwork by Yanick Paquette is amazing as the design of Paradise island and the book itself feels very much like a story out of ripped out of Ancient Greece especially with the inclusion of some Ancient Greek imagery between the panels at the beginning of the book which helps to set the books aesthetic. 8.5/10.