Wonder Woman

• Title: Wonder Woman: Black & Gold #6 (of 6)
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• Writers: Marguerite Sauvage, Liam Sharp, Michael W Conrad, Christos Gage, Dr. Sheena Howard
• Artists: Marguerite Sauvage, Liam Sharp, Noah Bailey, Kevin Maguire, Jamal Campbell

The concluding issue of Wonder Woman: Black & Gold offers five more tales of Wonder Woman‘s adventures in black and white, with a splash of gold. The six-issue mini-series ends on more of whimper than a bang. My favorite of the bunch, “Attack of the 50-Foot Wonder Woman,” swaps the powers between Giganta and and out-of-control giant Wonder Woman who her adversary has to find a way to talk down.

“Role Model” showcases Wonder Woman’s generational impact on the women of the world by highlighting her relationship with an old friend who has grown into her role of a Congresswoman years later. In “The Prophet” the adventures of an exiled Amazon Berchta returns to Themyscira as told through the fevered visions of someone dreaming Wonder Woman in another world.

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• Title: Wonder Woman: Black & Gold #5
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• Writers: Josie Campbell, Kurt Busiek, Sanya Anwar, Peter J. Tomasi, Trung Le Nguyen
• Artists: Carlos D’Anda, Benjamin Dewey, Sanya Anwar, Christian Alamy, Trung Le Nguyen

Wonder Woman: Black & Gold #5 offers black and white tales, with a flourish of gold, featuring Wonder Woman. My favorite of the tales, “Feet of Clay,” is told from the point of view of the Amazons’ greatest general, Antiope, who is reluctantly brought out of retirement to train Hippolyta‘s precocious young daughter molded from clay and given life by the gods (keeping with Wonder Woman’s original origin). The story highlights the pair’s unique relationship, and the similarities the two warrior women share.

In “Hellzapoppin'” Diana visits Hephaestus only to discover the forge of the gods in disarray leading to battle through Hell in a search for her missing friend.  Ships of Themyscira are attacked by a sea ghost in “Beyond the Horizon” and a confrontation with a spirit in torment deep in the ocean’s depths.

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