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Comic Book Review: Wonder Woman #200
by R.J. Carter Published: January 17, 2004
This two-hundredth anniversary issue is packed cover to cover with tales of our favorite Amazon, illustrated by a host of artists. There's something for every fan in this one, so let's take them one at a time.
In "Stoned," we find Cassie taking on some babysitting chores in the Themysciran Embassy, assisted by Ferdinand, the man-bull chef. And no, the title doesn't imply that she puts the tykes to bed and enjoys an illegal toke or two. Rather, it's a reflection on the bedtime story she chooses for the boys: Perseus and Medousa. It's a tale Ferdinand can't help but interject sarcasm into now and then (for personal reasons) and Cassie finds herself cleaning up the naughty bits as she encounters them. By Greg Rucka and Linda Medley.
"Amazon Women On The Moon" is set in the Silver Age. Nunzio DeFillipis and Christina Weir send Steve Trevor on a mission to the moon, where he's ambushed and captured by assailants unknown. Fortunately, Diana Prince overhears the plight with her "magnetic hearing" and quickly changes to Wonder Woman and speeds off to the moon (after first stopping off at Paradise Island to borrow the Invisible Rocket!) It's a cheesy tale right out of the seventies. Pictures by Ty Templeton.
There's a Golden Age tale as well. "The Exile Of Wonder Woman" pits Wonder Woman against a female cosmetics company executive. When Wonder Woman won't endorse Veronica Callow's perfume, the callow Ms. Callow does what any spurned corporate executive would do: she hires a scientist to build a super-powered female robot to impersonate the Amazing Amazon in performing bad deeds and turning the public against her. Complete with appearances by the Holliday girls and the obligatory spanking scene, this story by Robert Rodi and Rick Burchett has all the simplistic plotting and eye-scraping artwork that the Golden Age Wonder Woman comics were known for.
Of course, the story you really want to know about is the conclusion of Rucka and Johnson's "Down To Earth." When we closed out part three, the Silver Swan was attacking the Themysciran Embassy, and the diminutive Doctor Psycho was waiting in the wings. Meanwhile, Ares and Eros were stirring up mischief in Zeus's love life, setting his sites on Artemis (the amazon, not the goddess.)
So we finally get the fight we've been wanting to see, as Silver Swan thrashes Wonder Woman from one side of the city to the other, cutting her and spewing hate. This Swan has been programmed to kill, which doesn't make things easy on Wonder WOman as she struggles not to hurt her former friend. Meanwhile, the crowds of protestors--both for and against Wonder Woman--are stirred to a righteous, riotous frenzy by the powers of Dr. Psycho. And in Olympus, Hera catches Zeus gazing in a pool at Artemis, and "kicks off" events that bring things "crashing down" to bring this story arc's title to it's expected fruition:
Zeus: But you, sister-hag, you are long forgotten. Goddess of... what, exactly? Hera: I am Patron of Themyscira! I am well remembered-- Zeus: Ah, so it is your jealousy at hand, that my gaze falls upon my Amazons... Hera: Your Amazons? Yours? Zeus: Yes, mine, because I live in their hearts! And if that is why my eye falls on Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall, or any of the women of Themyscira, it is only because I wish to hold them close to my heart as well. Hera: Close? Oh, dear husband, dear brother, I think they're close enough already... Perhaps a little distance from your touch is in order!
When it's all over, there's going to be a lot of cleaning up to do, a murder that's going to need solving, an ocean needing trolled, and a good month's worth of fan speculation.
This two-hundredth anniversary issue is packed cover to cover with tales of our favorite Amazon, illustrated by a host of artists. There's something for every fan in this one, so let's take them one at a time.
When it's all over, there's going to be a lot of cleaning up to do, a murder that's going to need solving, an ocean needing trolled, and a good month's worth of fan speculation.
