On a whim at my local comic shop, and to get over the minimum £5 spend, I splurged £25 to get Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons. I'm not sure why but I went so over my budget but it's good to support the little guy against the Amazon shopping behemoth. Also, it looked so darned impressive in its dust jacket that I couldn't resist. I didn't even open the book before buying it. In the evening, I sat down with a cup of tea and dived in.
Frustrated by the indifference of Zeus and the other Gods to women's suffering, the various Greek Goddesses come together at the Well of Souls and use the spirit of murdered women through the ages to make a new race of warrior women--the Amazons.
These revitalised women bring retribution to women slavers, rapists and murderers but the Gods, dominated by the Greek male pantheon, are none too pleased with this change of affairs. And so begins an epic war between the Goddesses and Amazonian against Zeus and his followers.
Historia is a beautifully illustrated and coloured book. The detailed artwork is gorgeous and shows the true skill of Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott. The lush painterly style deserved to be appreciated and the hardback edition I have has excellent paper stock which really makes the art pop.
However, as well as looking good the story is epic too- in the real sense and not the overused hyperbole. It reads like a Homerian epic with wonderful flowing language which fits the sequential art so well as to be almost symbiotic of the sequential art.
If I had to share a graphic novel with someone who had no knowledge of sequential art, alongside Maus, Blankets, Watchmen and Battle Angel Alita I'd pass along this.
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