Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack!
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Graphic SF Reader
Not quite as cheesy as it sounds.
An over-inflated Circe has revivified Wonder Woman’s mother, who now leads an army of Amazons to attack America. We find out the Amazons have other allies working with them, who won’t hesitate to destroy large areas of real estate and kill lots of people.
Mother vs daughter, surrogate daughters, surrogate granddaughters and others such as Wonder Girl and Supergirl have to try and work out what to do, and some of the Amazon generals begin to question if their leader has gone nuts.
There is also someone pulling the strings behind all of this, in what is nostly a Justice League story that apparently leads into a presumably mega-storyline called Final Crisis.
The art here is reasonably attractive.
Still, pretty forgettable, and if you like the JLA less this is only ordinary.
3.5 out of 5
1 Stars Unfortunate Hack Story
The book Amazons Attack takes place shortly after Wonder Woman is illegally taken prisoner by the U.S. government and tortured for reasons of “national security”. The reason for this is that the U.S. government previously asked Wonder Woman for blueprints on how to make a healing device the Amazons use called “The Purple Ray”. Wonder Woman said no to the U.S. because in the wrong hands the healing device can be altered to become a powerful weapon of death. The U.S. response? Kidnap Wonder Woman and torture her until she spills the beans.
That plot said, a great percentage of comic book readers have very little, if any, good words for this collected story. There are many reasons for this, but the central rant against this book has been the writer’s failure to stick to already established history in regards to the Wonder Woman comic book. Here’s a few examples of what I mean:
1) The Amazon’s main enemy is a witch called Circe. She’s killed and tortured many Amazons over the years and the Amazons have a serious hate for her. Despite this, writer Will Pfeifer had not only the Amazons following her into battle, but also had the Amazon’s various gods allow Circe to enter the then magically protected Paradise Island.
2) The Amazons are a technologically advanced society in the modern day DC Comics world. Despite this, writer Will Pfeifer has the Amazons regressed to barbarians, bringing bows and arrows and swords as thier only weapons against the U.S. armies.
3) The main superheroes that appear in the story fall prey to long spells of stupidity. ie. Superman can hear explosions several states away but not weapons 10 feet away from him.
4) The Amazons abolished the Monarchy on Paradise Island several years ago, at the behest of Wonder Woman’s mother Queen Hippolyta. This was because the Amazon nation is formed by two seperate tribes of Amazons. The Themyscirian Amazons (Wonder Woman’s tribe) and the Bana-Mighdallian Amazons, who are a middle eastern tribe of Amazons. Because the Banas refuse to see Hippolyta as thier queen and because they worship a different set of gods, Hippolyta removed herself from the throne in order for both tribes to become a united Amazon race. Again, writer Will Pfeifer threw this history aside and had Hippolyta act as queen again with no explaination given.
I can go on and on with many more points of example of how both writer Will Pfeifer and DC Editor Matt Idelson failed to do thier “homework” on this story, but I’d rather not. Honestly it just gives me a headache thinking back to my many moments of disappointment reading this book I now regret purchasing. Personally I’d like to leave this story behind and imagine DC Comics has much more respect for a comic book title that’s successfully lasted over 65 years in print. I’d like to believe that, but with work like Amazons Attack being green-lit to production, I’m a little more than crest fallen.
4 Stars A Solid compelling story that had opportunity
A peaceful day like any other and then… BOOM becomes a day unlike any.
This is a bloody tale, the Amazons had been attacked, pillaged and wounded in the event known as Infinite Crisis. Now we go to, Amazons Attack it is a series to read for entry level DC readers. It shows the destroyer aspect of the world’s greatest warriors, the Amazons.
Leaving their technology on Paradise Island, the Amazon nation shows up in panoramic style with Hydras, Cyclops, and other mystic power ups.
The story was one about parents and children. What would a parent do to get a child back? What would a daughter do to save her mother? Can you still look a person in the eye after they kill and kill even if they are your mother?
People were shocked at some of the scenes in this … or will be quick to point out its flaws.
Every work has flaws, but the artwork is solid and as a hardcover, you don’t need to read anything other than the six issues included. The paper is high quality as is the coloring.
Pfeiffer tries to convey a sense of urgency and we see Amazons, warriors par excellance attacking in terrorist manner. It is not intended to be fun, or happy… it is intended to shock, gasp and make one think.
There are opportunities to be had but the ending and its surprise is most certainly a cliff hanger. This is a story that had to be told, the Amazons were violated by America quite severely at theend of Infinite Crisis… but what is a just war? What is revenge? Can it be justified all the time? At what point does it become better to think about how not to fight?
Those are all core themes to any Wonder Woman story and are explored here.
Where they will go, let’s hope for the best.
I did sincerely wish Mr. Pfeiffer would have explored some of the amazon death traps or mystic items a bit better… or the mind set of the amazons but ultimately this is a tale about stepping up to the plate to do whats right and everyone trying and failing… everyone.
Ufortunately in a few areas so too did Pfeiffer, but he tried.
This is a story I think that would have worked better if scribed by the more sophisticated Jodi Picoult, rather than have her fill in some issues this would have sky rocketed under her pen.
And hence an example of DC not stepping up.
1 Stars Horrid
This story shows a true contempt for Wonder Woman and the character of the Amazons. Since Marston created the character in 1941, the Amazons have been enlightened and desiring to maintain peace and harmony. This series displays nothing but contempt for that premise. I am amazed that DC Comics accepted this story and further published it. It is nothing more than misogynistic tripe.
4 Stars Amazons Get Brutal !!
Wow…What a story!I had a hard time putting this book down,it was definately a page turner, I can’t believe that this has received some of the bad reviews that it has, which almost influenced me not to get this, but after I read Love and Murder, which I really enjoyed,I went with my better judgement and got this…My only small complaint was that I wish they would have shown more scenes of the Superheroes battling the Amazons!! Other than that Very Entertaining!!
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