Who wants to toss Supergirl around like a football? Wonder Woman does!
Creative Staff:
Story: Gilbert Hernandez
Art: Gilbert Hernandez
What They Say:
Things go haywire when the science-villain who captured Diana brainwashes her! Mary Marvel and Supergirl are counting on Wonder Woman. . . can she defeat mind-control, androids AND the villain in time? “No Chains Can Hold Her” part 2 of 2.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Sensation Comics had quite the bit of fun the last time around with Gilbert Hernandez giving us a very different version of Wonder Woman that ended up running into a fight with Supergirl. Hernandez’s style is definitely not what most would expect with a Wonder Woman book, but he makes it a lot of fun here in this self contained storyline that has no greater impact beyond the most important one of just entertaining the reader. While it’s a throwback to a different day with a couple of modern sensibilities mixed in, it’s definitely not a Wonder Woman a lot of people would be familiar with – or even want I think. But it works perfectly in this two part sense and gives us a lot of fun with the characters.
Because of the fight that was going on before with how Kanjar Ro had taken control of Wonder Woman, things got so big that Mary Marvel popped right into our universe and out of hers, where she was off fighting Dr. Sivana with the rest of the Marvel family. Here, she sees Wonder Woman and Supergirl as just more advanced evil robots of Sivana’s and it doesn’t take long for the whole thing to turn into quite the fight. In fact, the vast majority of the book is made up of fight sequences, albeit ones that shift the participants a bit along the way. Mary’s pushback against Wonder Woman and Supergirl is particularly fun though since she’s an unknown quantity for them and it turns into an utterly hilarious game in a sense as Diana and Mary begin throwing Supergirl back and forth at each other for awhile, largely stemming from Mary calling Diana a grandma early on in the fight. It’s a hilarious sequence that’s beautifully illustrated to raise the humor level even further.
Everything does eventually circle back to Kanjar Ro and his accomplice and there’s a lot of old school goofy fun that goes on here with what they’re involved in and how the trio have to join forces to take them down. The mix of that and trying to save Supergirl after she gets hits hard by a Kryptonite ray allows things to move quickly as it shifts to two arcs for a bit, giving Diana time to deal with the immediate threat while Mary helps ave Supergirl. Like a lot of stories in this series, it does end rather quickly, and we get potential new friends perfect for an epic girls night out, but we also get one last dash of action as well for just Diana that lets her think about her position in the world as the strongest earth-born woman there. It’s simple but very effective overall.
In Summary:
Gilbert Hernandez’s style is most definitely an acquired taste for many and I’d be hard pressed to see him working on many titles in general because of it. For something like this, it’s utterly ideal and perfect, making me wish we had a few more books of this nature to let creative teams just enjoy comics being comics. The trio of Mary Marvel, Supergirl and Wonder Woman definitely is a lot of fun as they go up against Kanjar Ro with a side node to the rest of the Marvel family and Dr. Sivana. It’s bright, colorful, silly and completely 1950’s in so many ways that it’s a delight to revisit, though I wonder if many people came away offended by its old fashioned views at times.
Grade: B+
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: DC Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: November 20th, 2014
MSRP: $0.99
