“Ice Blue, Part 2”
Creative Staff:
Story: Corinna Bechko
Art: Dani
Colors: Mike Spicer
Letterer: Ferran Delgado
What They Say:
As Wonder Woman chases Blue Snowman back to their home turf, it becomes clear someone far more powerful is really behind this bizarre plot to control the weather…but who?
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
In the back half of a two-part story, Corinna Bechko delivers us a pretty good story here, one that doesn’t quite end even if you know how it will end. It’s an interesting choice since it’s one that has Wonder woman speaking to the reader and you don’t get it so direct as that most of the time. Similar to the first half, Dani is back on the art duties and it’s just a whole lot to love with their art style, especially in working parts of the character such as hair and lips, but costume design overall really does come across beautifully. I’ve seen a few artists that work similar to this and each and every time I see it I end up really loving it because it feels distinctive and works so well with the material at hand.
Diana’s dealing with Blue Snowman at the start here has her escaping and leaving behind some of her minions. What we find here is that these are the true believers in what Blue Snowman is doing, though Diana just wants to find out more of who she’s actually working for as someone is clearly funding her. That doesn’t take long to be discovered and it’s off to the arctic in pursuit of Blue Snowman once again. It’s a little quick and easy but works well enough because Blue isn’t someone who is really covering her tracks well, and is figuring that anything can be taken care of by her backer, which is revealed to be Veronica Cale.
Cale is pretty much just going with the approach that a number of villains are these days that are playing to the environmental side. They’re clearly the villains because they’re doing illegal things and are causing trouble, danger, and death, but they claim to be on the right side in pursuit of environmental justice. But it’s a wrongheaded approach when there are better ways to do it. Cale’s more of a background villain in all of this so the book focuses more on the fight between Diana and Blue Snowman at the arctic base and it’s a lot of fun watching that play out. Dani’s artwork is what really sells it, especially with Mike Spicer’s color design, since there’s so much white but there’s a lot of blues that are worked into it to really drive home the feeling of the cold. It’s an engaging fight with some good moments to it that delivers for me.
In Summary:
This two-part storyline is pretty good with what it does here as we get a quick-hit kind of story that doesn’t run deep. It gives us some good time with Diana in action mode but also just trying to put things into the right place when it comes to what Blue Snowman and her benefactor are up to. I do like that it kind of cuts things short, even if a third issue would have been fun to see her deal with that, as it doesn’t really overstay its welcome. Instead, it’s a tight little story with some gorgeous artwork and fight sequences that are a real pleasure to watch.
Grade: B+
Age Rating: 12+
Released By: DC Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: February 24th, 2021
MSRP: $0.99
