Wonder Woman-Help!

[Anubis]

I got through the first two issues and was like, I can't do this anymore. I'd rather sit on a corn cob pipe.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I also dropped Amazons Attack at some point. I don't remember which issue. It was very ungood.

 

[yenaled]

I kept reading

I convinced myself it would be something like White Martians or Durlans.

Then no.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ah, having faith that stories will make sense in the end. I remember that feeling. Vaguely.

 

[Anubis]

I think Chuck Austin killed that feeling in me.

 

[Manic]

I remember that Amazons Attack went over so badly with fans, DC stopped advertising it. For big story events, they'll usually put random ads in every other comic they publish, and put that special featurette page in the very back of every comic.

The latter half of Amazons Attack hit the shelves with complete silence. They were ready to sweep that crap under the rug before it was even done.

 

[Kurosawa]

Let me put it this way: in the first six pages of Amazons Attack, an Amazon murders an innocent tourist visiting Washington DC, and then decapitates his son, for no reason whatsoever.

And then it gets worse.

Keep in mind that that this was the original code of the post-Crisis Amazons as written by George Perez:
Almost all WW writers have tried to respect this interpretation; even if they didn't really get it all the time, at least they tried, and were aware of it.

But with Amazons Attack, it was obvious that no one involved in the planning of the miniseries had ever read even a single issue of anything have to do with the Amazons, who -- in the DC Universe -- are supposed to be incredibly enlightened, nurturing, and peaceloving. Yes, they are warriors, but they're firmly good warriors on the side of the good guys and have been that for the last twenty years. These women are Wonder Woman's family, the ones who raised her, they're her friends and her sisters, who taught her how to be Wonder Woman. In this story, though? They were bloodthirsty childkillers who couldn't be reasoned with and just one day decided to take over the world for some reason that's never explained. They bomb Kansas and California, the unleash killer bees on people, at one point they try to kill Wonder Woman herself -- again, for no reason that's ever explained. Forget having any continuity whatsoever with any former stories; the series didn't even follow its own continuity from issue to issue.

It is truly one of those stories where the more you know and like about the characters involved, the worse off it becomes.

It's not just that no one involved seems to have any clue about the Amazons, it's almost as if the creators intentionally set out to be as damaging and capricious towards the characters as humanly possible. Even today the Wonder Woman mythos still hasn't recovered from the damage that AA did to it. It is, without a doubt, without any exaggeration or hyperbole, the single worst Wonder Woman story ever written. I almost suggest that you read it for yourself, because everyone -- and particularly WW fans -- should experience how hilariously awful it is, at least once.

This series is one that needs to be explained away or disregarded asap. Wtf were they thinking? Tools.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It pretty much has been disregarded. Gail Simone's doing okay on Wonder Woman now.