Wonder Woman #7 – Tom King, Writer; Guillem March, Artist; Arif Prianto, Colorist
Ray – 10/10
Ray: Tom King is taking a break from the main story this issue—sort of—as Guillem March steps on on art and the story flashes back to the events before the Wonder Girls issue. This is a Wonder Woman and Superman team-up issue as the two old friends work together on a pressing mission—what to get Batman for his birthday. This is a homage to the iconic story “For the Man Who Has Everything,” but this isn’t about the Black Mercy. This is about the largest shopping mall in the universe, the Andromeda Mall, where you can get anything imaginable from over 100,000 stores, and the aliens running it are very serious about parking rules. Things get off to a chaotic start right at the beginning when an alien seems very invested in buying a specific rock—which turns out to be Kryptonite, in a low-tech and violent assassination attempt that Wonder Woman stops.
From there, the two go on their day of shopping and recreation. They see a movie—which promptly gets hijacked by Mxy and Bat-mite right from the 5th dimension, in a hilarious meta scene. They take a spa day, try and reject countless gifts, and dance around the topic that Wonder Woman is now the most wanted person in the world and rejecting the help of her closest allies. The characterization of both the characters here—and Batman, in a brief segment—is note-perfect, with all three genuinely coming off like friends despite their very different backgrounds. Some segments are hilarious, others are heartbreaking, and it all unfolds in one of the most entertaining, inventive settings I’ve seen in a comic in some time. It’s like a Douglas Adams story, and man, do I want to visit this mall. There’s no Trinity story in this issue, just another perfect issue from what is becoming DC’s best book.
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