Nathan's Movie Reviews

 Wonder Woman The Hiketeia  by Greg Rucka and J.G. Jones     I continue to look for great Wonder Woman comics based in the main contiuity instead of a spereate universe like Absolute Wonder Woman. Today I finally read Wonder Woman The Hiketeia, which had been on my list for a while. Overall I think its fine. Its an interesting plot of Wonder Woman having to protect a woman who begs for her protection while Batman is seeking to bring her to justice for murder. The ideas and themes of justice vs honor are interesting and for the most part the characters are well written, but for me I didn't get enough to know a character who is the central part in the story. So if you aren't as invested in the character then the ending is going to fall a little flat. But don't think that I hated this, because Greg Rucka is a very skilled writer and he writes Wonder Woman very well and Batman fairly well. The art by J.G. Jones is great as well, but overall I don't know who I would recco...

 Wonder Woman: The True Amazon  by Jill Thompson I had always heard about this graphic novel retelling the Themyscira young adult origins of Wonder Woman that was supposed to be very friendly to new readers. I was in a Wonder Woman mood after reading Absolute Wonder Woman, so I took a chance. The positives are the art. Jill Thompson is a very good painter and all of the illustrations are fantastic and reall give this comic more of a storybook quality. The redesigns of Wonder Woman and the rest of the Amazons are great and really unique. Unfortunately, thats where the positives end because this story by Jill Thompson leaves something to be desired. The twist is that this Diana grew up to be spoiled and then becoming Wonder Woman is how she learns to be better by saving and helping humanity. I don't really have a problem with that story arc, but the problem is with how its presented.Diana is so unlikeable and her ego results in some very bad things happening to her fellow Amazon...

Absolute Wonder Woman  # 1-14  by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, and Matias Bergara       Well, this was something. I have always liked the idea of Wonder Woman and I know what some of her best stories and comic runs are but if  I was asked to name how many Wonder Woman stories I have actually read  it would only be about five. I don't know why Wonder Woman is a little unapproachable for me. Maybe its the fact that a lot of writers don't know what to do with her or that everytime she's had an event comic it has been some of the worst of all time (Amazons Attack or War of the Gods). Hell, even DC doesn't know what do with her as she is the part of DC's trinity (along with Batman and Superman) but she gets the least amount of attention. Basically, you only write Wonder Woman if you're forced to or if you have a damn good pitch. Thankfully for Absolute Wonder Woman Kelly Thompson has one.     Absolute Wonder Woman is on...

 DC's Absolute Line: Is it Worth the Hype?      It seems that in my absence from really seriously reading any new comics at all  that DC has created the Absolute line of titles which has seemed to take things by storm. It has created a sales juggernaut with titles like Absolute Batam and Absolute Wonder Woman bringing in new legions of fans and getting people genuinely excited about the state of current DC comics which hadn't really happened since DC Rebirth almost a decade ago in 2016. So as someone who has a tangential understanding of them and how the characters are different from their main universe counterparts I want to ask the question... are these new absolute takes on classic characters really shaking things up? Or are these just slightly different and edgier takes on the characters? I want to find out. So, I plan on reading all the current issues that are out for each of the titles. So thats 14 issues of Absolute Batman and Wonder Woman, 13 of Absolute...