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Wonder Woman vol. 1 issue 9 — 5:15
• [When] Evolution Goes Haywire — 5:45
• The Freed Captive — 15:34
• Part 3 — 24:13
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 44: Caged — 34:07
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 41: Balance — 46:25
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 10: Stolen Faces — 58:31
News — 1:17:51
Wonder Woman 1984 non-spoiler review — 1:24:06
• Spoiler section — 1:28:10
• Endgame spoilers — 1:32:36
• Spoilers over — 1:41:00

Wonder Woman 1984 Virtual World Premiere

Gal and Patty to receive the paycheck they would have gotten if WW84 had made a billion dollars at the box office

Patty Jenkins to direct the next Star Wars movie, Rogue Squadron

Gal and Kristen’s amateur music video recorded during the filming of WW84

Pictures an Israeli photographer took of Gal as Wonder Woman years before she was cast in the role

A rumor is circulating that Lynda Carter might make an appearance in The Flash movie as Wonder Woman

The DC Database entry about Post-Crisis Etta being from Texas

Credits
Intro music: Wonder Woman Theme (The Best Themysciran Symphony Dialogue Dance Mix) by TazDamianDevil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivtn1qRo20
Outro music: Wonder by The Doubleclicks: www.thedoubleclicks.com

Wonder Woman vol. 1 issue 9
Summer (June), 1944
Rating: ★★★☆☆
[When] Evolution Goes Haywire
We start out with Steve and his young niece Dotsie visiting the zoo, because apparently he didn’t learn his lesson the last time. Sure enough, she crawls through the bars into the gorilla cage, where a large female snatches her up and cradles her in its arms.The zoo-keepers dissuade Steve from shooting the ape, but while I try to figure out how many Harambe jokes I can get away with, the gorilla, which evidently lost one of its infants recently, causing its maternal instincts to latched onto Dotsie instead, refuses to drop the child, instead smashing its way through the bars and sending the keepers flying. Just then Diana, who had planned to meet Steve at the zoo, arrives to find the fleeing gorilla, and so follows it into a forest, pausing to change into her costume when she sees the ape has climbed up to a high branch. She loses sight, but runs into Steve, now on horseback, and says she’ll follow the simian’s trail using the tree swinging skills she learned while hunting on Paradise Island. Climbing high, she spots the ape headed toward Holliday College, where biologist Professor Zool is giving a lecture on evolution, and explaining his new invention—the electronic evolutionizer, which can transform monkey into humans. At that exact moment, the gorilla, which we now learn is named Giganta, appears behind the professor, startling him, but luckily Etta’s there, and she rallies the Holliday Girls to charge. Giganta tosses knocks them down like bowling pins by tossing Zool their direction, but that gives the just-appeared Wonder Woman the opportunity to jump on the ape’s back. She grabs its arms, forcing it to drop Dotsie, who’s caught by Etta, and after a few moments wrestling with gorilla, Wonder Woman manages to pit it while the Holliday Girls tie it in the lasso.

Once Steve and the zoo handlers get there, the Major checks on his niece, then tells the keepers that Giganta need to be killed in order to prevent this from happening again, but they answer that as the largest captive gorilla, she’s very valuable. Professor Zool suggests an alternative—testing his electronic evoltionizer on the beast. Steve doubts it’ll work, but since there’s a chance it’ll kill the monster anyway he has no problem with it. Still tied in the lasso, Giganta is placed under a glass dome, while Zool explains that his machine electrifies the air around the gorilla, stimulating its evolution. Sure enough, when he throws the switch, red fire dances around Giganta, which transforms before their eyes into a human woman. Once removed from the machine and dressed in a Holliday College outfit, she suddenly grabs Wonder Woman by the throat, crying in ape language—which comes across as grunts and gibberish but luckily we get a translation—that she hates the superhero for stopping her. The amazon throws Giganta across the room, but accidentally crashes her into the electronic evolutionizer. Furious, the wild woman flees, but then the air is filled with colored fire, as Zool exclaims that his machine has been set into reverse. Everyone starts devolving into cave men, except Wonder Woman due to her quote “Amazon resistance,” so she picks up the device and throws it through a window. Their transformation stops, but outside the device has free rein to ignite the atmosphere, transforming the animals, plants, and people back to their primeval states—crocodiles at the nearby zoo become t-rexes, cats become saber-toothed tigers, and elephants become mastodons, while the landscape morphs to a humid, prehistoric jungle. One of the lab’s windows is shattered by the head of a t-rex, sending everyone inside fleeing to the hills.

There they find a cave, though Wonder Woman, now speaking in caveman gibberish, can tell by the boulder blocking the entrance that it already has an occupant, shoving the rock aside to find Giganta. Thanks to the cavern’s protection, she didn’t devolve, remaining at the same caveman level as the rest of them. But she refuses to team up because the group is lead by a woman—I guess gorillas have gender bias?—and heads off into the woods, only to find herself captured by a male-lead tribe of tree-dwelling Cro-Magnons. They refuse to listen when she calls herself an ally, instead believing she’s from a rival tribe of cave-dwellers. But she gets a stay of execution when she promises to lead a surprise attack against their foes, who we see are temporarily deprived of their leader when the Amazon goes to find the electronic evolutionizer in order to set things right. This allows the tree-men to secretly climb to the cliffs above the cave and catch the remaining Holliday Girls, Steve, Dotsie, and Professor Zool in lassos made of vines, lifting them up and away one at a time.

As they’re taken back to the tree-village, Wonder Woman, unable to find the device, heads back to try again at the beginning, but runs into Giganta, who distracts the superhero long enough for her to be caught in vines as well. Laughing, the Amazon simply breaks her way free and climbs up the creepers to find herself in the tree-men’s realm. She surrenders when she sees them threatening to kill her friends, and they’re all taken to the village. The men decide to sacrifice Steve to the jungle gods, tying him to the base of a tree while Wonder Woman is bound high above, forced to watch. At the chieftain’s call, a t-rex appears, making its way straight for Steve, but Wonder Woman quickly breaks the vines tying her and leaps down, and with no time to spare, pulls Steve’s tree out of the ground in order to get it away from the snapping maw. Once the Major’s been untied, she smacks the t-rex to the ground with the root-end of her makeshift club, then ties its mouth shut using her lasso to form a muzzle. This leads to one of the greatest images in all of comics—Wonder Woman riding an ever-loving t-rex, compelling it to smash open the high wooden cages holding her friends. The Holliday Girls swiftly chase off the tree-men, then everybody climbs on the t-rex, down its back and all the way to its tail. Etta tells her friend she needs something but it’s sure what, to which the Amazon replies that the girl wants candy, though it hasn’t been invented yet—yeah, just… they’re going to blur the line between the world being devolved and actually going back in time a looot more as we progress through this issue, so just get used to it now. Regardless, the superhero promises she’ll find the professor’s device and return them to the modern world.

The Freed Captive
Wonder Woman convinces the professor to help her find his machine, though his confusion over only being able to speak in caveman instead of English makes him absent-minded, enough that he nearly walks off a cliff, then when they’re searching he’s so focused on looking in the bushes he somehow doesn’t notice a mammoth charging at him. Sure it’s behind him, but there’s no way you don’t notice a six-ton pachyderm running at breakneck speed. Luckily, Wonder Woman jumps in just in the nick of time, grabbing the beast by its tusks, holding him fast. Zool runs up a tree, and then the amazon, still struggling with the mammoth, hears a voice from above saying to throw a rope and she’ll be pulled to safety. She manages to tie the lasso around herself and toss the free end into the branches, but when she’s lifted it’s Giganta holding the other end.

Recognizing the rope as the same one that commanded to t-rex, the villain ties Wonder Woman’s hands and compels her to reveal that they’re looking for the professor’s machine. Saying she knows where it is, she leads the bound Amazon—and carries Zool, whom she knocked out—to a cave, which she says is where the evolutionizer is… only the superhero will have to fight a saber-tooth tiger to get it. Sure enough, once inside the cat leaps at Wonder Woman who, thinking quickly, ties the loose end of the lasso, dropped by Giganta, into a lasso, then leaps backwards over the charging tiger, catching the end around its neck and landing square on its back. Once the beast is compelled into calmness, Zool, awake again, frees Wonder Woman’s hands. The amazon rides out of the cave—not as impressive as on a t-rex, but still—and starts racing after Giganta, finally catching her in the lasso, having tied the end not around the tiger’s neck into another loop. Leading her back, Wonder Woman comments that the evolutionizer didn’t complete its work on Giganta, leaving her with animalistic instincts. Luckily, the evolutionizer IS in the cave, and they take it back so Zool can fix it, though since his caveman hands are too clumsy, he directs Wonder Woman in making the repairs.

Once it’s back in once piece, they realize there’s no power source, the battery having died, so with Etta remembering the tale of Ben Franklin, they make a kite with a wire leading to the machine, flying it during a thunderstorm. The trick works, and once given one point twenty-one jiggawats—or however much the machine needs—the air is once again filled with red fire. Zool, standing closest to the device, is evolved forward so much he… grows into a young man, which just… yeah just go with it, because trying to make it make sense will just hurt your brain. The environment changes too, with the jungles giving way to flowery meadows, as Wonder Woman proclaims they’ve evolved into the perfection of the golden age. Unfortunately, this Eden-esque world had no bad weather, so the thunderstorm powering the device stops, leaving them stranded again. Checking on the Holliday Girls, it seems they’ve all left the caveman era behind them—except for Giganta, who says that her mind evolved, so she now speaks perfect English like the rest of them.

Steve, whose looks have improved and looks de-aged as well, invites Wonder Woman to meet some friend he just made—a couple called the King Aros and Queen Darla, though their modest home doesn’t seem to match their titles. Inside, they sit Wonder Woman on a throne while Darla kneels, since the queen is supposed to be the most humble person in this golden age, and get Etta, who’s looking shorter and thinner than normal, some candy. The queen gives the Holliday Girls golden-age outfits, but when she asks about the tied-up Giganta, Wonder Woman explains that she’d attack if not bound with the lasso. Darla commands that no one in her realm should be held captive, so the Amazon obeys, though she says hopefully the freed captive won’t cause the downfall of this pure-minded, golden age. To the surprise of no one, as soon as she’s let go, Giganta starts plotting to take over the kingdom, corrupting it to fit her will. She finds a peasant who takes her to his palace, since the lower classes in this golden age society hoard their wealth, using it only for their own enjoyment. Dressed in finery by the peasant’s sister, who learned the value of giving from the queen, Giganta convinces the lower classes at one of their banquets that night that they should be the ones in charge. The sister says that would be unnatural, but the people declare they can decide between right and wrong for themselves, purposely choosing wrong because it will increase their power. Subtlety of a brick, that Marston.

Anyway, the next day Giganta calls at the window for King Aros, but when he leaves his housework to go outside and talk to her, he’s snuck up on and knocked out. Giganta send her underling to attack Steve, distracting the Major so they he can be clubbed from behind as well. When the queen, Wonder Woman, and Holliday Girls return from farming, they find the men and children held captive, so Darla surrenders. The superhero ties her lasso around her ankle, disguising it as jewelry so Giganta doesn’t recognize it. As the rest of the captives are forced to work the fields and the former peasants raid the royal house of valuables—which I wouldn’t think they’d have since they’re supposed to give everything away, but whatever—Darla apologizes to Wonder Woman, realizing her mistake in ordering Giganta freed. The rebels build a pyre to execute Wonder Woman and the queen, hoping to make an example of them to the others, but when the flames are high enough to hide them from view—since Wonder Woman feared their friends would be killed if they were seen breaking free—the superhero snaps the ropes tying them, grabs Darla, and jumps high. Once free of the flames, she throws her lasso before even landing, catching Giganta, who’s compelled to order her men to release the captives. With the uprising quashed, Darla promises to teach her new captives that love is greater than evil, lamenting the end of their golden age now that people know they can choose wickedness—though Wonder Woman proclaims that once people realize being good is more fun, a new, better golden age will begin.

Part 3
Returning to Queen Darla’s country, we see that men have decided they should rule the kingdom. Darla asks what their wives thought, and Domo, the ringleader, says the women were too afraid to fight their husbands, proving their inferiority. Wonder Woman offers to dual him with clubs, even promising to have her legs bound with the lasso when he answers that her magic gives her an unfair advantage. He agrees with those terms, but during the battle he manages to break her weapon. She blocks his next blow with her bracelet, snapping his club as well, then delivers a knockout punch. He says she won, but she’s the only woman that could, with even his wife saying Wonder Woman tricked him. The queen declares that if they’re set on giving the men exclusive power and excluding women, then she’ll abdicate, and anyone who agrees with her can accompany her. Even Giganta, given the choice between being a prisoner of the new regime or going with Darla, agrees to leave with the queen who’s treated her with kindness. Wonder Woman, Steve, and the Holliday Girls—and presumably Zool and Dotsie, though we don’t see them—go with, and they sail a far distance until they find a new home to settle, somewhere beautiful and warm.

Giganta, a model prisoner thanks to the lasso she’s kept tied with, helps set up the electronic evolutionizer, but one day when she’s tied beside the device, with orders not to loose her bonds, rationalizes with her now fully-human brain that if she activates the machine she’ll be set free without disobeying orders. As she examines the mechanism, the lasso happens to brush an electrode, causing a spark. Realizing the golden cord must have an electric charge, she hooks it up to the evolutionizer, which once more fills the air with red flames. Just then Steve enters, and seeing what’s happening, struggles with Giganta, finally pushing her aside and pulling the lasso free. But it’s too late, and the world around them has been fast-forwarded millennia. Getting up from a daze, Steve sees two women in ancient Greek armor, and luckily, the narration explains, the evolutionizer has developed Greek language skills in his group’s minds, so the Major is able to understand as the two Amazons fight over which will claim him as husband. They see him run, but he accidentally trips over Giganta as she wakes. Still unable to loose her own bonds, the clever girl uses the other end of the lasso, still tied to the wall ring that held her captive, to catch the fleeing Steve, compelling HIM to untie her. And by the time the two Amazons reach them, Giganta is tying Trevor fast.

In the meantime, Wonder Woman, Etta, and the Holliday Girls have encountered another two Amazons on horseback. They say they need to take the strangers to their queen, with the superhero outracing the horses to the city. Inside, she meets Hippolyte, but realizes they’re at a time before the queen’s daughter was born, when the Amazons hadn’t yet left man’s world for the safety of Paradise Island. Hippolyte, feeling the young woman before her is strangely familiar, welcomes her to Amazonia, but says the city-state is in trouble. They were on the side of Troy during the recent war, but now that the war’s over Achilles and his army are want retribution. Normally they’d be able to defend themselves thanks to the power of Aphrodite’s girdle, but her women are away on their annual husband hunt, leaving the city defenseless. Wonder Woman promises to hold off the invaders while the rest of the Amazons return, though the queen answers that thanks to only being vulnerable in his heel, no one can defeat Achilles.

A lone rider, the superhero approaches the Greek camp, challenging the leader of the Myrmidons to single combat. They laugh, though only Odysseus is wise enough to suspect something, ordering her to be tied up. Sing, oh muse, of the laughter of Achilles when Wonder Woman was brought to his tent, and sing of his shock when she snapped the too-thin cords that bound her, snatching up the son of Peleus’ own sword and knocking him from his chair with a blow from the blade’s crossguard. Finally realizing her threat is more than empty words, Achilles agrees to the dual, with his army watching as the Amazons look down from the city walls. Reigning blows on his unarmored opponent, the son of Peleus manages to trip the superhero, then aim a blow at her defenseless head, but she’s able to block his blade with her bracelet, then backflip into a combat pose. Wonder Woman’s swordwork manages to disarm the hero, but then his men charge at her, angry that she embarrassed their general.

As she fights them off single-handedly, the rest of the Amazon forces return to the city, their newfound husbands in tow. Among them is Giganta, but when she’s distracted for just a moment, Steve manages to jerk the lasso free from her hand. He then leads the charge against the Greeks, despite his hands still being tied behind his back, taking soldiers down like an offensive tackle, while the rest of the Amazons route their opponents across the Themyscira plain. Once the battle is over, Wonder Woman unties Steve, joking that she shouldn’t since it’s husband-hunting season, and while he says it’d stop him from having to keep proposing, she isn’t ready to settle down. At last all reunited, and knowing the lasso can power the electronic evolutionizer, Wonder Woman and her friends bid Queen Hippolyte farewell before making their way to back to the 1940s.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 44: Caged
July, 1990
Rating: ★★★★☆
We start with Wonder Woman trapped in a high-tech cage that’s suspended from the ceiling and surrounded by monitors. Choi talks to her from one of the screens, showing Etta and Maxine, trapped in a similar cage, on another. Knowing he can’t harm the superhero herself, he explains that if she breaks herself out, the other cage will become electrified, killing her friends. We see Diana’s tiara and lasso are in a glass box next to Choi in the control room, where he thinks to himself that they’re the power he really fears, having faced the lasso before when Wonder Woman interrogated him while hunting down Myndi Mayer’s killer. He can’t let that happen to Armbruster, who, when Maxine demands to know what happened to Valerie, is revealed to be holding the Silver Swan comfortingly. Val apologizes profusely to her boyfriend, to which he replies that he does love her, but her constant doubt is getting exhausting, and if she keeps it up even he will eventually leave her. Saying she’s too weak and trusting, he tells her of course Wonder Woman agrees with the world’s overemphasis on women’s appearance—after all, just look at what she’s wearing. The caged women watch as he says that the Amazon didn’t pay Val any attention before her transformation, and now she’s just jealous of the Swan’s beauty. Maxine cries out furiously, but Etta says the video feed is only one-way, and it’ll be better not to wear their emotions on their sleeves when dealing with professionals like Choi and Armbruster, but to play along until they’re able to turn the tables. Etta asks about the differences between the two scans of Val—last issue they were taken two years apart, here it’s just two months—and notes the second one was labeled revision experiment. This causes Diana to remember when there was a flash of Valerie’s original silhouette during their battle, realizing the Swan’s transformation must have reverted. Asking why she was chosen to be the focus of the Silver Swan’s ire, Wonder Woman learns from Choi that they used her reputation of perfection to trigger Val’s self-doubt, and her strength and skill in battle to test the Swan’s abilities.

The women watch helpless as they see their friend once again wrapped in bandages and enter the tank that gave her her powers, as Armbruster orders his men to throw the switch and turn the power up all the way, no matter the danger to Val’s life. Etta calls to the superhero, saying that if she’s really stronger than Hercules and faster than Mercury, now’s the time to use those powers, since they’re dead either way. Maxine screams no, jumping on her back, as Etta reaches out and grabs the electrified bars of their cage, setting off a charge of lightning all around them. Choi and Diana are shocked, with the Amazon bursting her way out of her cage and smashing through a wall. As she struggles to get off the floor, Choi watches helplessly as the base loses power due to the massive electrical surge caused by the cages going off. He tries to shut down the system as Armbruster, appearing on a monitor, says Wonder Woman will escape if he does, but Choi replies that it looks like the superhero was willing to sacrifice her friends to stop them. As another technician tells Armbruster that they have to reboot, the businessman sends security to find the Amazon. The tech tells him that Professor Buchman’s calculations never accounted for as much energy as the Swan just received, and she could have permanent brain damage, but the boss says to keep going, even if it kills her, which Val manages to overhear. As Choi tries to direct security to find Wonder Woman, she appears in his doorway, grabbing him by the collar and reaching for her lasso and tiara.

We next see the Amazon smash her way into the remaining cell, astonished to find Etta and Maxine alive. Her friend explains that they used the Lieutenant’s waist trimmer as insulation, standing on the rubber girdle to keep themselves safe from the electric charge. The superhero lowers them down to where Choi stands, wrapped in the lasso, and once on the ground Maxine demands to know where her friend is. Back in the lab, a technician tells Armbruster than now the Swan herself is causing a power surge, but when the businessman tries to tell her to calm down and let them take control, there’s an explosion, and the suspended cage above Choi and Maxine drops, as Diana rushes toward them.

In the aftermath of the blast, Armbruster is racing through the debris, as we see Val reaching for a pair of wings in a locker, taunting him, telling him to run. As he rushes past the wrecked cells, Wonder Woman stands, lifting the wreckage off of them. Armbruster grabs a downed security guard’s gun, but his wrist is caught in the lasso, and he turns, astonished to see his foes alive. He’s panicked that Valerie’s coming for them, and sure enough we see the Silver Swan flying through the facility, hunting him down. Finally, Wonder Woman steps into her path, but when the Swan says move or die, Maxine run in between them. Val is bitter when Max says she’s her friend, but then Choi speaks up, saying it’s time she knew the truth. He says he owes it to Wonder Woman for saving his life, then orders Armbruster, tied in the lasso, to finally reveal all.

The businessman confesses that Professor Buchman died in an accident, which he used to his advantage. The professor had genuinely wanted to help Val, discovering that the radioactivity she was exposed to in the womb had also granted her the ability to shape matter with her voice. He’s wanted to train her to use her power to normalize her appearance, but Armbruster only saw her abilities as a way to make money by selling them to the military. Knowing she’d never agree unless she was manipulated, Armbruster pretended to care for her, telling her exactly what she wanted to hear in order to get her to do what he wanted. With Maxine’s egging, he admitted his love was false, every kiss a lie, mere acting while he tried not to show his revulsion at touching her. He constantly fought with the professor over using Val’s powers for profit, until it came to a head when Buchman learned Armbruster had contracts with international buyers. The businessman slammed the elderly doctor against some equipment, but just then a blast had rocked the lab. Valerie cries that she killed the only man who was really on her side, but Wonder Woman and Maxine say she hasn’t taken a life, which Armbruster confirms. He lead her to believe she had, though, since it aided his manipulation, as did holding up Wonder Woman as an impossible idol who needed to be taken down. But then Maxine came back into Val’s life, teaming up with Professor Buchman’s son, and the Swan lost her battle with Wonder Woman. They put her through the treatment again, hoping to increase her power, but then one day she looked in a mirror and saw she was reverting to her old form. He did what he could to comfort her, drowning his disgust in booze later. Choi blamed the setback on the alien gene bomb set off during the Invasion crossover, waaaay back around Wonder Woman issue 26. They put her through the procedure yet again, and despite Choi saying she wasn’t as powerful as before, Armbruster refused to listen.

Maxine is angry that Choi didn’t tell Val the procedure threatened her life, but he says Armbruster was the boss, and since he wasn’t told to, he didn’t say anything. Furious, Valerie bears down on her now ex-boyfriend, but Diana steps in the way, saying since she just found out she’s not a murderer, it’d be best to remain that way. Maxine pleads for Valerie to stand down and they’ll go to Max’s home together, causing Val to break down, crying, and the two old pen-pals embrace.

Back at the Isle of Healing, Diana checks on Soloman Buchman, who seems fully recovered, while the healers check on Etta. Sol is surprised to learn that the elder Buchman wasn’t murdered, but lost his life in an accident, though when he hears of Armbruster’s arrest, he says that someone with that kind of power will be swiftly freed. Diana tells him Valerie wants to talk, but is frightened, then accuses him of the same fear when he says he won’t at least have a conversation with her. Sol objects, though, saying he’s at a loss, since avenging his father was him only motivation in life. And the issue ends with him saying he doesn’t know what to do next, while Diana ponders the same question herself.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 41: Balance
August, 2015
Rating: ★★★★☆
The issue starts with Diana reminiscing on the lessons she’s learned on balancing her life as a queen, superhero, and god of war—though at the moment she’s enjoying the simple pleasure of flying where she can just be herself. She reaches Mount Olympus and heads to Donna’s cell, tucked away in a cliff face behind the palace, saying she feels sorry for the girl who was lied to and manipulated, and hopes she’ll take the opportunity of learning the painful truth to grow as a person. Her former foe sits dejected in a cramped alcove, bars separating her from her visitor, but when Wonder Woman says this is a chance to discover herself, she snaps back that she’s a monster who slaughtered defenseless opponents. Diana says that mistake doesn’t need to dictate her person she is going forward, but that choice is up to her.

Wonder Woman next flies to Olympus’ outdoor swimming pool, which we haven’t seen in a VERY long time, to say hi to Zola and Zeke while she’s here. The mortal confesses she’s a bit lonely since the rest of the Olympians are always busy with their duties, though she doesn’t want Diana to feel pressured to visit more often since, knowing how difficult it is just to be a mother, she can’t fathom how busy the amazon must be with all her responsibilities. As the superhero picks up the baby boy, Zola asks how Donna’s doing, and Diana replies it’s difficult when you don’t have the kind of love Zeke gets from his mother. Hera walks up, wryly commenting that Zeus never had a problem not getting enough love, though hopefully his new incarnation here will have more discretion in the quite how many women he loves. The baby reaches out for Hera, clearly affectionate, and the goddess returns the feeling with a kiss on her reincarnated husband’s infant forehead. With Zeke back in his mother’s arms, Diana tells the queen of Olympus that she’s there to see Hephaestus, and to check on Donna. The Amazon says time will heal the girl’s wounds, just like it did when Diana learned she’d been lied to by her mother, though Hera makes a crack about the girl who was actually formed from clay cracking under pressure.

We next see Diana enter Hephaestus’ forge, narrating that the place is now staffed by the amazons who joined Donna in the slaughter of the sons of Themyscria. The metalsmith god is none too pleased about it, bitterly asking if Wonder Woman is there to make sure her sisters haven’t turned him into a bigot who kills unarmed opponents, but she replies that learning about the lives of those they slew will help reform the women. He tells her they’re still stubborn about their new jobs, but then, as they make their way to an armory, makes a series of metalworking metaphors that essentially amount to “hard work builds character.” He suspects her knowledge of that fact is why she asked him to make this, handing her a bundle, and she goes on about how she was a young girl when she left Paradise Island and became Wonder Woman, but now she’s grown and has more responsibilities, so she wanted a costume that reflects her role as queen, god, and warrior for justice. As I feel disappointed that my podcast got thiiis close to getting a name-drop in an actual wonder woman comic, we get the reveal of her new outfit: the bodice of her initial post-Flashpoint costume, now with gold accents and white stars, overtop a tight black long-sleeve top with the mandatory new 52 mandarin collar, with a kind of segmented, vaguely armored-looking miniskirt over black tights, with her classic red and white boots, now thigh-high, and gold gauntlets, tiara, and pauldrons.

Cut to London at night, where Diana’s learned from Cyborg of a teenage bomber threatening to pull the trigger unless he talks to her. She approaches the police, offering to help, despite the chief telling her he’s probably just trying to get internet cred and if she steps in it’ll only encourage copycats. She’s willing to take the risk, and approaches the bridge where he’s camped out, thinking he’s just another teen desperate for attention. As she gets close, she sees a hooded figure typing on a laptop hooked up to the bomb, but he doesn’t respond when she calls out. Finally, she reaches out, touching him on the shoulder, and he turns, spraying her in face with pepper spray. He kicks her to the ground, saying he’s disappointed it didn’t take much effort to subdue her, but she responds by introducing her boot to his jaw, saying just because she doesn’t want to fight doesn’t mean she can’t. On her feet again, she tries to talk him down as they throw punches, saying she understands he’s got problems in his life, but this won’t help. Holding him over the rail by his collar, which lets us see that the bottom half of his face is covered by a scarf, she says she wants to help him, but then cop cars pull up, distracting her long enough for him to get in a punch, breaking free and diving into the Thames, saying she’s surprisingly skilled at deescalating tensions, considering she’s the god of war. Astonished that he knew that, she stares over the railing, watches the ripples subside.

We catch up with the teen as he makes his way down a dark alley, ranting to himself about how sanctimonious the superhero is, talking about how there’s better ways to overcome your difficulties when she’s literally a princess who’s never had the kind of everyday struggles that come with being born in the gutters of society. As he unlocks a door and descends to a storage room with a strange, glowing circular pool in the center, he says her powers should be in the hands of someone who’d do something with them… and a voice from the pool sarcastically asks if he means anyone in particular. It asks what the teen’s impression of the superhero was, and he answers that she’s just like the voice described—too cowardly to use her abilities to their fullest, and they should be given to someone who merits them. The voice agrees, and he asks it to tell him how he can become god of war in her place. The voice answers all it takes is a weapon that can kill an Olympian, as out of the pool flies a golden bow, some matching arrows… and an honest-to-goodness pegasus.

Wonder Woman season 3 episode 10: Stolen Faces
December 15, 1978
Rating: ★★★☆☆
As a kid plays with a ball on a city street, a woman in a Wonder Woman costume parks her car in front of a hotel and gets out. Excited to see the superhero, the boy runs across the street without looking, and hearing a car speeding their way, the figure in the red, while, and blue cape rushes forward and grabs the kid before he gets hit, pulling him to safety but falling, hitting her head on some trash cans that knock her out.

In her office, Diana gets a call from a doctor. Saying she’ll be there right away, she opens the door to tell Steve she’s headed to the hospital—Wonder Woman was just brought into the ER.

In a hospital room, we see the doctor say they discovered their patient wasn’t actually Wonder Woman when they realized she was wearing a wig and makeup, but decided to contact the IADC anyway since their connection with the superhero is so well known. The still-unconscious woman suffered a concussion, but should be fine. They’d hoped the IADC would be able to identify her, but Diana says she has no idea, but needs to find out. As they go to examine the woman’s personal effects, the agent notices a guy in an ill-fitting lab coat enter their patient’s room, pointing him out. The doctor says he’s the only one assigned to that patient, so they race back into the room to find the man about to inject something into the woman’s arm. He dives out the window, and when the doc goes to get security, Diana spins into her costume. She chases after the would-be assassin, but he manages to hide from her by dangling off the side of the building by his fingertips, then leap down into the soft bed of a laundry truck. Wonder Woman spots the truck as it drives away, realizing her quarry must be hidden under the pile of clothes.

Back inside, the doctor tells Diana the syringe doesn’t have anything they can trace, and as Diana tells an officer to not let anyone into the room, we see a man with a bouquet of roses watching. He heads to a pay phone and, pretending to be the police station, calls the nurse’s desk asking for the officer. As the nurse informs the man of his call, Diana examines the costume their patient was wearing, seeing the label of the manufacturer. Seeing the officer answer and then hang up his call since no one was on the other end, they turn to see the door to their patient’s room closing. Diana, the doctor, and the officer burst inside, the cop aiming his gun at the stranger and yelling for him to drop what he’s holding and stand against the wall. Confirming that the bouquet really is just flowers, Diana questions the man, Todd Daniels, and learns he’s Nancy Clark’s, their patient’s, neighbor. When he heard a news report that someone in a Wonder Woman costume had been admitted to the hospital, he knew it must be her, since she works as a model and aspiring actress. He has feelings for her, but they’re unrequited, so he doesn’t know who hired her to pose as the superhero. Todd wants to stay with her, especially when he learns of the assassination attempt, so Diana tells the officer to let him, saying to Todd that she’s going to figure out what Nancy’s gotten herself into.

We next see the would-be assassin, Fred Roman, in front of a makeup station removing a Mission Impossible-style mask to reveal his true face. An older man with a cane is furious that Nancy is alive, saying her letting herself be seen in the Wonder Woman costume has ruined his plans. Roman replies that they’d just finished the dress rehearsal when she saved that boy, so there wasn’t much he could do to stop her, and says that they could just bring in one of their audition’s runners-up, since it’ll be easy enough to teach a newcomer. The boss says the police, IADC, and the real Wonder Woman are now on the case, and all it’ll take to ruin everything is for Nancy to spill the beans, though Roman says he made sure she knows what happens to blabbermouths, which she’ll definitely remember when she learns of the attempt on her life. The boss agrees to bring in one of the other candidates, saying they only have a day to train her, so there’s no more room for blunders.

The boss exits the makeup suite to visit the ballroom of the hotel they’re in, which has a sign advertising a 1920s-themed charity dinner and fashion show. John Austin, the person organizing the event’s setup greets Edgar Percy, head of the model organization that’s part of the show, and tells him that they’re expecting the thirty richest people in DC to attend. Percy gets permission to rehearse his models on stage that evening, then returns to the makeup suite. There he calls the front desk had has them page Austin, but when the organizer picks up the phone, Percy disguises his voice and threatens to kill an ambassador who will be attending the dinner.

This isn’t the first such call Austin has received, but luckily he knows Steve, so he visits the IADC chief’s office for help. He can’t imagine that anyone who really planned on attacking the ambassador would be dumb enough to call first, but this event is so big he can’t take any risks. Steve agrees to head down and help set up some non-intrusive security, then gets a call from Diana. He tells her that Nancy Clark has a police record, not anything major but more than just a speeding ticket or two, and Diana says she’s tracked down the Wonder Woman costume’s manufacturer, and was finally able to convince him to tell her who purchased it, so she’s headed there now.

Meanwhile, Nancy awakes to find Todd by her bed, baffled to see him. He explains that she’s in the hospital, and when she asks who knows about her in the Wonder Woman costume he tells her they reported it on the news. When he asks about her troubles, she insults him, telling him to go, but he wants to help. He tells her about the assassination attempt, and she realizes it must have been under Percy’s orders. Todd tries to get more info, but she says he knows nothing about her, explaining that the only reason she got the job as a model is because of her rap sheet, shoplifting and forging checks, since her boss knows someone who broke the law once will be willing to do it again. He replies that he doesn’t mind—his own brother has a drug record—and she again demands he take off. He promises to help get her out of this situation, saying he wishes she had half the self-worth he has for her, then heads out.

We next see Diana park on the roof of a parking garage, but when she gets out a blue car purposely barrels straight for her. She’s forced to leap over the rail, her body tumbling in mid-air, but she tucks in her arms and spins, changing into her costume while still in mid-air. Landing safely, she leaps back up several stories as the car reverses, but when she physically stops a blue car, it turns out to be the wrong one, since this driver is a shocked-looking little old lady. Meanwhile, Percy gets off the phone with the real driver, who reports that Diana Prince must be dead, before sitting down at the makeup table, picking up a brush. He’s surrounded by pictures of Steve, and tells the absent IADC chief that what happened to Diana is too bad, but he’ll have to set it aside to get help aid in the theft of DC’s elite, as the camera pans to reveal what Percy’s working on—a mask of Steve Trevor.

Diana arrives at a gym, finding Roman. She introduces herself, alludes to the attempt on her life, then tells him she learned of him from the costume shop that makes Wonder Woman outfits for him. Roman explains that he trains acrobats and has a service renting Wonder Woman actresses out to parties. She brings up Nancy, and he says her accident was unfortunate, with Diana replying that there was an attempt on the girl’s life at the hospital, from an attacker who matches Roman’s build. Just then a woman arrives, and Roman says he can’t help, escorting Diana out. Once she’s gone, the new arrival removes her coat, revealing the Wonder Woman costume she’s wearing, and Roman says they need to train to be ready for the next night’s performance.

That evening, Percy runs his models through the rehearsal, and we see that, in keeping with the ’20s theme, they’re all wielding tommy guns and pistols. At one point Steve arrives, telling Austin the best bet is to limit the room to only one entrance, with a device to scan for weapons as people enter. He also wants his men to keep an eye on the room, and Percy suggests disguising them as wait staff to prevent undo attention. Steve agrees, noting that they’ll have to check the models’ prop weapons just to be sure, and is convinced by Austin that he needs to attend personally to ensure everything goes smoothly.

We see Todd is watching the rehearsal from behind the curtain, before returning to the hospital the next day, where Diana is questioning their patient. Nancy insists she had just been rehearsing her Wonder Woman role for a birthday party before the accident, but Diana says that doesn’t explain the assassination attempt. The model says it must have been a mistake, before shifting the conversation to blame Diana for targeting her because of her past crimes. Apologizing, Diana asks about Nancy’s career, and the girl replies that her hope is that modeling will lead to acting. Her jobs come from classifieds in the newspaper, like the Wonder Woman one that said it would pay a large sum for someone athletic and tall. Diana questions good money coming from a single birthday party appearance, and Nancy backpedals, saying she got that job mixed up with another. The IADC agent says that whoever hired Nancy are tricking her into thinking that her few mistakes in life can only be followed up by more crimes, but the fact that she rescued a child proves them wrong. The model claims to have a headache, clearly an excuse, but Diana agrees to leave her alone.

Sometime later, Todd is hanging around the hotel, and intercepts one of the models to ask if she knows where he can find Percy. She doesn’t, but recognizes him from the rehearsal the previous evening. He claims to work nights at the hotel, then keeps up the lies by asking if she can tell him about his girlfriend, Nancy Clark, who was originally cast as Wonder Woman. Supposedly she kept the details of the job a secret to surprise him, to which the new model replies that she won’t give away the secret, but winkingly says he should pay attention during their speakeasy scene.

Back in the makeup suite, Roman enters to tell his boss that they’ve captured Steve’s agents and locked them up, having stolen their identification. Percy, applying makeup to a man’s unseen face, replies that now they’re just waiting for Steve, then asks if their new Wonder Woman has memorized her part. Roman replies in the affirmative, and Percy says that after all their setbacks, they’re still on course to get away with a few million dollars to South America. The boss contemplates how his reputation, up until this point, has been for his skill in making beautiful people even more gorgeous with his makeup skills, but after today he’ll be famous for one of the most novel robberies ever. The guy being worked on says that the ironic thing is he’ll be stealing from those beautiful people he used to make up, as the camera shifts to reveal that Percy has applied the flawless Trevor mask to the man’s face.

Back at the IADC, Steve enters Diana’s office to show off his tuxedo, telling her about his undercover job at the charity dinner. He asks about Nancy, and she says IRAC is looking into the Wonder Woman job posting the girl answered. After talking to her, she’s convinced the girl’s in over her head, and Steve says to contact him at the hotel if anything comes up.

As he’s about to enter the ballroom, Roman greets Steve, giving a false name, and says Austin wanted him to show the IADC chief a fire exit they need to watch. As the two men walk off, a sinister figure wielding a short truncheon follows.

As evening falls, the Rover brings Diana IRA’s info on that want ad, so she dials the number and finds it’s for Percy’s modeling agency, realizing she needs to head to the charity dinner.

In the ballroom, guests are filtering in as Percy checks with “Steve,” who shows he’s already taken three revolvers from the attendees. With his too-deep voice, the imposter says the models’ guns are ready to go, so Percy heads back to his room. As Diana, all dolled up, looks through the ballroom doors, Austin approaches the imposter, but the phony Trevor says he’d rather stay and the entrance watching guests, plus he’s got a sore throat, so he’d better stay away from others. Diana then waves at Steve, and while he smiles and nods, he clearly doesn’t recognize her. She makes her way backstage, where we see the model from earlier greet Todd, asking if he ever spoke to Percy. He says he’ll wait until after the performance, but then she goes to Roman to tell him that the intruder has returned. Diana enters, meeting Todd who says he’s there to figured out what Nancy’s got herself into, but then Roman confronts them both, clearly hiding a gun in his coat pocket.

As he leads them off, Austin appears onstage to announce the start of the ’20s fashion show. Roman takes his captives to the backstage wings to watch the performance as the curtain raises, revealing the posed models. The woman from earlier steps toward the audience, lifts her gun to the ceiling, and fires off two gunshots. She then yells for the music to be cut and, as the rest of the models pull their weapons and get down off the stage, announces to the crowd that the firearms are real, and the guests are to put their jewelry and riches in the bags the models are bringing around to their tables. But once the valuable are collected, Diana watches as Wonder Woman jumps down onto the stage, appearing to block two shots fired by the first model. “Steve” rushes onstage, helping her throw the models to the ground and shoving them off stage into the arms of the waiters, who round them up. Thanking the “superhero” for her help, he announces that these waiters are his men, and they’ll take possession of the stolen goods and, once logged as evidence, return them to their original owners. Fuming, Diana manages to grab Roman by the arm and shove him across the room, knocking him down. She has Todd go alert the real authorities, then spins into her costume. She jumps onstage, punching the fake Steve so hard his make starts to come off, then blocks a couple of real shots from Roman before flipping him to the floor. She looks knowingly at the fake Wonder Woman, who stands aghast before throwing her tiara to the ground in frustrated defeat.

As the police lead the would-be robbers away, Todd realizes Nancy was supposed to be the Wonder Woman imposter. Diana tries to tell him she might have had a change of heart, but then Steve approaches, leading Percy. The makeup artist was so confident in his plan he didn’t even bother paying attention, and so missed when the real Wonder Woman appeared and ruined everything. Diana and Todd say he didn’t count on someone with a record like Nancy being a good person at heart, and her saving the boy at the beginning was his real undoing. Todd goes to call Nancy while Percy is lead off by an officer, and Steve says to Diana that since they’re all dressed up, he’s going to make reservations for them at a fancy restaurant.

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Intro music: Wonder Woman Theme (The Best Themysciran Symphony Dialogue Dance Mix) by TazDamianDevil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivtn1qRo20
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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 30: The 4th Dimension Kidnappers
June, 1944
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The issue begins at the wedding of Myrna Wilde, a gal from Holliday College, where her bridesmaids, Diana and Etta, try to comfort her over the fact that the groom is thirty minutes late. He calls, but Myrna faints at his words, so with Etta propping up the bride, Diana pick up the receiver to hear Dick Soleful say that the wedding is off because he’s joined the Blue Spirit Masters and is about to ascend. Once Myrna is roused, she explains that her fiancé joined a cult and believes he will ascend to the fourth dimension. Diana says she’s going after the missing groom, though Etta says she won’t be able to do much and should contact Wonder Woman instead. Climbing to the steeple, she changes into her costume and mentally summons her Invisible Plane, heading to Lookout Mountain, which she remembers Steve saying is where the cult’s leader, Anton Unreal, has his headquarters, inside of his Thought Tower. Once there, she leaps down to the tower’s top, then spots Soleful through a window, signing away his fortune to the guru, in preparation to ascend. The superhero smashes the glass, lassos the truant groom, and pulls him out, carrying him up the rope ladder into the Invisible Plane. Back at the church, Etta is sitting on Myrna to keep her from calling off the ceremony, but then Wonder Woman runs in, carrying the bound Soleful. Under the lasso’s power, he confirms his love for Myrna, saying he was hypnotized or otherwise mind washed by the cult leader, but thanks to the Amazon his mind is now clear. The superhero swiftly changes back into her bridesmaid dress, and the wedding goes off without a hitch.

But in the meantime, Unreal is furious that Wonder Woman cost him a million dollars, vowing revenge. He learns from his secret files, which is a thing he evidently has but we get no explanation for, that Wonder Woman is in love with Steve Trevor, and, despite her unlimited strength, can be tied up be her lasso.

Unreal pays the Major a visit, as it seems they once knew each other, saying that he’s come to bid his old friend farewell before he ascends to the fourth dimension, via a machine he invented which allows only masters like himself to return. Saying he must give up his physical possessions before ascending, he gives Steve $250,000, which convinces the Major that the cult leader is serious. He won’t accept the money, but does take Unreal up on his offer to visit his tower and observe the ascension device. But as he’s inspecting the machine, he’s suddenly trapped on the platform via a magnetic pole—literally, a pole that’s been magnetized and I guess holds him by some metal on the back of his belt or something? Anyway, Unreal throws the switch, vibrating Steve away, and cackles that the Amazon is next.

But when the Major awakes in the fourth dimension—which seems at least partially laid over our own—he finds that, due to a person’s self-image becoming manifest in the spirit realm, his transparent body is that of a tall, muscular circus strongman, complete with the skimpy leopard print outfit they wore during that era. The blue spirit masters are astonished at his transformation, but when their leader, a solid-looking cowled figure named Uriah, tries to get him to bow to their authority, he refuses. They try to catch him in ropes and a steel net, but he flings them away as Uriah runs off, then easily breaks his bonds by imagining himself as strong as Wonder Woman. He finds Unreal, but the guru can neither see nor hear him, and his spirit-fist flies harmlessly through the man’s body. He makes his way to Darnell’s office, but neither the Colonel nor his secretary can he hear him, though he observes their conversation about how they’re not worried about his disappearance, since he’s always going off on missions. Realizing it could be a while before anyone misses him, he sends a mental radio signal to Wonder Woman. Diana answers, saying she’ll help, but standing unseen next to her, he replies that she can’t do anything, and should go get the superhero. Aware that her secret identity is at risk, she uses ventriloquism to project her voice from the ajar door, rushing through and back in seconds, having speed-changed into her costume. Saying she’s on her way with the Holiday girls, we next see the women leaping down at Unreal through a skylight, swiftly capturing him.

Under the lasso, he confesses that he captured Steve in order to trap her when she went to rescue him, but that while he can set his machine to bring the Major back, Trevor won’t be able to return until he’s been released from the blue spirit masters’ captivity. Since Steve apparently forgot to tell his angel that he already escaped their clutches, she decides to ascend herself, along with some of the Holiday Girls, leaving Eve and Etta to ensure Unreal keeps up his end of the bargain.

Once vibrated into the fourth dimension, the college girls all find themselves wearing Wonder Woman costumes, though their heights have changed based on the strength of their self-confidence. Uriah appears, implying that Steve’s been captured just like everyone else who ascends, so the women agree to be taken to the blue spirit master’s prison in the hopes of rescuing him. But the electrified cages are enough to keep Wonder Woman at bay, so once Steve, who got lost amidst the realm’s many unlabeled paths, finds the fortress and learns the superhero is trapped within, he furiously lifts a girder with his spirit-strength and starts knocking down walls, sending the jailers running. He finds Wonder Woman, but the electricity running through the bars keeps him from opening her cell.

As he’s shackled by electro-spear-wielding blue spirit masters, the superhero notices how the chains cause his body to become more like his original human form, theorizing their weight causes him to remember when his body was more than just ether. Hoping her suspicions are right, she fights through the pain long enough free herself and open the other cages. The jailers block the escape routes, but are astonished when the superhero has her allies wrap themselves in heavy chains to remember the weight they once had—and since thought becomes reality in this realm, the heft of chains transforms into their physical forms. Their captors’ spirit-spears now too intangible to harm them, Steve socks Uriah in the jaw, connecting with his physical body hidden inside—that of Anton Unreal.

With the guru unconscious, they find themselves back in the real world, standing in front of Eve and Etta, who say it’s a good thing they figured out a way to return on their own, since Unreal was unable to put his dimensional transporter into reverse. Steve hauls his old friend up by the collar, astonished that someone like that could trick people into handing over their fortunes, just to enslave them in another dimension—and Wonder Woman answers that it really is true that human willpower ultimately wins out over physical problems.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 43: The Armageddon Aria
June, 1990
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The lassoed Silver Swan’s scream is deafening, destroying the surrounding area like a constant explosion. On the other end of the golden cord, Wonder Woman clings for dear life, realizing that, even with the lasso reigning in the Valerie’s powers, she’s stronger than the last time. The superhero is crouched, along with Maxine and Solomon, behind the edge of the crater created by the Swan’s first attack, but then climbs to the lip to get a better view. As she does, Val yells out a “no,” and for an instant we get the silhouette of her original, deformed form overlaid on her face. Calling for Armbruster, she promises to do whatever it takes for him not to abandon her. As she climbs higher into the sky, pulling Wonder Woman with her, the technicians tell Choi that their radio contact with the Swan has failed, and will take a 30 minute reboot to reestablish. Choi calls Armbruster to tell him the news, saying it’s possible the Swan’s own cry fried their electronics, but the businessman yells for them to fix it, hanging up and, picking up a photo of Valerie, throws both an insult and the framed picture, smashing it.

The Silver Swan drags Wonder Woman through the sky, ranting aloud and refusing to listen to Diana’s words. Realizing this will soon lead to another sonic scream, the Amazon pulls back on the lasso and swings her opponent into the lake they’re flying over, instantly distracting her from the buildup of power. Maxine yells that her friend don’t know how to swim, so Wonder Woman dives in and fishes the now-unconscious swan out. Laying her down in the crater, she goes to check on Solomon, but Max insists they can’t go to a hospital for his injuries. Explaining that they’ve fled the authorities and sorta-kinda committed breaking and entering at the Kapatelis’ Boston home looking for her, Maxine explains that they’re trying to save Val from the kind of vile experiments Armbruster subjected her to, which is why Choi sent his army of ninjas after them. Diana recognizes that name from his company, Toi-Choi Industries, and says she could sense Val’s pained soul when she was caught in the lasso. Max explains that’s who her friend really is deep down, but she’s been twisted by Armbruster, who used the Amazon as a kind of perfected ideal to make Valerie feel inadequate. She hopes that with the lasso, Wonder Woman will be able to make her friend see the truth, but Diana still needs more information—like why Maxine is teamed up with Solomon when he wants the Swan dead. Opening the bag the ninjas were trying to get, Max explains that they’ve recaptured these records from Armbruster that will explain everything.

But just then, a fleet of armed helicopters approaches, the lead pilot radioing Armbruster that the Silver Swan is down for the count, while the thieves have been joined by Wonder Woman. As Val starts to wake, the businessman orders them all taken out, including the Swan if necessary, in order to retrieve the records. The pilot orders, via loudspeaker, that Wonder Woman give up the Swan and the bag, saying it’s military property, but she demands proper identification. With Diana unable to intervene without risking her new allies’ lives, Max asks her friend to help them, trying to tell her that if she doesn’t, Armbruster will kill everyone. Val can’t understand why the businessman would have helped her so much if he didn’t really care about her, but promises—with the lasso still around her—to keep her friend safe and listen to her side of the story. Sure her boyfriend would never hurt her, she flies up, ordering the pilot, in Armbruster’s name, to stand down. Since he’s still on the line with his boss, the man asks if he should follow those orders, and on recommendation from Choi, the businessman calls over the chopper’s speakerphone for Val to leave. She asks why—at which point, his patience up, he orders his men to open fire. Swifter than Mercury, Wonder Woman is between Valerie and the guns, blocking bullets like mad. She tries to help Val, but the Swan is fed up with the world, her rage bursting forth as a sonic scream that sends the helicopters tumbling, conveniently destroying their guns. Awed at the Silver Swan’s power, she rushes to catch Val when her cry stops and she drops from the sky, exhausted. As the damaged helicopters radio that they’re headed home, Armbruster is furious that the people he wanted dead are still alive, but Choi pushes back, saying he warned the businessman not to force the Swan to do more than she could, though Val’s boyfriend says that she’ll still return because of her devotion to him.

We next see the Amazons’ Island of Healing, where Queen Hippolyte, wearing a summer version of her traditional robes, watches as her people try to treat Solomon, who Diana promised Maxine would be able to recover in their care, though she may not have counted on their unfamiliarity with bullet wounds.

Meanwhile, Diana has returned to Man’s World—specifically, Etta’s house. Her friend has graciously taken in Valerie and Maxine, though she has wanted to have a word with Diana. Privately, she shares that while she admires her friend, the Amazon is SO perfect that she fears her presence has interfered with Etta’s relationship with Steve. Diana replies that she and Steve and only friends, and he loves Etta, but it’s more than that—with all the distractions and intrusions into their life Wonder Woman and her world bring, the couple have no time for themselves. Not wanting to intrude, the superhero offers to get out of her way immediately, but Etta refuses to kick her to the curb, and the two agree to have a full discussion later. Rejoining Max and Val, they go to Etta’s office to review the tapes they worked so hard to keep from Armbruster’s clutches. They see the footage of Valerie hunting down and killing Solomon’s father, Professor Benjamin Buchman. Val says it was self-defense, and finally tells the tale from her point of view.

From a young age, her deformed appearance left her feeling unloved and lonely. That is until Henry Cobb Armbruster found her, and said that society’s perfect ideal of women—typified in the Amazon princess—was totally unimportant. He loved the real her. And while he said looks didn’t matter, eventually she wanted to find some way of normalizing her appearance, so the two of them wouldn’t be judged by the outside world. With Armbruster’s riches, he was able to put together a lab and hire Professor Buchman. The treatment involved wrapping her completely in bandages, like a mummy, and floating her in a tank—she mentions it was like this one movie, Altered States, in which William Hurt spends time in a sensory deprivation tank and come out physically transformed. Sure enough, when she came out she had the body of a model, and Armbruster called her his silver swan—at the memory, and knowledge that she’s betrayed him, Val starts to cry, but Wonder Woman tells her people in love don’t hurt each other. But Valerie replied that the businessman had kept her safe from Professor Buchman, and, resuming her story, said that despite his better judgement, Armbruster had agreed to let the professor do a few more experiments—though the artwork makes it seem like the elderly scientist was the one being loudly convinced. So she went back in the tank, but upon hearing her boyfriend desperately yelling, there was an explosion, and she found herself flying through the wrecked lab. She spotted Armbruster prone, with the Professor standing above him with a large wrench, and the sight caused something to well up inside her, coming out as a sonic scream. The destruction killed the elder Buchman, and she was frightened she’d be arrested, but Armbruster said he’d protect her, and help her learn to harness this new power.

But Maxine scoffs at Val’s tale of her supposed-protector, saying her friend should have been honest about her appearance when they were childhood pen pals. But Valerie’s convinced the businessman still loves her, though her friend and the superhero have ensured her death. But before Wonder Woman can get clarification on that point, Maxine asks if the power of the Golden Lasso could help Val see the truth. The Amazon explains that, unlike Ares—who knew the ultimate folly of his plan deep down—Valerie’s mind is so protected in layers of lies that burning them away with Hestia’s fire could cause permanent damage.

Just then, Etta says she’d found something strange in the Swan’s medical records, and points to her computer screen, where two scans of Val post-her transformation—taken about two years apart—are so different they seem to be showing two completely different people.

But before they can figure out what that means, Max notices that her friend has left the room. Following after, Wonder Woman spots an open window, through which can be seen a hovering helicopter with the Silver Swan climbing into it. But then she hears her friends calling her name, and the Amazon rushes back to find Etta and Maxine being held at gunpoint by Armbruster’s men.

Wonder Woman Annual vol. 4 issue 1
August, 2015
Rating: ★★★★☆
War-Torn, Final Chapter
Picking back up with the Justice League in the insectoid queen’s throne room, Diana’s narration recaps that these aliens were reawakened when she trapped the First Born underground again. The Amazon tells the Queen that while she didn’t realize the consequences of her actions would be so many deaths, the killings have to stop. The Queen replies that they’re doing what they have to to escape the prison that’s held them for eons, explaining that they are a race of interstellar explorers whose ship was thrown off-course by a solar flare. Trapped on prehistoric Earth with no way to take off again, they went into cryosleep in hopes their brethren would eventually come to their aid, but clearly it’s been so long that no help is coming. Diana says there’s still no justification for the people they’ve killed, but the Queen defiantly answers that they won’t just sit back and die. They’d return to their homeworld if they could, but their ship was too-far damaged in the crash. Wonder Woman says a lot has changed in millions of years—for one thing, they aren’t Earth’s only visitors, motioning at Superman. Cyborg does some scans, determining that it WILL be possible to repair their ship, thanks to all the extraterrestrial technology the JL has come across over the years. Saying they never thought there’d be a chance, the Queen thanks them, agreeing to their aid so they can finally go back home.

Back on Paradise Island, Diana and Dessa stand over the carnage-strewn battlefield that used to be their brothers’ camp. The advisor explains that Donna took twenty Amazons with her, and the rest of the city didn’t realize what was happening until it was too late. They may not have wanted the men there, but majority of the island’s inhabitants didn’t want them slaughtered. The queen says those guilty will face justice, flying off. She charges into the crowded Themysciran throne room, demanding answers. Donna, standing above the others with her back to Diana, says they exterminated the infestation that threatened their home. The men got what was coming to them, just like Wonder Woman will, but—as everyone else runs to escape the confrontation—Diana replies that the would-be usurper will regret this, saying when her hate finally burns out she’ll have nothing left. Finally turning, Donna attacks, the showdown that’s been building between the two women at last coming to a head. Throwing punches, Donna says her hate fuels her, but Diana answers that it only blinds her, throwing her back through a wall and saying she’s anything but the perfect Amazon she claims to be. As they draw swords and start hacking at each other, Donna calls Diana a coward, but Wonder Woman says Amazons make mistakes, learn from them, and work to build up their sisters. She severs her opponent’s sword-arm, but instead of blood there’s clay, and Donna simply reattaches it, good as new, saying it’s time to redefine perfection. A series of devastating blows, along with taunts of weakness, send Diana crashing to the ground, turning the floor to rubble. Donna stands above with her sword raised, screaming about being perfect. But Wonder Woman blocks the blow with her cuffs, saying she pities Donna for unknowingly being Derinoe’s tool, brought to life only to act on her aunt’s fears. Reaching for her lasso, she catches it around the younger woman, saying she needs to, at last, see the truth. Brought to her knees, Donna’s eyes go wide in revelation, as Wonder Woman kindly tells her the word that truly defines Amazons is “sister.”

Leading her out of the ruined throne room, Diana says that despite wishing it hadn’t come to this. Donna must pay for the deaths she’s caused. As Derinoe catches sight of them leaving, whispering that it can’t be, Wonder Woman stands above her people, saying their infighting is finally at an end. The women who were part of the attack will face justice, and they all must be reminded that the Amazons aren’t just warriors, they’re also sisters, and they know that true strength comes in facing their fears head-on. Her aunt sneaks up on her from behind, clutching a dagger and whispering that Diana will inevitably betray them, just like Hippolyta did. But when she raises her arm to strike, a sword lodges in her chest. Shocked at her dying cry, Diana turns to see the body, then the Amazon in the crowd who threw the blade calls out that they did let their fears control them, and they all bow to their queen, admitting that she didn’t betray them, they betrayed themselves.

From there the issue wraps up with with narration from Diana, saying that really was the end of the fighting. The sons of Themyscira were given full honors with an Amazon funeral, which we see Diana and Dessa watching, and it was decided no more of their sons would be sent away. In their place, the twenty who joined Donna in the slaughter were sentenced to work in Hephaestus’ forge, while the ringleader was imprisoned on Mount Olympus. She’s still unsure what truly caused her aunt’s actions, but thanks to her she’s learned that she needs balance in her royal duties as well as consideration for her people’s feelings. Change will come, but they don’t have to let it change who they are at their core.

For the Love of a Queen
On an otherwise happy day on Paradise Island, Derinoe stands in shadow apart from the rest, brooding on the loss of her youth, cursed to be the only elderly woman in a place where everyone else is forever beautiful and strong. Gazing out to sea, she thinks on her life story of sacrifice and betrayal.

Cut to long ago, when Derinoe and Hippolyta were both young women, playfully racing through the woods, Derinoe tackled her quarry, but their tender moment was cut short by a trumpet blast, signaling the arrival of a delegation from Sparta. Queen Alcippe, Hippolyta’s mother, was hosting them, and though Derinoe was nervous about men on their island, Hippolyta said they couldn’t be that bad.

In the throne room, Ambassador Charax of Sparta insinuated the Amazons must really have found the fountain of youth, but getting to the point, said they’d come to alert the Amazons about a necromancer, Hecate, building a zombie army on Crete. Alcippe replied that no one could conquer her island, and Charax answered that Sparta’s king, Kleomenes, wanted to ensure good relations between their people. But at a banquet for the visitors, the queen sampled a flask of wine sent by the spartan king personally, and keeled over dead.

The men were seized and—as Derinoe narrates that she realized long after that their relationship went from personal to professional that day—we see that Hippolyta interrogated Charax, who confessed that the deception was a deal the Spartan king made with Hecate to spare his city. The new queen declared her people would demand retribution for this betrayal, ordering the army to make ready to head to Sparta.

They were camped outside the city-state within seven days, Hippolyta and her generals planning to strike in the morning. Everyone else left, but Derinoe held back to warn the queen not to forget about the witch. Hippolyta dismissed Hecate as an excuse the Spartans used to attack Paradise Island, hoping to find the fountain of youth they believed was the cause of the Amazons’ long lives, since they’d had countless monarchs during Alcippe’s millennia-long reign. The men didn’t actually know the cost the Amazons must pay for their immortality, but the queen was convinced they didn’t care in their lust for power. She dismissed Derinoe, who whispered to herself that she’d always protect Hippolyta, and sure enough, it was her, sleeping outside the queen’s pavilion, who awoke in the middle of the night, seeing a shadow in the tent. Sensing something amiss, she cut a hole in the side to see a living shadow holding a dagger—lightning-shaped and glowing blue—above the sleeping queen. She tackled the shape, which dissolved away, leaving her clutching the magic dagger, flat on her back and crying out in pain. The noise awoke Hippolyta, who, seeing what happened, grabbed a mallet and knocked the dagger out of her protector’s hand, but it was already too late. The woman had aged sixty years in seconds, and while she said at the time it was worth it to protect the queen, her narration says she was foolish to think giving up her youth for love was worth it.

The attack on Sparta never happened, with the Amazons retreating before dawn, and once home they banned men from Paradise Island so they’d never be betrayed again. News came that Hecate, who we now see is a familiar spikey-headed snake-woman, eventually moved on from Greece to go harass lands northwards. As for Derinoe, she hid herself away, feeling unworthy due to her advanced age. Instead, she watched the queen from a distance, crying when Hippolyta, in her view, was tricked by men just like Alcippe was, and gave birth to Diana.

Returning to the old Amazon’s present, we see Diana welcoming the shipfull of Hephaestus’ workers, with Derinoe narrating that she won’t let such betrayal happen again. It’s time to do something, and if it takes reaching out to the witch that cursed her with eternal age—so be it.

Wonder Woman season 3 episode 9: The Deadly Dolphin
December 1, 1978
Rating: ★★★☆☆
At the Los Angeles Oceanic Park Annual Marine Exhibition—A.K.A. Seaworld with the serial numbers filed off—Doctor Sylvia Stubbs is supervising a dolphin, named Bluebeard, being loaded into a truck to be taken to San Diego. At the front gates, a squad car pulls up and officers rush through the entry, taking point around an armored car. The sheriff finds the truck with Bluebeard, calling the security guards to help guard them since they got a tip there’d be a robbery. The doctor is irate, but once the other men are gone, the supposed-sheriff grabs her by the arm and throws her into the back of the truck with the dolphin, trapping her. He then gets in the cab and drive off, with another phony officer driving the squad car from the front gate as an escort.

Luckily the next scene isn’t a repeat of the last superhero dolphin heist I saw, but later that day, Diana arrives, via taxi, to a San Diego Navy base, late for her meeting at their undersea research lab due to her delayed flight. The guard at the front gate informs her that the dolphin she was sent to inspect has been stolen, so she calls Steve, who informs her that Bluebeard had been picked up from the ocean a couple days ago when he followed one of the Oceanic Park’s boats, and once they spotted the dolphin’s navy tattoo they alerted the authorities. The mark proved Bluebeard was a Navy research dolphin, but his service record is missing, so they weren’t able to figured out more—except that he’s spent the last four years stationed out of Florida, and went missing two weeks ago in the Caribbean. With a top speed of 80 miles per day, it’s impossible for a dolphin to swim from Florida to San Diego in two weeks, even if it could manage the locks at the Panama Canal, so the only thing they can figure is that Bluebeard was captured in the Atlantic, then flown or driven across the continental US and somehow escaped in the Pacific, only to now be restolen.

Cut to the private jet of Silas Lockhart, where the businessman is interrupted from gazing down at expensive beachfront property by a phone call from Gaffer, the phony sheriff. The thief says they’ve got Bluebeard, and this time he won’t get away. Lockhart celebrates with champagne, sure he’ll soon possess the world’s most expensive real estate.

At the Oceanic Park, Diana tells Dr. Stubb’s assistant, Darrell, that the truck carrying Bluebeard was spotted in a nearby city called Mountain Junction. Baffled that anyone would take a dolphin inland, Darrell tells Diana that Bluebeard has a voracious appetite, so if she tracks down a shop selling fish, she’ll probably find the thieves as well.

Sure enough, Mountain Junction has ONE fish market, and as she approaches she sees a man in a sheriff’s uniform—the same one who escorted the dolphin-carrier from the park—exit, comedically carrying armloads of brown paper bags. She “accidentally” runs into him, knocking his purchase all over the ground, and as she goes to help gather them, the man tries to explain that the dozens of fish are for the many, many cats he owns. He becomes increasingly panicked as she asks questions, eventually trying to get her to leave him alone by giving her one of the wrapped fish. He gets in his squad car and drives off, radioing Gaffer, but Diana finds an alley and spins into her costume. She leaps into the path of the vehicle, forcing him to stop, but when he gets out and aims a rifle at her, she simply bends the barrel and demands to know where Bluebeard is.

Cut to Diana Prince driving along a rocky shore, where she finds the stolen truck, empty except for Dr. Stubbs. Once untied, the marine mammal curator says that Gaffer let the stolen dolphin loose in the ocean again, and we get a scene straight out of a Rocky montage of the phony sheriff running down the beach, cheering, as Bluebeard swims parallel to the shore.

Sometime later, Diana returns to the park, bringing a transmitter harness for Gladys—Bluebeard’s mate during his short stay—to wear in order to help find the missing dolphin. Dr. Stubbs explains that it’s unnecessary—the female bottlenose has a radio implant that, once it starts to beep, she’s trained to return to shore. Darrell joins them, and Diana explains that Billy, the goon Wonder Woman caught, is going to be set free by the authorities (despite him being guilty of impersonating an officer) and he didn’t know any useful information. Dr. Stubbs is sure there has to be a mastermind above Gaffer, and Diana says that once they find Bluebeard, with Gladys as their romantic bait—since his following her was how they caught him in the first place—they’ll be able to track down whoever’s behind all this.

Meanwhile, Lockhart—the man behind all this—is in the office of a real estate developer, trying to convince him to sell a stake in the housing project he’s building. Goodspeed refuses, despite Lockhart saying if something went wrong, the developer has invested so much he’d beg his rival to buy. But Goodspeed replies that he won’t let Lockhart own ALL the coastland north of Mexico, and so the investor says he gave him one last chance, before saying he’s off to go fishing.

We next see Diana, Dr. Stubbs, and Darrell at the coast, listening to Gladys’ transmitter as she combs the ocean for Bluebeard. Darrell gives some unhelpful, C-3PO-style odds of finding their missing dolphin in the entire Pacific, but then the transmitter signal starts beeping more rapidly, and they notice birds starting to fly away in a panic. Through binoculars, Diana spots shark fins in the water, dangerously close to Gladys, who isn’t responding to their “return to shore” messages. The IADC agent sends Dr. Stubbs and Darrell to get the boat, then ducking into the same cave that housed the villain’s lair in the season two episode “Girl from Islandia”—I checked—spins directly into her swimming costume then runs into the surf. She swims out, flippers magically appearing on her feet once she’s underwater, and gives a blast of what I can only assume is her “communicate with animals” power, sending the sharks fleeing. Safely back at the par, Dr. Stubbs finishes examining Gladys, saying she’s fine and only needs to rest, and it’s a good thing the sharks were scared off.

In the meantime, Lockhart meets up with Gaffer at his yacht, delivering a bomb with NASA-style magnets—the businessman bought the only company that makes them, naturally—attached to a dolphin harness. It’s explained that the top side of the bomb is super-strong and will stay attached once in place, but the harness will detach easily, allowing Bluebeard to swim free. They make their way to a Navy missile testing range, where an old ship is set up as a target. Following Gaffer’s radio signal, Bluebeard delivers his payload, then swims back. The resulting explosion impresses the Navy captain whose ship was aiming at that target, only to be informed by a lieutenant that they haven’t actually fired yet, while Gaffer says the test went flawlessly, though he wishes he knew what their real goal actually was.

Back aboard his private jet, Lockhart looks down at their ultimate target: a gigantic tanker that holds over three million barrels of crude oil. He comments to his bomb expert that if all that oil were to spill, why anyone who happened to own coastal property would be just desperate to sell.
We get a quick scene at the Naval base, where the lieutenant tells Diana he’s sure his ship didn’t fire on their target, but the only unusual thing divers were able to find was a small chunk of metal. The IADC agent examines it, realizing it’s magnetic when it gets too close to some nearby metal. Upon hearing it’s similar to the kind used in space, the lieutenant wonders if it’s from a satellite, but Diana says it might have fallen off a dolphin instead.

Then back to Lockhart, now in a limo, hearing that everything is ready to go, except for one snag—the bomb as-is is too small to destroy the oil tanker. The solution is to replace the release magnets with more explosive, to which Lockhart replies one dolphin’s life is meaningless when they’re already planning the biggest oil spill ever.

Meanwhile, Diana’s tracked down the company that makes the space-magnets. She approaches the gate, pressing the intercom while a guard dog runs up and starts barking at her from the other side of the fence, but the voice on the other end refuses to let her in, even when she says she’s with the government. She spins into her costume, leaping over the fence and calming the dog, then makes her way inside, though not before a guard spots her and sounds the alarm. As the bomb tech leaves with a briefcase, Wonder Woman fends off a wave of attackers in lab coats, tossing them into stacks of seemingly-empty cardboard boxes marked “fragile.” Heading outside again, the elderly security guard confronts her, then wisely throws away his gun. His upward glance clues her in, so she jumps to the roof, then down through a skylight into an inner office, where she finds a file on Gaffer.

Calling Steve, Diana reports that the file is Melvin Schulz, alias Gaffer’s, service record, which must have been taken along with Bluebeard’s to keep them off the trail. Once IRA has his real name, it’s able to identify him as one of the dolphin’s trainers, before he was dishonorable discharged. The only other info is that Schulz was trained in demolition, which clues them in that the bomb that destroyed the target ship was placed by their missing bottlenose. The humans start talking leads, ignoring the computer’s words until it lets out a loud screech, interrupting them. It’s finally able to share that it has records that Schulz recently bought a boat, the Jolly-O—which again, has the same name and looks identical to the boat in “The Girl from Islandia.” She heads to the marina to find it, but quickly recognizes a smell and spots Billy, once again carrying armloads of fish. She chases him, but is swiftly caught by Lockhart’s goon, with the boss ordering her to be taken aboard.

After a commercial break, we join Dr. Stubbs and Darrell driving along the coast, trying to track Gladys’ radio signal—they say the dolphin is still heading north, but they’re in California and the ocean is on their right, which at this point I’m too tired to care about. They spot the oil tanker before driving off, as we see Bluebeard take off towards the vessel, Gaffer still ignorant as to their target. He calls for Billy’s assistance on the bridge, though the goon is guarding a bound Diana and is reluctant to respond. Finally he goes, but is chided by the bomb tech for leaving his post. This leads to a question of leadership, with Lockhart pulling both a gun and an “Look at me, I am the captain now” moment. Meanwhile, Diana is able to free her hands, swiftly undoing the rest of her bonds and spinning into her costume. As they near the oil tanker, Gaffer finally spots it and puts two and two together, appalled at the damage and loss of life—both human and marine—they’ll cause. Wonder Woman eavesdrops as he tries futilely to signal the dolphin to turn back, with Lockhart saying only his transmitter will work now—but it’s a moot point anyway because Bluebeard isn’t strong enough to disconnect from the bomb once it’s placed. Hearing this, the superhero runs to the back of the boat and spins into her swimming costume, diving overboard. As Dr. Stubbs and Darrell pull over to try and figure out how another radio is interfering with their signal, Bluebeard delivers his payload, but is unable to break free. Wonder Woman meets up with Gladys, communicating that they have to rescue their friend, then reaches him and loosens his harness, then pulls the bomb free from the bottom of the ship. She swims to the surface and throws it far off, where it explodes harmlessly. As Lockhart scoffs in frustration that the tanker is in once peace, Dr. Stubbs and Darrell spot their bottlenose friends swimming free, excitedly running to the beach to get a better look, cheering.

Back at the Oceanic Park, the Gladys and Bluebeard are safely back in their pool, with Gaffer joining Dr. Stubbs and Darrell to care for the dolphins as part of his probation. According to Diana, Wonder Woman hopes the trainer will be able to retrain Bluebeard NOT to deliver magnetic bombs, so that no one will target the dolphin again. The superhero also mentioned that he wasn’t exactly crying when she boarded the boat and put Lockhart in custody, and the episode ends with them all laughing at their aquatic friends’ antics.

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 29: Adventure of the Escaped Prisoner — 2:02
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 42: The Silver Wings of Terror — 13:04
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 40: War-Torn, Chapter 5 — 25:15
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 8: Skateboard Wiz — 36:32
News — 58:30

Information on Columbia/the goddess of liberty

DC Future State’s new Wonder Woman

Future State’s new Nubia story

Future State’s new Immortal Wonder Woman and The Last Amazons

New Wonder Woman story coming to Serial Box

Adrianne Palicki talks about her Wonder Woman pilot that wasn’t picked up

An extra wearing a Wonder Woman Halloween costume was spotted during the filming of The Batman

Gal and Patty to reunite for a Cleopatra movie

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 28: The Malice of the Green Imps — 3:14
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 41: The Ties that Bind — 14:50
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 39: War-Torn, Chapter 4 — 25:11
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 7: Time Bomb — 33:25
DC FanDome day 2 recap — 1:01:15
News — 1:07:34

DC FanDome WW84 Amazons panel

WW84 delayed. Yes, again.

Wonder Woman 1984 international trailer with one new shot

WW84 Reebok collection, with a video featuring Coronavirus nurses

A Revlon ad disguised as a WW84 behind-the-scenes video

“NYCC-exclusive” WW84 Funko Pop

Microsoft/WW84/Smithsonian kid’s coding lessons

Gal Gadot ’70s Wonder Woman DeepFake

The article about whether the Lasso of Truth can be used in court (Figured I’d repost it since I mentioned it again.)

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Comic Cavalcade vol. 1 issue 6: The Mystery of Countess Mazuma — 2:45
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 40: Divided We Fall — 12:55
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 38: War-Torn, Chapter 3 — 28:08
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 6: Formicida — 38:18
DC FanDome recap, including a live reaction to the new Wonder Woman 1984 trailer — 57:05
News — 1:09:19

New Wonder Woman 1984 trailer

DC FanDome Wonder Woman 1984 panel

Venus Williams Wonder Woman-themed athletics wear

DC FanDome Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary panel and new Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary logo

DC FanDome Wonder Woman 1984 Werewolf game

Wonder Woman 1984-themed “Xboxes” (actually fancy sculptures) sweepstakes

Wonder Woman 1984 clothing lines at Hot Topic and Ralph Lauren

Wonder Woman 1984 runtime confirmed at 151 minutes

Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection blu-ray confirmed to have the original aspect ratio

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Wonder Woman vol. 1 issue 8 — 2:06
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 39: Poisoned Souls — 26:11
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 37: War-Torn, Chapter 2 — 38:47
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 5: Disco Devil — 48:26
News — 1:07:43

Patty Jenkins talks about the Amazon Olympics in Wonder Woman 1984

Revlon releases Wonder Woman 1984 makeup line

SPOILER ALERT: WW84 children’s novelizations published, giving away plot details

Wonder Woman: The Way of the Amazons illustrated in-universe guidebook released

Wonder Woman TV show released on blu-ray

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 27: The Fun Foundation — 3:09
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 38: Forbidden Fruit — 14:15
Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 36: War-Torn — 26:27
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 4: The Fine Art of Crime — 37:24
News — 53:40

Diana Prince: Wonder Woman episode 20 — Year of the Cheetah: Priscilla Rich in the Golden Age

The Marvel Handbook episode A10: Avengers, Avengers Mansion, Avengers Quinjet, Autocrons

Tour of the Amazon Village recreation museum in Turkey

Wonder Woman 1984 delayed to October 2

DC Fandome virtual convention announced

New WW84 still of Steve and Diana

WW84 costume designer talks about the gold armor and Cheetah’s look

Patty Jenkins discusses how current events will influence Wonder Woman 3

Clip of Diana from the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League

Wonder Woman and other DC characters audio drama podcasts coming to Spotify

Wonder Woman: The Themyscira Experience coming to the videogame Roblox

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 26: The Masquerader — 2:08
Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 37: Strangers in Paradise — 15:47
Secret Origins vol. 3 issue 6: The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman! — 27:05
Wonder Woman season 3 episode 3: The Deadly Sting — 39:19
JLMay special! Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 221: Pride of the Amazons — 57:59
News — 1:32:24

I found the clip of May from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fighting her doppelganger and figured it was worth including

Married With Comics podcast starring Jon and Maggie

Married With Comics Facebook page

Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be released on HBO Max in 2021

A new Wonder Woman 1984 poster has been released

Patty Jenkins shares that originally WW84 was only going to have one villain

WW84 could be pushed back to December 2020 if Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is unable to hit its release date

Gal Gadot surprises a group of nurses who dress in Wonder Woman shirts during the pandemic

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Angela and Diabolu Frank went so off-topic while recording a podcast for Rolled Spine that he made an entire episode out of it.

73 Questions with Gal Gadot where she talks about Wonder Bira

New Wonder Woman 1984 posters, several sets of stills, Legos, and promo art with a very José Luis García-López look.

WW84 officially rated PG-13

Connie Nielson is honest about the possibility of WW84 getting pushed back again

Patty Jenkins talks about the possibility of an Amazons spin-off movie before Wonder Woman 3.

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Lyle Waggoner passed away on March 17 at age 84

Lynda Carter pays tribute to Lyle Waggoner

Video of the Wonder Woman: Visions exhibit featuring artwork from this issue

Fire and Water Gene Colan Showcase where Angela talks about the history of the real-world Wonder Woman Foundation

Wonder Woman 1984 pushed back to August 14, 2020

Another photo released from WW84

Two new WW84 motion posters of Diana in her eagle armor, one with and one without the helmet

Johnny Harris, composer for the Wonder Woman TV show, passed away

New photo of Megan Gale as Wonder Woman from the cancelled Justice League: Mortal movie 

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