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  • Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, Volume 1
    May 24, 2026
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5
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    This is hands down, the best curated anthology of superhero comics that I've read. While having wildly different tones and art styles, every story in this book is a great example of what a Wonder Woman story could be.

    This could easily be used as a primer for someone who wasn't sure they'd like Wonder Woman comics.

    I recommend this to any comic book reader. Wonder Woman fan or not.

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    Gail Simone

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  • Titans Beast World Tour
    May 22, 2026
    1.5
    Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 1.0
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    A completely unnecessary expansion on the main Beast World story. I couldn't find a single interesting page in the book. It doesn't add any depth to the lore, and the only thing it explains is why, at one point in the main story, Oracle tells Nightwing not to worry about Damian Wayne. I could have lived without knowing the story behind that one sentence.

    Even if you're a completist, there really is no reason to get this book. None of the writers are given time to tell interesting stories, and because the art changes every five to seven pages, it's hard to really get comfortable before the steady stylistic whiplash.

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  • Titans Beast World: Beast World
    May 22, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    This was exactly the kind of fun I hope all DC crossovers will be. There's a wide cast of characters but they're all easy to follow. The stakes are ridiculously high and world-threatening, but the threats are not multidimensional-time-ending-super-complex villains that don't make any sense.

    This is a story of a massive threat, a heroic team that makes a mistake, and the government/corporate threats that seek to use the mistake for their personal gains.

    I thought Taylor's first volume of Titans was a bit disappointing and too dependent on nostalgia for earlier Titans books. This book is a direct homage to the first Justice League adventure but with surprising twists and solutions. And I love it.

    I think this works for fans of any era of Titans comics, fans of the Teen Titans cartoons (but not, necessarily, Teen Titans Go! although that gets some Easter Egg treatment), and really anyone who like a good old DC heroes vs starfish story,.

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  • JLA: A League of One
    May 21, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 1.5

    If you're a Wonder Woman fan who also enjoys painted comics, and mid-twentieth century style high fantasy and/or sci-fi, then this is totally a four or five star book.

    The art is incredible. But, as a writer, Christopher Moeller is a very talented painter.

    The main story, a fantasy-genre story where Wonder Woman hears a prophecy that if an upcoming quest with the Justice League will end in their deaths is as-surfacey as a story like that can be. The stakes never feel important, the dialogue is mostly exposition, and nobody seems to have a personality. They're just moving the plot along.

    There's also dragons and...other fantasy creatures. It's just not in-line with other Wonder Woman or Justice League books. That would be completely fine, if it were in any way interesting. Unfortunately, it's just a bland story with fantastic art.

    The same can be said of the second story, JLA Classified: Cold Steel, which switches out fantasy for sci-fi.

    There's just no imagination in it. At one point, the story needs mech suits. While, again, beautifully rendered, the design is precisely what you'd expect if you asked a middle school student to draw mech suits for superheroes. It's hard not to shrug at their reveal.

    I struggled not to just flip through the pages of this. The story was just a first draft outline of an idea. As much a sketch, as the collection of character designs that served as bonus material at the end of the collection.

    There's so few Wonder Woman stories in the world, compared to Batman, Superman, the Green Lanterns, and The Flash. I really wanted this to be cool and fun, but it was neither.

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