Wonder Woman #2
	Story Title: 'Who is Wonder Woman?' (Part Two) Writer: Allan Heinberg Penciller: Terry Dodson Inker: Rachel Dodson Colorist: Alex Sinclair Letterer: Rob Leigh Asso. Editor: Nachie Castro Editor: Matt Idelson Published by: DC Comics 'Wonder Woman' created by William Moulton Marston
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

Y’ know, until a few months ago, all that I had seen of the Dodsons art was bits and pieces (mostly sketches), and this title is the first one where I am getting to see them in such…increased capacitance. An’ the more I see of this style, the more and faster I grow weary of it. It is slick, no doubt about that. It is full too, no questions there either. However, even just after two issues, I can’t help but feel that it is just that extra bit…the one that crosses the line between an ‘enjoyable and uplifting experience’ and a ‘overtly gaudy and curvy one’.

Still, in truth I can’t quite object (especially for this issue), for even though I have ‘appropriated’ a copy and read it, I haven’t paid for it myself….nor am I going to. It was somewhere after the third (or was it the fourth) delay of this issue that I decided that until Allan Heinberg wraps up his three issue (or five) run that is going to last till the end of this decade, I wouldn’t be putting down my money for it. This writer maybe the messiah for many a reader, but for one such as me who isn’t all that much into him to start with, these repeated and utterly shameless reschedules just are all the more putting off. Heck, he’s giving Frank Miller a run for his money.

Onto the story, just as with the last issue, we start with Donna and glimpses of her stint as Wonder Woman. Only this time, along with Wonder Girl (looks like she finally got done with her cult-buddies and screwing over innocent and gullible people…cough Raplh Dibny cough) we also have Diana and, in a special appearance, Batman. Then again, we already knew about this from the previews pages that have been floating around for about the last month and a half.

After that, coming onto the present, it’s a whole lotta talking, with Diana, Sarge Steel and Blonde Himbo #2 Nemesis (Steve Trevor is #1), trying to put on a show that comes across as a mixture of that over at SHIELD (Marvel) and Checkmate (DC). Only this show lacks something that both of those ‘organizations’ have…a feeling of depth and actual mystery/danger. And the way that the various characters’ pictures (both hero and villain) are displayed, and with the ‘Google for Ted Kord’ from Blue Beetle #4, it seems that just about everyone in DC knows about just every thing about every hero and/or villain.

There is more of Cassandra and her ‘never-ending hissy fit’, this time both with Diana and Robin (Tim). A point about the art….please stop pulling a Alex Ross and put the lens back on Robin’s mask, as also Batman’s.

Moving on, we have yet another fight scene, one eerily reminiscent to that of the last issue (only with Psycho as Conner instead of Diana). About Conner, the way DC is flogging his dead horse, if and (by the time) when he does return, all that there will be left of him will be a few cheap jokes. We all know that he gave Cassandra a night of ‘Lovin’ of (50%/Clone) Steel’ but how about giving it a rest.

As for the ending, I said it before on a forum, I will repeat it here. Do we really need this a-hole showing up again? (Especially when looking like a female body-builder on a little too many steroids) I didn’t like him during his first ‘Champion’ appearance and really wasn’t into getting a second coming. Also, I thought that the Amazons and their Gods had left this realm. Did the Crisis Wave send them for a loop too? What’s next? An Athena who is the Lord/Lady of the Underworld…or Hades, the God of Love?

Conclusion: Which year is the next issue coming? Also, fans of the Golden Age Wonder Woman (and the TV show) must really be jumping in their chairs with this Throwback-Woman.

RATING: 6/10