‘A BATTLE WELL FOUGHT’ GN Review – Wonder Woman: Vol. 6 Bones: Brian Azzarello, Cliff Chiang & Goran Sudzuka (DC Comics)

Day Twelve of Tripwire’s graphic novel review a day and today it’s Wonder Woman: Volume 6 Bones, by Brian Azzarello, Cliff Chiang and Goran Sudzuka.

This hardcover reprints the end of Azzarello and Chiang’s three year run on DC’s Amazon princess and showcases why it was one of the better-received of the New 52 titles. Here, monstrous deity the First Born has seized control of Olympus while Diana has been made queen of the Amazons. But the First Born will not rest until all of the gods have been crushed out of existence and so Diana is forced to risk all to defeat the creature.

Azzarello strikes a great balance between the epic and more human side of the story and Chiang’s clean lines have a simple elegance and a graphic sophistication to them that really compliment Azzarello’s writing. The fill-in by Goran Sudzuka on #32 works extremely well as he is an artist cut from the same cloth as Chiang and so the flow of the story isn’t disrupted.

Azzarello and Chiang’s Wonder Woman is a three-year run that the creators can be justifiably proud of and here they wrap up the story with suitable style and panache. Arguably, they made Wonder Woman better than it’s been in a number of decades…

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