Brian Azzarello just made me a Wonder Woman fan for life. By dating this story just enough to let him play around with the origin of her powers, and reveal some new ones, Azzarello has given meaning to aspects of Wonder Woman’s character that have long been taken for granted. Flight is so commonplace in superhero books that it’s easy to forget its symbolic importance, as well as the rush of adrenaline that comes when your new favorite hero does it for the first time.
Right up there with Azzarello’s focused epic story is Cliff Chiang’s artwork that looks better with every issue. There are too many eye-popping, fist-pumping moments to name just one, but what’s most impressive is how Chiang makes it look so easy. His characters are lean and have simple yet defined looks. They move about the page with power and grace. There’s never a moment of confusion as to how the action is unfolding. This book is a lesson in how to draw a good comic.
So many plots threads come together in such poignant ways that after my initial read through, I read it two more times just to see how Azzarello did it all so masterfully. There are themes of birth, freedom, loyalty, and spirituality that all wind together with the art to create visual poetry. DC is putting out a fair number of strong books, but with this conclusion to Birth Right, Wonder Woman crushes them beneath her boot.
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