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Although this is the final issue of Volume Two, I personally found the previous
issue to be a more worthy and fitting finale to the Amazon's first Post Crisis
volume of adventures. In Issue 225 Greg Rucka managed
to encapsulate everything Diana is, was and will be. Issue 226 however feels
very much like padding and filler material, bridging an unwanted gap in publishing
schedules.
It would be three months before the first issue of Volume Three would go on
sale in order to give the new creative team time to get up to speed. Why DC
felt the need to "tack on" this final issue is unknown, apart from
perhaps making it tie in more seamlessly with events in "Infinite Crisis"
#5 published during the same month. In "Infinite Crisis", Wonder Woman
gets a reasonable amount of panel time devoted to her and we see a hint of her
new future direction. As the world crumbles around our heroes with the return
of "Earth Two", Wonder Woman gets to meet her pre-crisis self. This
"Diana Prince" tells our Diana that "You've been
a Princess, a Goddess, an Ambassador and a Warrior...but the one thing you haven't
been for a very long time is human." What could she be getting at?
A secret identity perhaps, so Diana can walk among the mortals of Patriarch's
World as one of them? All would be revealed soon enough...
Whether Rucka intended it for creative reasons, or whether it was a genuine
mistake, the continuity of the various "flashbacks" in this issue
is out of order. According to the issue, Diana had opened the Themyscircan Embassey
six years ago after having been killed by Neron and resurrected as a Goddess.
It then states that five years ago (i.e. one year later), Diana had
lost her title of Wonder Woman to Artemis. These events actually occurred in
reverse order and seems a very obvious and cumbersome continuity error - at
least to fans who know Diana's history inside out!!!
Still, regardless of these "niggles" with the storyline, some fans
felt that seeing as this was, at least officially, the final ever issue
of "Wonder Woman", the limelight should have been all Diana's
- but once again she was forced to share what should be her "swan song"
with Superman. Why could Diana not stand alone to take her final bow?
Why indeed.
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Plot Summary: |
We basically see a summary of several key occasions Diana and Kal El have met
and spoken over the course of the last nine years. The aim is to show their
relationship and how it has always remained strong throughout the various crisis
that have taken place around them. With Wonder Woman's cold blooded killing
of Max Lord and Superman seemingly unable to forgive her though, can their relationship
ever be what it was?
