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The “New” Wonder Woman gets to shoot down her opponents using a machine gun in this issue! And that’s about all she does do, as she plays second fiddle to Patrick, who seems to be the book’s main character! This is yet another low point for the book in my personal opinion but as stated before, some fans were liking this “modern” Diana. Indeed, the letter column each issue usually contained a mixture of fans both pro and con. Editor Mike Sekowsky would usually make it clear in his responses to negative opinions that the “old” Wonder Woman had been about to be cancelled and that he had been given a “last chance” by DC to revive the book’s sales, which had so far proved successful. At least for the time being.
But there were already rumblings about how William Moulton Marston’s classic and iconic character had been reduced to a shadow of her former self and that perhaps it was time for the experiment to end…