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| Book Title |
Wonder Woman |
| Issue Number: |
127 (456) |
| Published: |
November 1997 |
| Cover Artists: |
Garcia Lopez |
| Writer: |
John Byrne |
| Pencils: |
John Byrne |
| Inker: |
John Byrne |
| Letterer: |
John Byrne |
| Colourist: |
Patricia Mulvihill |
| Editor: |
Paul Kupperberg |
| Story Title: |
Transfiguration |
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| Main Characters (in order of appearance): |
| Takion |
Orion |
Lightray |
Artemis |
Hippolyta |
Donna Troy |
| Cassie Sandsmark |
Julia Kapatelis |
Vanessa Kapatelis |
Wonder Woman
(Princess Diana) |
Bronson |
Doctor Zeul |
Mike Schorr |
Hera |
Helena Sandsmark |
| Merlin |
Jason Blood |
Steve Trevor |
| Etta Candy |
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As a life long Wonder Woman fan, I find this issue to contain a couple of
disturbingly gruesome pieces of dialogue regarding Diana. After her autopsy
(which we thankfully do not see!) two morticians carry her remains down to the
morgue. One comments "Man, that was grim! Never thought I'd have to
load what's left of Wonder Woman into a body bag" and when it becomes
clear she is alive as the bag begins to move... "She can't be!! I had
her brain in my hands for cripes sake!" . Once again, many fans felt
that Byrne had little real respect for the character and what she truly stands
for, relagating DC's most iconic superheroine to merely another "female
victim".
Diana's body is finally killed outright in a failed body transfer experiment
attempted by Dr Zeul. As an autopsy is performed to ascertain the actual cause
of death Hippolyta prays to the Gods of Olympus, who duly answer her request
and resurrect the Amazon Princess as a new deity known as the "Goddess
of Truth".