Written by Becky Cloonan,
Michael Conrad, Jordie Bellaire
Art by Andy MacDonald, Paulina Ganucheau
Published by DC Comics
The Olympian gods are dead!
Nay, just merely dead in the way gods die, when their believers turn away from them. The Greek gods were murdered, by a Roman god they allowed into their ranks.
Well, half of one – the future-gazing half of Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings and endings.
Janus broke away from her counterpart, took the God-Scraper weapon from Hephaestus’ workshop and didn’t stop at Olympus. She’s been cutting her way through space and time as she pleases.
The issue opens on Janus stepping out of a temple on Mars, piles of Green Martians strewn on the steps.
“With each slain god, the future opens its arms to me,” Janus says in narration. “A future without a past. Limitless potential. Infinite possibility. A fateless tomorrow. Who will try and stop me?”
Oh, we know who. Her name’s on the door, pal.
Wonder Woman is already at the Graveyard of the Gods, seeking to find a way to restore the Olympians. Deadman and Ratatosk are at her side as usual in the godsphere, the realms of the supernatural, including various forms of the afterlife.
This “Afterworlds” arc enters part six, as Diana finds herself performing great labors on her own odyssey like Ulysses, Hercules and Jason.
Now that Diana has regained her memory, she’s as bold and go-get-‘em as usual. She spends the entire issue being threatened, and scoffs at those who dare to test her.
She’s not here for rules and protocols if they get in the way of justice.
But this issue also is fun because just when you think Diana might punch her way out of trouble, she decides a battle of wits is better. So it goes with the Keeper of the Grounds, who appears as a giant man dressed in plague doctor’s robes and wide brimmed hat, with an even larger crow’s skull for a head.
More lively things happen with the Olympians, including Diana roughing up a satyr for exactly the reason you would do that.
The next phase of Diana’s quest is under way, as she has charged herself with hunting down Janus and restoring the damage she has done.
I won’t give away which realm in the godsphere Diana turns up in next, but I’ll just say the Ren Fair crowd is going to be quite enchanted with the next issue.
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