Knight Terrors is affecting DC Comics’ biggest heroes and villains, and this week Wonder Woman’s two-part nightmare begins. Crafted by Josie Campbell and Juan Ferreyra, Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman #1 is more of a Justice League Dark story than a solo hero story. That said, Wonder Woman gets to shine in an action-packed adventure.
Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman #1 opens with a nightmare. An extreme close-up of Bobo’s eye starts the tale, which leads to him seeing disturbing things. Enter Wonder Woman, who wakes him up and rescues him from the nightmare. Soon after, our heroes team up with Constantine and seek out the rest of the Justice League Dark.
The creative team leans into the event’s themes with threats popping up out of nowhere and characters working overtime connected to those nightmares. Everything is framed around a maze, which the heroes enter early on. Ferreyra draws the reveal of this maze in great detail. There’s a cool curving wall that hovers impossibly and a good sense of scale and distance. Add a cool maze design in the gutters on the following pages, and it’s a neat way to create a topsy-turvy sense of mystery.
Wonder Woman to the rescue!
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When the action kicks up a gear, we see Constantine lop off monster heads and show off his magical abilities. Eventually, things turn from bad to worse for Constantine, and Ferreyra heightens the heroic moment of Wonder Woman attempting to save him. There’s a cool series of panels of Wonder Woman punching a wall that leads to a fist bursting out straight into the reader’s face. This leads to a series of double-page layouts leading to the shocking cliffhanger.
That cliffhanger is tied to Wonder Woman, which should force Wonder Woman to come to grips with who she is. Set up earlier, the characters see some demigod artwork bringing up the fact that Wonder Woman is a demigod herself. That concept comes full circle with the main threat in an interesting way.
This issue also has a backup story featuring Nubia by Stephanie Williams and Meghan Hetrick. It’s a bit on the shorter side, but establishes the nightmare and how it’s tied to Nubia. The design of the nightmare is equal parts foreboding and grotesque.
The Justice League Dark gets the focus in Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman #1, but Wonder Woman gets to take charge as the main hero keeping their head about themselves. The magical blends well in a nightmare-infused story that sets up quite a threat for Wonder Woman to vanquish in the final chapter.
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