The origin of Trinity, Wonder Woman’s daughter, was revealed last month, and now it’s time to see how the Wonder Girls can keep up the fight with The Sovereign. In many ways, Wonder Woman #15 is an issue about the fallout of the last issue as Wonder Woman cares for her baby, and The Sovereign realizes they bit off more than he can chew. It’s not so much about revenge but justice.
Wonder Woman #15 opens with Trinity making baby noises as Wonder Woman sings to her. She’s singing a tune akin to
Five Little Monkeys, only it’s not monkeys jumping on the bed, but princesses. We then cut to Cassie flying a jet towards a battleship and taking heavy fire. Once again, The Sovereign speaks to us through captions, and this issue is devoted to where he’s hidden centuries of wealth. The first place targeted by the Wonder Girls, it seems, is an unmanned battleship.
And so begins an issue that cuts between Wonder Girl gobbling up The Sovereign’s wealth while Wonder Woman tends to her baby. Donna Troy, Yara Flor, and Cheetah all help weaken The Sovereign’s coffers. It’s cool to see the Wonder Girls fight for Diana while we learn how The Sovereign hid and protected their money. The most interesting might be the involvement of a DC supervillain you won’t expect to pop up.
A battleship is nothing for the Wonder Girls to defeat.
Credit: DC Comics
Daniel Sampere’s art is incredible, as always, with an epic double-page spread of Cassie taking out a battleship near the opening of the issue. The fight scene Donna Troy goes through is well-choreographed and keeps you invested.
The biggest gripe I had with this issue is the format, which feels redundant at a certain point. The scenes with the baby don’t add a whole lot since Wonder Woman is singing the same song and the baby is doing baby-things and not much else. The captions add context to each target the Wonder Girls take on, but did we need a whole issue of them taking out wealth areas for the villain?
Wonder Woman #15 is a good but not a great issue. King is a fan of playing with format, which you gotta respect, but it doesn’t feel fulfilling enough to sustain an entire issue. It succeeds in showing the might of Wonder Woman and her Wonder Girls, but it plays out in a repetitive way, leaving you wanting.
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