I'll just cut right to the chase and say that Wonder Woman: Earth One is not going to be a comic for everyone. This original graphic novel offers a more provocative take on the iconic heroine, one that returns her to her Golden Age, bondage-obsessed roots and dabbles in material some readers might find uncomfortable. It's also a surprisingly outlandish and colorful story given the normally straight-laced, grounded nature of DC's Earth One line. But if you come into this book with no goal other than a yearning desire to see Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette offer their own unique spin on a 75-year-old character, you won't be disappointed.
Wonder Woman: Earth One is a story that Morrison has been developing for years, pre-dating the Earth One line and the New 52 entirely. Morrison, as is his wont, uses this book to return to the earliest Wonder Woman stories and make those forgotten elements work in a modern context. Most creators tend to downplay the work of creator William Moulton Marston, whose Diana Prince couldn't go more than a few pages without being tied up or otherwise held in bondage. Morrison revels in the idea of Paradise Island as a part utopia/part Bacchanalian hideaway where domination and submission are the guiding forces of society. The idea being that there was something resonant and meaningful to those old stories beneath the sexually charged situations and imagery. Morrison and Paquette certainly make a convincing case here. One of the predominant themes in the book is the idea that willing submission is an act of strength, not weakness.
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