Wonder Woman: Land of the Dead - Softcover

Johns, Geoff; Rucka, Greg; Morales, Rags

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401209386 ISBN 13: 9781401209384

Publisher: Dc Comics, 2006

Synopsis

Just as Wonder Woman is starting to deal with her blindness, the Cheetah returns and teams up with another villain known for speed: The Reverse Flash!Wally West, the real Flash, joins forces with Wonder Woman to stop the villainous duo from causing untold havoc.Then, the goddess Athena sends Wonder Woman on a journey to retrieve something believed lost to the Olympian Gods forever. Joined by Wonder Girl and Ferdinand the Minotaur, Wonder Woman must face unimagined peril to complete her mission. But should she succeed, what will Diana ask in return from the all-seeing Goddess of Wisdom?

About this title

About the Author:

Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. Johns is the author of the New York Times best-selling graphic novels Aquaman: The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, Justice League: Origin, Superman: Brainiac and Batman: Earth One which hit number one on the bestseller list. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow, and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and resides in Los Angeles, California.

Greg Rucka is a novelist whose work on Batman brought fresh attention to the character and to the inhabitants of Gotham City. He won the Eisner Award for Best Story with Gotham Central's "Half a Life." His other DC credits include Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, the Batwoman adventures in Detective Comics, and Superman: World of New Krypton. He was one of the co-writers of DC's weekly series 52.

Rags Morales started his DC career working on comics based on TSR's role-playing games such as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. His first super-hero series for DC Comics was the Black Condor. Since then, he has worked on most of DC's major heroes including a long run on JSA and Hawkman, which served as warm-ups to the best-selling Identity Crisis written by New York Times # 1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer. Since then, he has illustrated the adventures of Wonder Woman and Batman: Confidential.

From Booklist:

In this long, well-plotted story arc, Wonder Woman, aka Diana, is faced with challenges on every level. The Amazon island Themyscira, no longer floating above the ocean, now rests off the coast of the Carolinas, which brings up all sorts of U.S. security issues that Diana, as official Amazonian ambassador, must deal with. Unknown to her, the deadly gorgon Medousa and her evil sisters have been released and want revenge against the goddess Athena and her champion, Wonder Woman. At the same time, Athena plots a bloodless coup against Zeus for the rule of Mount Olympus. Medousa challenges Diana to a fight to the death, and in order to beat the gorgon's deadly gaze, Diana blinds herself. While Wonder Woman triumphs, the cost--the life of her friends' young son--is almost too much for her to bear. Then, Athena herself calls upon the still-blind Wonder Woman to help her cement her power on Olympus. Rucka serves up an exhilarating adventure while still allowing us to see the classic superheroine's softer side. His Wonder Woman still packs a punch but also comes across as very human. A traditional comic-book style reigns in the artwork. Tina Coleman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dc Comics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1401209386
• ISBN 13: 9781401209384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128