Chaitra's Reviews > Jla: League of One

I'm still reading random Wonder Woman story arcs while waiting for George Perez's work. I'll never get around to the William Moulton Marston version of Wonder Woman, but I do believe this slim story arc does an effective job of describing WW's core. It's not a conventional superhero premise - she fights a really old dragon. Justice League isn't of any help, because WW has heard a prophecy that anyone who faces the dragon will be killed, and she makes sure every one of them is out of the way.

WW is the only one who can face the dragon, it turns out, because she's no slacker. She's used to purging herself of every bad thought, every lie, and the dragon fire doesn't do much to her. Her struggles with betraying the rest of Justice League also makes for a great arc. I finally feel I'm getting somewhere with this character, that I know who she is and what she stands for, never mind the Themyscira and all that entails, with this comic. Some of the art is also spectacular.