Wonder Woman 164
January 2001
Three Greek gods have possessed the bodies of Batman villains the Joker, Poison Ivy, and the Scarecrow, and plan to open a dimensional portal in the middle of Gotham City that will allow Ares, God of War, to come to earth. Wonder Woman sets out to stop them, hooking up with Batman, and each bringing along with them their "family" of sidekicks. For Wonder Woman there's Artemis, Troia (the former Wonder Girl), and the current Wonder Girl, plus a brief stop over on Paradise Island, for Batman there's Huntress, Nightwing (the former Robin), the current Robin, and Oracle (the former Batgirl). And comic relief villainess Harly Quinn also shows up.
Essentially this is another one of those stories where part of the point is to arrange a massive team-up between various characters.
This marked the beginning og Phil Jimenez's run on the comic as plotter and artist -- Jimenez, the Man Who Would Be George Perez, only he's possibly even a bit better than Perez with his ability to create mood and employ more limbre figures. But the down side is that Jimenez's art may be a little too busy: lots of little panels crammed with lots of background and details. It can be overwhelming, depersonalizing the human factor. Not to mention it's sometimes hard to tell what's going on, particularly with how darkly Batman's coloured. Of course Jimenez, with his Perez-influenced style, might bring a nostalgic flavour to things, as it was Perez who rebooted Wonder Woman in the late 1980s (and, indeed, this story resurrects God villains encountered in Perez's first story arc).
Essentially this is another one of those stories where part of the point is to arrange a massive team-up between various characters.
This marked the beginning og Phil Jimenez's run on the comic as plotter and artist -- Jimenez, the Man Who Would Be George Perez, only he's possibly even a bit better than Perez with his ability to create mood and employ more limbre figures. But the down side is that Jimenez's art may be a little too busy: lots of little panels crammed with lots of background and details. It can be overwhelming, depersonalizing the human factor. Not to mention it's sometimes hard to tell what's going on, particularly with how darkly Batman's coloured. Of course Jimenez, with his Perez-influenced style, might bring a nostalgic flavour to things, as it was Perez who rebooted Wonder Woman in the late 1980s (and, indeed, this story resurrects God villains encountered in Perez's first story arc).
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