Date Published: July 3, 2018
Format: Print
Source: Own copy
Date Read: May 16, 2019
Read for BoB Cycle 25
Blurb
Author Marguerite Bennett (DC BOMBSHELLS, BATWOMAN) unites the women of DC BOMBSHELLS in an alternate history tale with Wonder Woman on the front lines of battle.
The Bombshells are back in an all-new series! As our new tale begins, the year is 1943 during WWII, and Wonder Woman is called to Arizona for help by two young girls named Cassie Sandsmark and Donna Troy! The girls' friends and families are being displaced from their homes and forced into internment camps! To save them, can Wonder Woman fight against the same people she once fought alongside?
To make matters worse, Clayface has infiltrated the camp and is disguised as loved ones to throw Wonder Woman off. Collects issues #1-6.
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Review
What a let down! I loved the DC Bombshells alternate universe when they set the story in Europe to fight the Nazis, so I had high expectations that when they set the spin-off story in the US to fight some of the war time prejudice and certain actions taken by the US government. I got crap is what I got. The story takes place in the forests of Washington state after Wonder Woman saved a train full of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans from going to a concentration camp in the desert. The bad guy sent to find these "prisoners" is Clayface (and if you are thinking Who? you are in good company - I love WW comics and have no clue to this villain). WW sacrifices herself to save the prisoners and save the soul of Clayface - this leads to some of the young girls in this saved group to join forces with the now good Clayface to join together and become the Wonder Girls (again, no clue to who/what that group is). Just a waste of WW and a good premise; boring to boot. I am not continuing with this spin-off.
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