Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals

Wonder Woman is perhaps the most iconic female character in comics and one of the few superheroes to remain in continuous publication since the Golden Age, but Diana of Themyscira has had an uneven and somewhat rocky creative history. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, George Pérez took it upon himself to radically reinvent the character with co-plotter and scripter Greg Potter, emphasizing her mythological roots and attempting to address the patriarchy and its impulse to war. We look at the first seven-issue arc, "Gods and Mortals," and how it establishes a new status quo, engages with late-Cold War nuclear fears, and tries to solve DC’s longstanding “Wonder Woman problem.”