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Comic Cover Of The Week: Wonder Woman – Black And Gold #4
Welcome back, my cool and compelling comic collecting cohorts to another compendium of comic cover collectables! This week we are once again celebrating the outstanding offering of the superb – Wonder Woman: Black and Gold – an awesome anthology series that venerates the astonishing adventures of the Princess of Themyscira.
Ok, ok, I know that the Wonder Woman mini-series – Black and Gold – has had a rather majestic monopoly on our Comic Cover Of The Week series in the past few months, but it is with good reason… because each and every cover has been a marvellously magnificent masterpiece! and this month’s opulent oeuvre is most certainly congruent to it’s compatriots!
Our lead image is rapturously rendered by the talented Mathias Bergara, and is my personal pick of the absolutely awesome cover art available this issue, which was, to be honest, a truly difficult choice considering the standards on display from the competing covers by amazing artists – Nicola Scott, Tula Lotay, and Joshua Middleton. Nicola Scott also provides the interior art for the anthology’s first tale – Prayer – and once again provides the glorious goods with some absolutely superb two tone imagery, Nicola is one of the very finest artists ever to grace Wonder Woman and her art is reason alone to snap up this thrilling tome.
– Gorgeous Interior Artwork From The Fabulous Nicola Scott –
Wonder Woman: Black And Gold #4 Is Available From Your Local Comic-Book Emporium Right Now!
Comic Cover Of The Week: Wonder Woman #771
Welcome fellow fans of fantastic fiction to another cool and captivating cornucopia of comic cover collectables! This week’s impressive image heralds from Wonder Woman #771, and is radiantly rendered by irrepressibly impressive illustrator – Joshua Middleton.
Wonder Woman’s ongoing odyssey through the Sphere of the Gods persists, as she embarks on a quest with the devious Ratatosk, to search for answers. Something appears to be changing the Norse afterlife, and it’s up to the Themysciran Titan to set things right. And in doing so, she must face warriors and beasts of mythological proportions, beginning with Nidhogg! Can our Amazon ambassador survive this surly serpent? Meanwhile in a seemingly simpler time in our heraldic hero’s life, a young Diana continues her journey to uncover the secret behind the scriptures that pertain to hold the hidden history of Themyscira. But is she actually ready to behold the truth, or will it ultimately change her perception of paradise forever?
As our heroic herald continues her perilous passage through the Norse afterlife of Valhalla, she finally encounters the cantankerous god of thunder himself – Thor, who unsurprisingly turns out to be a bit of an arse – a sententious, arrogant and misogynistic drunkard, of whom Diana takes great pleasure in verbally ripping to shreds. Not only does she impressively invalidate the God of Thunder, she also memorably mingles with Odin, climbs the sacred tree of Ygdrassil, and strikes up a bargain with the World Serpent – Naghini.
The backup tale to this illustrious issue continues with another captivating chapter of young Diana, by collective creators, Jordie Bellaire and Paulina Ganucheau, with the most noteworthy part of the tale (for this Wondy fan at least) being the return of Golden Age super-pet – Jumpa the Kanga! (of whom we wrote about recently – right here!) A fun little tale with absolutely gorgeous and energetic artwork by the talented Ganucheau.
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