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Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: The Just War Written by G. Willow Wilson, Cover art by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson. Art by Cary Nord, Xermanico, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Jesus Merino I haven’t read Wonder Woman comics for a number of years, so when this came up on Netgalley, I decided to check it out. Especially since it was written by G. Willow Wilson, the writer of Ms. Marvel in Marvel comics. This Ms. Marvel is not Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers, but a Muslim Pakistani American teenager, Kamala Khan. This book collects Wonder Woman issues #58-64, Vol. 1 The Just War. The individual issues were published Nov 2018-Feb 2019. Wonder Woman discovers that Ares is no longer imprisoned in Themyscira when she goes to (yet again) rescue Steve Trevor. Other Gods such as Aphrodite and mythical creatures from Olympus also show up on Earth but they do not remember how they got there or what happened to Olympus. Wonder Woman questions what happened to Themyscira and of her mother, Hippolyta? Of course, Ares causes mayhem, even when he thinks he is doing good. There is a bit of comic relief when the mythical creatures end up in Washington DC. I thought the story was good but not great. It didn’t feel fresh or new. I may had been expecting more from Willow Wilson. Overall, I thought the art was excellent, especially Terry and Rachel Dodson’s cover art. The one exception was Cary Nord’s art, which I felt was uneven and at times simplistic. It varied so much that I wondered if they changed artists mid-issue. ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.