Wonder Girl #1

Champion Part I: The Labors of Cassandra

Script J. Torres
Pencils Sanford Greene
Inks Nathan Massengill
Letters Pat Brosseau
Colors Guy Major
Edits Nachie Castro

Our cover by Greene shows Wonder Girl fighting a hydra, which actually does happen in this issue. Greene's style is very angular and cartoony, but it's kind of a nice change of pace every once in a while. I do appreciate how Cassie still looks sexy without feeling over-sexualized. Know what I mean?

Our story begins with Hercules — of all people — giving us a quick recap of Wonder Girl's origin story. Sadly, we don't get to see Impulse with the Young Justice gang, but we do see Arrowette, Secret and Empress. The only glimpse we get of Bart in this issue is as Kid Flash with the Teen Titans.

The rest of the story shows us that Wonder Girl has essentially become a public enemy after the Amazons Attack event. This has forced her to assume a new secret identity as a girl with glasses named Drusilla living in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Cassie's mom is also in hiding over in Greece. Feeling abandoned by the Greek gods, Diana and Donna, Cassie has taken it upon herself to clean up all the monsters left behind after Amazons Attack. This includes her going after some hydra eggs that have attracted a large gathering of police, animal rights activists and Robin.

When Robin sees Wonder Girl, he immediately wants to talk about the kiss they recently shared, but Cassie says the eggs are the priority now. Robin suggests taking the eggs to Superman's Fortress of Solitude, but Wonder Girl insists upon destroying them. However, one of the eggs hatches while they're arguing, but Wonder Girl easily defeats the beast by individually knocking out each of its four heads. Cassie then angrily assumes Robin was going to tell her that he didn't mean anything when he kissed her — that it was a "heat of the moment" thing — and she flies away, leaving Robin to realize why Batman stays single.

The issue ends with Wonder Girl fighting some more monsters and being approached by Hercules. Obviously, Bart has nothing to do with this issue, but I do like checking in on his former teammates from time to time. And I am happy to see Wonder Girl finally get her own series ... well, sort of. This is only a six-issue miniseries, which technically is better than nothing, but still! Superboy got 100 issues. Impulse had 90. Robin's series lasted more than 180 issues before finally being cancelled. Wonder Girl at least deserved a solid 50-issue run of her own.

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Next time, we'll continue the battle with the latest incarnation of the Titans of Tomorrow in Teen Titans #51.