Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - ESSENTIAL

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by Kit Seaton, 192 pages.  GRAPHIC NOVEL DC Comics, 2020.  $17.  9780399549731

Content: Language: PG-13 (28 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13. 

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – ESSENTIAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

Diana feels like she doesn’t fit in among the Amazon women on her island of Themyscira, but while trying to prove herself to them, she breaks the biggest rule of the island and brings a mortal onto the island.  Diana saves Alia Keralis from a shipwreck and then figures out that Alia is a Warbringer.  In an attempt to save the world from war and violence, Diana learns that she has to take Alia to wash in a spring in Greece.  But Diana’s attempts are thwarted on all sides, so Alia and Diana must learn what their real strengths are.  

I LOVED the original book Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Bardugo, but this graphic novel is just as entertaining.  It was fun to revisit the story and the graphics where perfect.  Alia and Diana are lovable, and their friends are just as much fun.  This will be appreciated by all graphic novel readers. I can’t wait to read more graphic novels from this series. The content includes battle scenes, and someone gives the girls the middle finger.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson