Bring Me a Higher Love
Written By:
Mark Andreyko
Art By:
Tom Derenick, Carrie Strachan
Lettered By:
Wes Abbott
Digital Price: $0.99
On Sale Date: August 11, 2016
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE BOTTOM**
So I saw Suicide
Squad this week. My feelings about it are that one of the best things I saw
was the trailer for the Wonder Woman
movie on a theater screen. Gods, that looks so awesome. When she catches that
mortar on her shield and then later is doing super slow-motion ninja
swordplay…why am I even mooning about it? Just take a look, save me some
typing.
And now that you’ve seen that inspiring tidbit, read
my review of Wonder Woman ’77 Chapter 22!
Which probably won’t be inspiring, but…just read on, read on.
Explain
It!
Just one week ago, we saw that Harlow Gault’s
disembodied, telekinetic brain had latched onto Steve Trevor’s head. Well,
that’s still the case this week, and now he’s snatched Diana up in his
telekinetic power bands or whatever they are and slammed her through a cement
wall. A bunch of government agents in ski masks rush to her aid and open fire
on Trevor-Gault, who just puts up a mental shield that stops the bullets in
their tracks! Trevor-Gault is really feeling himself, but then elicits a
cough—that’s when Trevor-Gault decides that he doesn’t want this weak body with
a minor cold, he wants to control…Wonder Woman!
Wonder Woman is, of course, very flattered and agrees
to take on the brain beret in exchange for letting Steve go. Gault happily (I
guess, I mean it’s tough to tell what a disembodied brain is feeling just by
looks) leaps from Steve’s to Diana’s head, and begins to take control—but of
course Wonder Woman fights back! I mean really Gault, you could have figured
something like this would happen. Wonder Woman fights against Gault’s influence
and then the two meet—on the mental plane! Wow! Now this comic has become like Dreamscape or something! Gault is sort
of a gross Visible Man model and Diana looks like regular Wonder Woman, until
Gault comes at her with an ecto-sword and then she grows sick-looking gladiator
armor. While Wonder Woman appears to be in some kind of trance to the outside
world, on a higher plane she is having the battle of her life! Or really, she
is kicking Gault’s ass.
The two of them battle for a while, Gault even
sprouting wings and clutching Wonder Woman at one point, but then she says son,
I am Wonder Woman and you are a lame-ass brain with an eye stalk, so don’t even
try to play me. She sprouts crazy luminous wings herself, and clobbers the crap
out of Gault until he’s an inert lump of gray goop that Diana can pull off her
head. Gault is put into a, uh, special prison jar and hauled away by the
authorities, locked in the super-secret prison that houses Wonder Woman’s other
enemies. There, in his jar and inside a fairly squalid-looking cell, Gault
announces his intentions for revenge!
Man, what a good time this comic is! They took a
fairly ridiculous premise from the original television series and just leaned
into it, taking the concept to ever more ludicrous places, until finally there
is a battle on a surreal plane of thought. It’s like all the stuff the
television show wouldn’t have the money to do, it’s in this comic book. And
Wonder Woman behaves like a real hero, every time, and also kicks maximum ass,
every time. People that read my Secret
Six reviews (I know you’re out there somewhere) know I like Tom Derenick’s
work, and it’s great here as well. There are some close up shots that look
exactly like Lynda Carter, it’s eerie. I love this comic book, you shouldn’t be
able to have this much fun for $1.98!
Bits and
Pieces:
9/10
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