Wonder Woman 66 / by MELINDA Schmidbauer

Day 4!  

Today I read the original printing of the story from the recent Wonder Woman Retroactive, 1990's.  (By the way, the links I use to comics all point to specific issue on comixology.com.   Mark uses that site to set up his pull-list with our LCS, Packrat Comics.)  I wanted to know what happened to Wonder Woman after she is marooned in space with the cosmonaut Natasha Terranova -- although with a name like Terranova, one almost suspects that we will see her marooned on another planet, trying to start an Earth colony, no?  

This story is near the start of the William Messner-Loebs run on Wonder Woman.  I only know that because the letter columns writers refer to the change of creative team.  Diana is apparently more confident and sure of herself in the "man's world."  I won't comment on this, since I didn't read the previous issues, but Diana sure seems confident, although this book starts with a scene I don't think we'd see in a Wonder Woman comic today...Diana getting her hair done!

So Diana has to go into space to save this cosmonaut, who is running out of air.  Why can't Superman, or one of the other space-capable superheroes go?  (I thought Diana was space-capable.  Not this one, I guess.)  Because they are all off somewhere else, conveniently.  While trying to get back into the atmosphere, a mysterious explosion sends them off into the universe.  They don't know where they are or how they got there.  What will happen?  Tune in for the next issue...

I did like this story.  I love when writers can make the normal, everyday interactions of superheroes seem normal and everyday!  The hairdresser scene was fun.  Watching Diana and Natasha bond over magic was fun.  There was some superhero stuff, and the golden lasso got some play, but Diana was basically a regular person interacting with other regular people.  She just happens to be superstrong and can fly.

I'll move to Wonder Woman 67 tomorrow.  I am sure Diana and Natasha won't be stranded in the spaceship very long!