Wonder Woman 68 / by MELINDA Schmidbauer

A Comic a Day continues...

Wonder Woman is now a "PRISONER OF A SAVAGE PLANET!"  Poor Diana, with only rags held together by rope to wear. (I like the cover with her still wearing her tiara.  I guess she has to wear it on the cover, to show who she is...inside she only has the grey sweatband of prisonerhood.) 

Our story starts off with Natasha narrating.  It has been three long months of slavery.  Diana is a beacon of hope in the otherwise despairing camp.  She protects the weak, and does more than her share of work.  She and Natasha gradually learn the camp pidgin language, and determine that their captors are the Kreel, an alien race that only has one sex; then every century they change sexes.  This explains why they are only keeping women in the slave camp; they hate women when they are men.  Huh?  That didn't make a lot of sense to me.  And it seems like a lot of work to run a whole planet prison camp just because you hate women.  Maybe it makes sense to the Kreel.  We also learn that there is a Daxamite being held in special captivity on the planet.  How convenient!

So, through a series of serendipitious events, Diana and a small group are able to commandeer a ship, rescue the Daxamite and make their way off planet.  Diana now plans to take down the Kreel empire.  She has four issues to do so!  We'll see how that works out.

There was one thought I had as I was reading this story (related to Diana's tiara, see how I am tying this in...).  Diana's lasso, and presumably the other accoutrements of her Wonder Woman persona like the bracelets, were with her in the original spaceship.  How will she get them back?  Did the Kreel realize their importance and take them?  Or are they still floating around in the first ship?  I want to know!

And...  an ad for DOOMSDAY!  So maybe that's why Superman can't come help Diana now?