Last issue, in November of 2021!, Wonder Woman has returned from the Afterworlds to normal life in Washington, D.C. She is catching up with Etta Candy while Dr. Edgar Cizko has been promoting his new book! Wonder Woman meets with Deadman in New England and on her flight back she sees the Glass Wonder Women! The cover by Terry Dodson has Wonder Woman falling backwards as a number of glass duplicates pursue her in the air! “Through A Glass Darkly Part Two”, continues with the creative team of artist Marcio Takara and writers, Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan. Diana looks out of the airplane’s window over the Atlantic Ocean, startling Boston Brand, Deadman in shades, and hurries off with her bag in her hand. Boston stares out the window.
Deadman shouts a warning to the other passengers. The crazy eyed Glass Wonder Women approach the aircraft and tear off the door. They enter the cabin with the air rushing in to teh screams of passengers. Boston calmly sits a passenger in his seat. A Glass Wonder Woman says, “I am Wonder Woman” to him. Boston’s fist shatters the duplicate’s head. A passenger holds onto a chair rest to stop herself from being pulled out into the sky! The Glass Wonder Women overwhelm Boston as the pink glass particles fly around. He is struck down as the Glass Wonder Women surround the jet. The loop of the Lasso of Truth flies out in close-up. The real Wonder Woman, in an almost full panel size, sends out the lasso while shattering a duplicate with her elbow!
Boston takes the distraction to break another Glass Wonder Woman with his fist. Wonder Woman takes hold of the passenger and breaks another Glass Wonder Woman. The others turn to her. She uses the Lasso of Truth as a whip destroying more of imposter Wonder Women. Boston wonders about their nature, but Wonder Woman says they are just “cheap clones” as she flies out. She heads back destroying the Glass Wonder Women and lifts the airplane! Later, we get an Iceland reporter who mentions the emergency landing of Flight 623, the mystery of what happened and that none of the passengers remember what happened. They got a little Men in Black (1997) neuralizer treatment from Deadman! Diana discusses this with Boston later in a hotel room and suspects Cizko.
The duo was headed to Sweden to uncover the mystery of Diana’s sword, Gram, that recieved from Siegfried in the Afterworlds. Boston joins Wonder Woman’s adventure. She says their location won’t be a danger with the Glass Wonder Women. It must be some tracking device on Diana, his book?, she also brings up that her mother wants her to return to Themyscira. Plus, she hadn’t called Steve Trevor. Before she goes to sleep, Diana tells Boston that they are going to Uppsala, a city near Stockholm, Sweden. The next morning in Sweden, they are enjoying a nice breakfast ouside of a cafe, and Diana relates a story about Siegfried to Boston. She gets a voice mail from Steve Trevor and goes to answer him. In the early morning in Washington, D.C., Steve gets her call. He groggily gets her call, but only picks up that Diana is in Sweden before the call ends.
Next, we get the hidden broadcast of Cizko joking to a studio audience on camera. He mentions about the “other planes of existence”, like the Afterworlds he entered? Cizko contacts the spirit of Matthias Knutzen, it all seems like a fake televangelist. He channels another spirit, concentrates, and the camera is distorted. This pulls back from the television to Etta Candy who is wakened by a telephone call. Steve Trevor has called her to watch the program about the Glass Wonder Women. Etta takes on the investigation into their origin. At Vallsgärde Gravfält, Sweden, a snowy landscape which was the site of ancient Swedish kings, impressive research Conrad and Cloonan! Boston finds that he is freezing, Wonder Woman has a coat, scarf, and a white, traditional Swedish headwear. He mentions that he is literally freezing since he possessed a corpse! Wonder Woman gives him her coat. Boston has detected Siegfried’s “vibrations” which is strong because he had unfinished business.
They find a rune stone, almost a full page illustration, and then Diana returns his sword to the runestone. Some epic lighting from the sky by colorist Tamra Bonvillain! The Glass Wonder Women leads to the introduction of a new villain! “What Lies Beneath Part 2” by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge continues the story of the Bana-Mighdall Amazons before the current Trial of the Amazons! Queen Faruka discusses with Queen Atalanta, sister to Hippolyta, the Amazons of Themysicra. They are immortal while the Bana-Mighdall can die. This is before The Becoming. At the current time, a manticore, a massive, winged lion, tears into the Amazons. It is about to kill two Amazons when a giant axe flies and severs the beast’s paw! It is the warrior, Artemis, who leads the attack! Overlooking the battle, Queen Atalanta knows the origin of the manticore. It was from Themysicra! Wonder Woman #782 has some international fun and action with Diana taking on a new villain!
Four Lassos of Truth out of Five!
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