Future State is the run of DC titles after Dark Nights: Death Metal, they disappear fast on the comic shelves!, and one of the standouts is Future State: Wonder Woman! The first issue was released on January 5th, check for availability! Future State has spun out of Dark Nights: Death Metal #7, the last issue of the event series, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo with other artists. It has the destruction of worlds faced by Wonder Woman in Lasso of Truth armor and the Batman Who Laughs, two entities who struggle through time and space. She destroys him in the death sun at the end of the universe. Then, we see the Golden Age Wonder Woman meet with Wonder Woman and they head to the future to ascend. Then, on The Totality station above the Moon, heroes and villains working together see visions of Future State including Yara Flor, the Brazilian Wonder Woman in a world without Diana.
The story and art of Future State: Wonder Woman by Joelle Jones. She co-wrote and provided art for her creation, Lady Killer, for Dark Horse, Jones drew art for the limited series, Supergirl: Being Super, and provided the one of the covers for Wonder Woman #750. The cover of Future State: Wonder Woman #1 by Jones has Yara Flor in her golden armor pieces, red and grey suit, running with a golden boldeadoras, a lasso with two bolas, with a jungle background. There is also an Adam Hughes variant cover for Wonder Woman 1984. In the Amazon rainforest, Yara moves through leaves, sunlight is patterned on her face. Excellent work by colorist Jordie Bellaire. We don’t get an origin story for Yara Flor, there really isn’t need for one yet. Some dragon-like creature roars at her, but is no match for Wonder Woman’s sword. There is mention of Zeus and Tupa. Then, there is a two page splash of Wonder Woman standing over the creature. Still, the creature rises again like a hydra! Yara calls out for Jerry while she fights it.
There is a pegasus, Jerry, quietly drinking from a river while the battle goes on. Yara gives a whistle for it. Jerry finally appears and picks up the falling Wonder Woman. She dives down with Jerry to pull her sword free. Out of the jungle is a warthog with what looks like a forest spirit, Caipora, a young girl riding it. Her name, “inhabitant of the forest”, comes from Brazilian myth. Caipora looks like a charming anime character, very fun and a trickster for Yara! Wonder Woman says she is going to take the horn of the hydra to force Hades to return her sister. Caipora shows her power to stop her from poaching. Yara takes out her bola lasso and wraps Caipora with it. The spirit says she will take Yara to the underworld. Caipora leads Yara to the Underworld, what looks like a modern train station, with a creature like Cerebrus asleep in chains. She tries to get past a boarding agent, a tiny, black demon figure.
Yara tries to get past the turnstile, but is stopped until she tears it apart! They reach the lower levels which is occupied by the dead right out of Beetlejuice (1988)! Yara and Caipora reach a dark, misty dock. A skeletal boatman, Charon?, appears, but there is a queue already forming for the boat ride. Caiporta pays him with coins, but of course Yara is not prepared. She has to go back in the queue, grumbling, there is fun in this version of Wonder Woman. Yara is behind a massive sumo wrestler and tries to reach for his coin. Caipora has her warthog bite the sumo and this of course turns into a brawl with Yara letting out a Xena-like cry. Caipora realizes that this won’t turn out good. The mythology, Brazilian and Greek, is fun, the George Perez run had touches of Greek myth and Greg Rucka brought in mythical characters. I hope Yara Flor enters whatever DC universe there is after Future State. Yara's adventures continue in Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman and Future State: Justice League. Future State: Wonder Woman features some fine art by Jones, fun world building (though we don’t get Brazilian landmarks that would help us identify the nation), with fun and anime!
Four Boleadoras out of Five!
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