Review – Wonder Woman #22: Of Men and Mice
Wonder Woman #22 cover, via DC Comics.
Ray: After the battle with the Sovereign, we haven't gotten to the next big WW arc yet – but Tom King is making the most of this break from bigger storylines. First we got a two-part murder mystery with Batman joining Wonder Woman on Olympus – and now we have a breather issue set right at the beginning of Diana and Steve's courtship. Steve wakes up after an amazing night with Diana to find her missing and a note left for him. While it's awkward, she's able to get across that she didn't run out, she just had a mission. There's a mouse problem at the Capitol. Which shouldn't seem like a Wonder Woman problem – except that these mice are giant dinosaur-shaped beasts, running out of control but still adorable. As Steve arrives to find the creatures running rampant, he tries to aid in the battle – but quickly finds out that Diana is just as concerned with saving the mice as the people. Rude awakening. Via DC Comics.
This is a great little detail about Diana's character as the friend to all life – and it also makes sense, because those mice are just fuzzy little guys turned big. The actual villain is Mouse Man, a new villain for Diana, who is a lot less funny than he sounds. He's a guy in a mouse suit riding a giant mouse, sure, but he's also a vicious misogynist who is storming the Capitol and taking over the rotunda to protest a law that will allow Amazons to immigrate to the US. While he's defeated, his sabotage causes serious damage to the cause and serves the interest of a larger threat – the Sovereign, making his first big strike against Diana in the past. This is a great done-in-one issue, but the ending makes it seem like it's going to play into something much bigger. It's also funny that King has done such a great job with making us root for Diana and Steve after killing him – but that may not be as closed a door as we thought.
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