Wonder Woman Warbringer Graphic Novel

Diana is a teenager and during her big chance to prove herself, a boat crashes of the coast of Themyscira and a girl needs to be rescued. This causes a chain reaction on the island that puts everyone and the island in danger. In order to save her family Diana is going to take the girl to Greece to attempt to stop an ancient prophecy.

Wonder Woman Warbringer is part of the DC icons novel series. They are novels written by popular YA authors where different heroes from the DC Universe are written in their younger selves. Batman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and Superman all had stories told about them while they were younger. Wonder Woman was my favorite of this series so to see it get a graphic novel was super exciting.

At first I was worried that the story was too similar to Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, a stranded stranger coming to Themyscira, Wonder Woman defying her mother, traveling with the stranger to our world. Those are where the similarities end. Warbringer is a unique story with an interesting twist. It relies on Greek mythology like all Wonder Woman stories, but everything has a modern twist that makes the story super fun to read. Louise Simonson does an excellent job adapting Leigh Bardugo’s novel. All of my favorite parts of the traditional novel were included in the graphic and I did not remember anything being left out.

The art is stunning. Kit Seaton has beautiful characters. Everything completely draws you into the story. The entire book is colored in shades of blue. When the boat appeared the red flames were so intense against all of the shades of blue. Colorist, Sara Woolley uses this throughout the entire book. While most of the story is just shades of blue, every once in awhile a contrast color is used to accent what is going on. It creates a dramatic effect that I absolutely loved.

Creative Team:
Novel written by Leigh Bardugo
Graphic Novel adapted by Louise Simonson
Illustrated by Kit Seaton
Color by Sara Woolley
Letters by Devon Bennett