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Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

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Saturday morning, I cracked open Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.

It is an incredibly beautiful book. I think there should be a coffee table version of this book. (At its size, it’s probably already close to one; however, there’s no way I’d put my only copy of this on a coffee table xd)

My first thought on opening it was: My God is there a lot going on in the artwork. Seriously. So much. I knew I’d never be able to attempt to read it without flipping through it and just looking at the pretty pictures at least once, so that’s exactly what I did.

I flipped through it, skimming the artwork, until I found the stuff at the back - the bits from each of the artists on how they went about creating the art.

Reading how they did that, flipping back and forth between that section and the finished art and seeing things I most definitely would not have noticed without being guided (or at least, not on a first or even a fifth viewing), thinking of everything that went into all of it…

I fell in love. I’m in love with a book I haven’t even read yet. I know that it’ll be one of those books I can read again and again and again and always find something new in it - whether a detail I’d missed or a connection/reference I hadn’t picked up before - and there’s even more opportunity for me than perhaps usual, as I really don’t know that much about myth. But the writer posted a photo of all her pre-writing reference reading, so those are now all on my TBR list lol.

Today, I went over some of the art again, especially from the first book, and one of my initial feelings is being strengthened: I don’t think I’m going to be able to read this book without assistance (i.e., digitally, using guided view on ComiXology).

It is incredibly complex, made more so by how detailed and overwhelming the artwork is.

I’m still going to try, because I really want to read this book and I don’t want to wait until I can afford to buy it again digitally, but. If it goes, I think it’s going to be very slow going.