Wonder Girl #1 – Review

By: JT Krul (writer), Adriana Melo (artist), Mariah Benes (inker)

The Story: Cassie visits her mother, who disapproves of her being a superhero. The conference gets attacked. Wonder Girl leaps into action.

What’s Good: Melo and Benes did a good job on the art. Cassie looks like a perfect princess at all times (an action princess), if mildly cartoony. The poses are suitably dynamic and express the story and the mood. The layouts were competent, but really didn’t push the envelope of innovation, serving instead a lot of stacked rectangles. A few exceptions showed why Melo could have taken more artistic risks, like the earthquake, where layout really contributed to the visualizing of the story, and page 12, where the panel edges were all converging diagonals and added dynamism.