Wonder Woman #35 - DC

First of all, I think that the teaming up of Diana and Dinah is brilliant. They play off of each other perfectly and they truly are some hot fem-fatales. Now, when you marry that with the phenomenal writing of Gail Simone . . . I kinda' wish this team would go on and on. I absolutely love Gail's sense of humor. She puts just the right amount in her stories. It's not over the top, and it keeps the pace of the story flowing smoothly. Truly, a fantastic job. And then . . on top of all that . . we get the eye-popping art of Aaron Lopresti? What more could you ask for. Of course you know the girls are in Japan trying to retrieve Sarge Steel, so that they can get Dr Psycho to switch their bodies back. Anyways, in-between bouts at Roulette's arena, they're walking around town relaxing and sight-seeing. So they walk into this toy store, and our opening page is this Manga type picture of a Wonder Woman action figure. It's beautiful and funny at the same time. They're marveling at all the various toy portrayals of each other when Dinah says, "If my mother had seen the unapproved variant edition collector's resin kit . . she'd slap my face." And they can't believe how many different Power Girls they have. I'm sorry. It wasn't an important scene . . it was just funny. Anyways, the girls subterfuge goes along swimmingly until Pele, the Goddess of Violence shows up in the ring to fight. She's Kane Milohai's daughter. The one that Zeus stole his heart to give it to Achilles . . his new champion. So she feels that it's because of Diana that she lost her father. And she's pissed. Pele and Diana's spirit go back to the island where she lives . . I believe it's in a different dimension. Anyways, Pele kicks the snot out of her until Diana finally finds the moment to reason with her. On bended knee she says, "I am sorry. My vow to him . . now passes to you. What amends would you have me make?" There's some terrible promise made between them, but . . we don't know what that is. Yet. It should pose an interesting angle for a future story-line. So the girls get Steel . . trapped in Psycho's body, and take him back to have them revert. And in the end, Diana finally gets some time to go see Tom. However . . on the final page, he breaks up with her. What is he . . nuts? She comes back beaten and battered . . offers to shower with him to clean up . . and he breaks up with her? Ok! Apparently whatever happened during Escape has warped his perceptions . . or his manhood! The guys nuts! We have got to find out what his deal is. This book is fantastic. As you can tell . . I love everything about it. But now I have to wait 4 weeks. Bummer!