First off I'd like to thank Netgalley as well as the publishers for giving me an advanced copy of this comic to read and review! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.

After seeing the not so positive reactions on Goodreads to this, I wasn't going in with all that high expectations. And even with that, I was still let down.

Let me start off by complimenting the art. For the most part, it was quite gorgeous, and I loved the colors used. Even here though, there were moments when faces looked weird, and I feel like the artist could have done a lot more with some of the clothes. Generally though, I did quite like the style.

The story was what really let me down. It felt very weak and shallow, and while Mera is supposed to be a warrior first and wife/lover second, she still seems to quickly be defined by love and romance later on, which was unfortunate. However, the book still ended with

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the pair separating, but not after a long ballad of not wanting to ever leave each other's side... oof.

It was also insane insta-love, and I get that this comic is coming from source material that already existed, and it wasn't an authorial choice, I feel like more depth and intensity could have been given to the characters before this great love. Instead, the instant love was only amplified in speed by the format and length of the comic it appears in, and overall I just wasn't into it at all.

I'll be giving the rest of the DC Ink line a chance for sure, as I love the characters it seems to be focusing on, but I'm not impressed so far.