Amazons Attack #4: Thus Struck the Lightning

Amazons Attack is a unique concept of a series where we get to see the different Amazons get together and face a common problem. It’s a series worth picking up, collecting, and remembering, and maybe even losing sleep over if you’re willing to analyze it and find philosophical implications, such as how things get complicated when the government gets involved. However, given recent criticisms over the past couple issues, book four takes a less thrilling avenue.

The book opens up with Yara Flor looking at a flyer distinguishing between good girls and Amazons. It’s a weird thing, but fits the Amazon persecution theme nicely. It motivates Yara to go to an Amazon safe house in Brazil, only to find the walls graffitied with blood, spelling out the word “Asylum”.

Joined by Cassie and Mary Marvel, the trio stretch their luck through thick and thin trying to escape the world’s forces that have rallied against all Amazons, in which they butt heads with the obscure Count Vertigo.

Meanwhile, at the Garden of the Hesperides (the Orchard of the Golden Apples), Faruka and Hoppy the rabbit see the body of Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and strife hanging on a tree with a spear through the deity’s body. Hoppy then comes to the realization that Eris could not have caused all this, and putting two and two together, they realize that their is a traitor amongst the Amazonian race. Just then, Faruka turns around to see Peacemaker holding Nubia by gunpoint, with an army of his soldiers.

As a quick note, the art for the series maintains its wonderful stability with the colors fitting the characters and their situations, while also depicting the magic that lies within the Amazons.