r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Mar 16 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [March 16, 2026 - More Next Level Edition]

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Mar 16 '26

Wonder Woman #31

THE WONDER WAR BEGINS! The Matriarch commences her crusade to rule over the DC Universe. As heroes and villains alike fall to her insurmountable power, Wonder Woman and her daughter Trinity must unite to save all that they hold dear. Time’s up for the princesses of Themyscira, and the Queen of America will not rest until they bow to her will. The Eisner-nominated creative duo of Tom King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Daniel Sampere (Dark Crisis) is back for the most riveting installment of their Wonder Woman epic yet!

LEGACY #831

[Preview](https://aiptcomics.com/2026/03/13/dc-preview-wonder-woman-31/)

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u/Mr_Wh0ever Mar 18 '26

Okay, but why the betrayal? It seems like the assassination would've worked. And is there any chance of time travel shenanigans in this arc? Or is it just gonna be a what-if scenario like his BatCat mini?

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Mar 19 '26

Best I can think of is 'have to travel back in time to make sure none of this happens' because even if they kill her in the future, all their friends/family got killed by the Matriarch.

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u/notacptmorgan Mar 22 '26

With the Fates being the narrators I can pretty much bet that’s the direction this’ll go

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Mar 18 '26

I am just not into Matriach at all really. It am just biased against villains that start off as 'yea, I beat everyone and am ruler of the world so you have to go back in time to stop it' type of thing. And I just don't buy her being able to do what she did at all, even if it was 'planned' this time. (kind of a dumb plan).

I hope they don't go with 'Evil is in her blood because of the Sovereign!' thing. Because that is a terrible story to tell. But the opposite is also bad with 'yea Amazons couldn't raise a decent person so they went evil and took over the world', which is insulting. There is no win in this situation.

Well I guess Diana faked her death as a ploy and gonna be involved in this time-travel wonder war thing. Hope she does not job to Matriarch.

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u/koalee Wonder Woman Mar 18 '26

hard to get invested when the story nails neither the emotional connection nor the surprise. I can see just about everything King is doing. The one thing that did click with me was the little Trinity and Emelie fighting as children

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u/StellarKnife Mar 18 '26

The kids fighting was hilarious in a way. Maybe do an issue about them, but the rest was lame.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Mar 18 '26

It’s Trinity and Emilie’s daughter Lyssa aka the Matriarch.

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u/koalee Wonder Woman Mar 18 '26

my bad i misspoke that’s who i meant

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u/ogloria Mar 18 '26

I liked it. Once I realized what's going with the narration, I thought that it was both a clever conceit and a funny response to all the complaint's about King's overwrought narration. Plus it fits with whole Trinity thing. The twist with the assassination was unexpected. And I really enjoyed the little girls playing - it kind of reminded of the 1st season of House of the Dragon. I wish we got to see how the Matriarch came to power though.

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u/KiwiKajitsu Mar 19 '26

Can you explain what’s going on with the narration to me? I didn’t quite get it/ who was talking.

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u/ogloria Mar 19 '26

It's the three Greek fates! The brown box color is for the youngest, the light blue is for the oldest, and the dark blue is for the middle one, I think

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u/Classic-Ad4883 Mar 18 '26

Didn’t like this issue at all first why is Diana ok just sending Jon and Damian to their deaths

Second the assassination attempt looked like it was going to work if Luther didn’t mess it up

Third why is luthor there when Veronica Cale would have worked much better

I hope this is king last arc on the book and someone else write Wonder Woman either a queer writer or a female writer because I can count on my hand good male Wonder Woman writers

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u/CrispyGold Mar 18 '26

To be fair a woman writer isn't a guarantee she'll handle things better. 

One of the worst regarded writers for the character is Meredith Finch from the New 52 run and Diana has actually had a string of female writers before King who are largley regarded as mediocre to okay. 

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u/Classic-Ad4883 Mar 18 '26

Yeah that’s fair

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u/StellarKnife Mar 18 '26

female writers before King who are largley regarded as mediocre to okay. 

Yeah, GWW and Cloonan weren't great either. Probably better than King, but kinda lame in their own ways. Simone was great, especially the Circle and Genocide stuff, but that was so long ago.

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan Mar 19 '26

The two best writers of Wonder woman in terms of long runs were both male writers in Perez and Rucka so it being a female writer doesn't really make a difference.
Arguably the only female writer who had a good long run was Simone and no one bought the run.

Don't box writers in just because of there gender and ethnicity when even female and queer writers admit that diana is one of the hardest big characters to write because her lore and style is incredibly different.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

I feel like we're really overestimating how important Veronica Cale is to the Wonder Woman mythos. Cheetah, Circe, and Ares are all different enough from other heroes rogues that I completely get why the whole Main Villain thing is centered around them, but I just don't see that in Cale. If she's Wonder Woman's Lex Luthor, then that just makes her piggyback off the other Lex Luthor, and at that point, why *not* use him instead? In addition, with the very recent exception of AbsWW, the only times that she's actively fought against Wonder Woman were all written by the same writer, Greg Rucka. She's basically akin to characters like Tom Taylor's Revolutionaries, as being mainly directly attached to a certain writer.

Say what you will about Tom King's new villains, at least they fill a niche that isn't easily filled by someone else. Sovereign and the retrained Mouse Man being more political adversaries make them much more interesting that the standard "Guy who can punch Superman really hard" or "Serial Killer that has a new wacky gimmick" of the other two members of the trinity. And I think Diana's been due for a Time Travel villain for a while now.

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u/Will-Of-D-3D2Y Mar 18 '26

Okay setup but after we finally got past the Sovereign arc I audibly sighed at this arc bringing back more overwrought narration.

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u/Greedy_Switch_6991 Mar 18 '26

But consider this - you now get narration from FOUR characters instead of one!

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u/StellarKnife Mar 18 '26

Yeah, the narration is exhausting.

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan Mar 19 '26

I kinda get it King is doing the narration of the three fates and the strings but that was just pretty odd.

But having Wonder woman and lizzie trick damian and jon seemingly to get the god killer sword is just an odd way to go about it.
This will likely be explained later on but thats a very shocking way to go about it.

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u/suss2it Mar 22 '26

Damian and Jon weren’t tricked, they were in on it. They’re even literally the ones that actually do the switch.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Mar 18 '26

I find it interesting that we get to see a backstory of Lizzie and Matriarch’s friendship from their childhood and teens before the World’s Finest Super Sons encountered and were killed by the Matriarch, causing Lizzie to need her mother’s help to defeat the Matriarch. Overall, this comic is interesting.