Wonder Woman

After a cosmic paradox apparently shunted their world into nothingness, Greek gods and Amazons have become refugees on Earth. Faced with his own existential truth, the war god Ares seeks to redefine himself by inciting the titular just war, only to get straightened out both physically and philosophically by the ever-empathic Wonder Woman. More compelling still is the second arc contained herein: a media entrepreneur with the goddess of vengeance under her thumb looks to settle a grudge against "the unregulated, extrajudicial killing machines that call themselves costumed heroes." The tag-team art is handsome throughout, but it also hits its high mark in the second arc, with Merino's precision lines and classically heroic figures highlighted by expressive faces that convey potent rage, ferocity, and fortitude. Powering it all is Wilson's penchant for constructing an exciting story built on a foundation of meaningful and penetrating questions that touch on the political as well as the emotional and delineating rich characters in simple, elegant moments.