Nothing says "Agent of Peace" like a shield to the face

[stubbleupdate]

Part of DC's non-publishing publishing schedule was a set of digital not-really-in-continuity issues like Batman: Gotham Nights, World's Finest: Batwoman and Supergirl, and Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace.
Some of them have been a bit mediocre, and the first, Conner and Palmiotti written issues, were particularly uninspiring, at best.
Subsequent issues have been much higher quality, including #6 where Jeff Parker(you know from X-Men first class, Marvel Adventures Avengers (featuring Giant Girl) and Age of the Sentry (featuring Harrison Oogar, the Caveman of Wall Street)) writing a meeting between Diana and a Valkyrie.

This extract though is from #7 where Associate Editor Andrea Shea and Meghan Hetrick unite to tell the tale of Etta Candy in a cold war spy game gone wrong...

Etta Candy is captured leading a mission for A.R.G.U.S. in Russia! Can Etta sway one of her captors to her side and secure the package or will this be the end of Agent Candy?!
Of Etta*'s two interrogators, Alexei is the Asshole-who-doesn't-respect-women cop and Irina is the Has-a-moment-of-bonding-through-the-difficulties-of-being-a-woman-in-the-military-cop.

In Alexei's absence, Etta told Irina about how tough it was to get to where she is now, but that she had a friend to help her.



I enjoy spreads like this, where characters move around a large physical space on the page.

Hetrick's art feels a bit like Sana Takeda's, but less "pretty".

*Yes, she's white and blonde. It's out of the Rebirth continuity and just a general "let's have some iteration of these characters" self contained continuity. I believe.

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

It amuses me just how committed writers are to keeping Etta Candy as a character around, while simultaneously jettisoning everything but the name.

I mean, I'm not losing sleep over it, but the original Etta was certainly... memorable. "Woo woo!"

[tcampbell1000]

It probably helps that she's one of like three recurring female characters in superhero comics who's canonically supposed to be plus-sized, though how plus-sized she is changes by the year: she's had wilder weight swings than Oprah. Liking this version, who seems to conceal some muscle under her sturdy build but also uses "what men and other women don't look twice at" to her advantage as a spy.

The story's got a couple nice twists after this part, too.