DC Comics & DC Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 Spoilers & Review: Nubia Returns To Zero Fanfare?!

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DC Comics and DC Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 Spoilers and Review follows.

Nubia Returns Returns To Zero Fanfare?!

Considering the hype of Nubia’s return to DC Comics, including the prominent profile in DC Future State house ads,  plus the fanfare of Tim Fox as the Next Batman…

…it does seem odd to me that Nubia (1) isn’t on the cover to DC Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 and (2) she’s not the feature or lead of the issue, but in a back-up tale.

Nubia debuted in 1973 and appeared in Wonder Woman #204, #205 and #206 before her final appearance in 1974’s Supergirl #9.

Nubia did appear on the 1970’s variant cover of last year’s milestone Wonder Woman #750 as well.

She also appeared in 2016’s Wonder Woman: Earth One Volume 1 and…

…in 2018’s Wonder Woman: Earth One Volume 2.

It is likely she will return in March 2021’s Wonder Woman Earth One Volume 3.

In addition, the writer of this DC Future State story is also the author of a February 2021 debuting Young Adult graphic novel titled Nubia: Real One.

Anyhow onto DC Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1’s Nubia back-up story.

The issue’s back-up opens with Nubia descending upon Darkseid’s daughter Grail who…

…involved in a heist of an artifact that…

…when Nubia touches it she is flooded with images of an indeterminant time.

Grail escapes and…

…Nubia visits her aunt Nancy who…

…appears to be an underworld figure or some such…

…who has answers about a hidden past for Nubia and…

…her people.

The tale ends with Nubia being sucked into some kind of vortex to somewhere or somewhen else!

The story concludes in DC Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #2 in stores on February 16 / 17, 2021…

…again with Nubia on none of the covers.

Although, it looks Nubia may well be part of the post DC Future State initiative called Infinite Frontier…

…Infinite Frontier #0 and Wonder Woman #770.

The Pulse:

A compelling story with Nubia in Future State, but art was so-so. I like how Nubia has been given depth and complexity as a character; she’s not a perfect Amazon princess or goddess, but very relatable, very human in many ways. 7 out of 10.

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