The first two issues in this collection are a team-up between Wonder Woman and Black Canary as they travel to Japan to put an end to a metahuman fighting ring. These issues are light in tone and hinges on the friendship built between the two characters due to their time spent together on the Justice League. It's full of action and punchy dialogue. Nevertheless, Simone's treatment of Canary seems a little off. Given the fact that Simone spent years writing the character in Birds of Prey makes this all the more puzzling. The issue at hand is simply that she's trying too hard to make Canary the funny man to Wonder Woman's straight man.
The rest of the collection is comprised of the four-part Warkiller. Wonder Woman returns to Themyscira and is imprisoned by the combined forces of Achilles' Olympians and Alcyone's Circle. Unhappy about her confinement, Artemis leads a faction of Amazons against her captors in order to free her ally and restore balance to their island. Warkiller acts as a satisfying conclusion to the loose trilogy of stories beginning with The Circle. Much like the rest of her run, this arc is introspective and seeping with bloody action. The difference here is that she ceases to shake things up and instead returns things to the status quo. This, of course, isn't a bad thing. She re-establishes the Amazon's hold on Themyscira, solidifies Diana's right to be Wonder Woman, and gets rid of that pesky Nemesis as the Amazing Amazon's love interest.
As far as unofficial trilogies go, Simone's Warkiller is a fair conclusion to the events of The Circle and Rise of the Olympian. While it lacks surprising plot twists and provides way too much "girl talk," it does a remarkable job in tying up all the loose ends that had been left with the preceding story arcs.
Rating: B
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