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Absolute Wonder Woman #8 Debuts A True Classic DC Villain (Spoilers)

Absolute Wonder Woman #8 debuts a true classic DC Comics villain of decades past, in a very different fashion (WonderSpoilers)

Veronica Cale, pharmaceutical tycoon and criminal mastermind, was created by Greg Rucka and Drew Johnson for the Wonder Woman comic in 2003. She believes that Wonder Woman is undeserving as a paragon of feminism, and was created as a Lex Luthor for Wonder Woman. Working with other Wonder Woman villains, she was allied with Colonel Marina Maru, the post-Rebirth Doctor Poison, and has often led the Godwatch organisation. The Absolute version first appeared in Absolute Wonder Woman #3, but Absolute Wonder Woman #8 is bringing in an new Absolute debut.

Doctor Poison, a sadistic bioterrorist, first appeared in 1942's Sensation Comics #2, Wonder Woman's second appearance, by Wonder Woman creators William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter, and is Wonder Woman's first costumed supervillain.

Initially meant to look like a man, the first Doctor Poison in a hooded green surgical gown and black domino mask was revealed as Princess Maru, a Japanese royal who disguised herself, and later joined supervillain team, Villainy Inc. Doctor Poison was an Axis scientist and mastermind who headed both the fictional Nazi Poison Division and the chemical research branch of the Japanese army. Later versions introduced the post-Zero Hour granddaughter Maru from 1999, the New 52 Russian scientist Dr. Maru in 2016, and the DC Rebirth Colonel Marina Maru with her elite team of Poison mercenaries in 2017. Elena Anaya played her in the 2017 Wonder Woman movie.

And now we are getting an Absolute version in Absolute Wonder Woman #8, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, and published this Wednesday by DC Comics.

Back to the green, and the helmet, though it is considerably larger than before. Because this is a very different Doctor Poison, and though she is working with Director Cale, their relationship is very different indeed. And a lot of that is down to who, or what Doctor Poison is.

No longer using poison gases to kill, she is a poison gas, transformed into a sentient gaseous being, needing the use of a containment suit, like Johann Kraus in Hellboy, or Dean Boswell in New X-Men. And she is doubly contained, in suit and in facility. And Director Cale is going to keep it that way…

Absolute Wonder Woman #8, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, is published this Wednesday by DC Comics.

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #8
(W) Kelly Thompson (A/CA) Hayden Sherman
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