Odyssey of the Amazons #2 Review

Writer: Kevin Grevioux / Artist: Ryan Benjamin /DC Comics We back on that hero’s journey and things are as bad as they ever been. The Amazons are tired weary cold fatigued and about to throw hands with trolls from Norse mythology. Hessia and her squad scrap it out, but with the tide in the enemy’s favor, it is the timely intervention of some Vikings that save these ambassadors from a dirt nap. Hessia and her womans and dem rest up at the Vikings’ town and learn a bit of one another’s lore that is a bit hard to translate, but once that enemy intel comes up they both start speaking the same language. That language is murda music in the key of F sharp by the way. We get a brief huddle about the next steps for the amazons that gives way to more infighting as well as muhfuckas learning what it truly means to be an Amazon.

The Vikings and Amazons working together opens up discussions of patriarchy, gender roles, as well as a bit of rape culture sprinkled in there for good measure. I find it a bit odd that all the Vikings consider a woman’s place to be at home when the Valkyrie of Norse mythology are feared women warriors. I’d think these men would have confused the Amazons for different types of Valkyries for a second, but that’s just my own line of thought. We get wind of the captured Amazons. With them being captured behind enemy lines as well as bound by magic, you’re really hoping for the best of a villainous scheme that you know has no best case scenario. I don’t think it’s a…