DC fans first met Yara Flor earlier this year as a full-fledged hero of tomorrow in DC Future State titles including Future State: Wonder Woman, Future State: Justice League, and Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman. But every journey starts somewhere—and that’s exactly where the new Wonder Girl series, debuting this week and written and illustrated by Yara’s creator Joëlle Jones, picks up.
DC Nation chatted with Jones about Wonder Girl’s journey from Boise to Brazil, what makes the younger Yara different from the one we saw in Future State, new and old villains, how this
series connects to what’s currently unfolding in Wonder Woman, and, of course, Jerry the
Pegasus.
I really liked this issue but it often felt like I crashlanded into something that I am not exactly sure what is happening just yet. The writing was excellent and totally pulled me into Yara’s story and the art is magnificent!
I adored this issue! Its looking like the Bana will get some focus. Yara has an interesting personality. Hera is coming off as quite menacing. And Nubia looks gorgeous in that art style!
Yes, I loved Yara’s Future State debut! She’s badass.
As for her Infinite Frontier debut, I loved it! Wonder Girl was my most anticipated new title from the launch, and while it’s only one issue in, I’m very excited to see where Yara’s adventures take us!
You’d think that, but I was disappointed to find out Yara’s CW show wasn’t developed as a Pilot. Though as I think about it, could be they’re saving her for HBOMax, or even better, WW3!
I can see it happening at a later point, especially once her ongoing has a decent # of issues to base episodes on/around.
Personally, the outside comics media I want to see Yara in the most is animation. She’d be a natural major character for an animated Wonder Woman series, alongside Donna, Cass and the rest.
To be honest I can’t say I mind the Wonder Girl show not not being immediately picked up to much. When the writer of the comic revealed that even the smallest creative decision she wanted to make had to be approved by the tv show people before she could use it in the comic, I started to realize it would be better if Yara had a year under her belt first to at least develop as a character without such heavy oversight.
Yara-flor was the best character introduced from Future State. And I do mean introduced. The characters in Future state like Johnathan Kent and Andy were established in the universe already. Jo Mullein came from the young animals universe. Jace Fox is just a retooling of Tim Fox from the 70s. And Jess Chambers is new, but their from a different universe and the name is a play on Jesse Chambers, so not exactly original.
Yara-flor arrived fresh on the scene and blew all those people out the water. It’s disappointing DC Comics won’t allow Yara to be a second Wonder-woman. Same goes for Nubia to a degree, but more so Yara because even she knows she deserves better than that.
I’m glad she’s showing up consistently in Wonder-woman titles, but Yara-flor needs a solo again. Let’s have her go back to home to Ohio. I would love to see what her life was before and for her to have more adventures over there. Here’s hoping for more Yara-flor in the future.
I confess, when it comes to the Yara elements, im mostly just wanting more of the Esquecida. We have some break out characters from that group with Potira and Jacy, but we never really got the opportunity to see them explored as Yara is really more of an outsider in that group. Barely anything on them or their city of Akahim.
