Wonder Woman: Warbringer

BOOK

Warbringer

Written by:

Leigh Bardugo

Published:

August 29, 2017

Length:

368 pages

ISBN:

0399549730

Wonder Woman: Warbringer is a 2017 novel featuring Wonder Woman. The book was published in the DC Icons series which also features entries starring Batman, Superman, and Catwoman.

The cover is by digital artist Jacey, with interior back cover art by Afua Richardson.

In July 2018, DC Comics announced that the novel would be adapted as a graphic novel published under the DC Ink label.^[1]

Official description[]

“She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . .
Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave act, Diana may have doomed the world.
Alia just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn't know she is being hunted. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
Together, Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.”

Promotion[]

As promotion for the novel, whose only illustrations appear on the cover and interior back cover, Jen Bartel was commissioned to create visuals of the five main characters. The illustrations were used for a giveaway on getunderlined.com,^[2] and the author's social media accounts.