For the most part, Odyssey reads like an Elseworlds story. Instead of growing up on Paradise Island, Diana and a handful of Amazons flee when she was a child, escaping from an overwhelming invasion. So her mission becomes one of vengeance instead of peace. The resulting Diana feels younger, more unsettled, and more reckless by far than the one we knew. You know what? I'm cool with this. Comic books should get a nice shake up every ten or twenty years or so, and Diana was due. And this setup was fantastic, intriguing, and most of all, different.But the execution... Here some issues popped up. Mostly the fact that the storyline as written felt disjointed, almost like a much shorter storyline had been stretched out, and the writer had to add a bunch of meaningless episodes to compensate. And the transition between one episode to the next is usually shaky. In the end, most of these things add up to something, and the individual scenes are usually well-written. It just felt like the overarching plot hadn't been nailed down enough before it went to press.
But probably the most talked about aspect of this version of Diana will be her costume. I love it, almost unconditionally. I love that she's wearing pants, I love that she finally has something holding her top up, and I love that she has the jacket option. Now, there's some kind of overcomplicated business on her arms, under her jacket, that I could do without, and there's a lot of lines on her top that I think are meant to indicate boning (this is in the New 52 costume, as well) that don't look terribly helpful. But overall, it does look a lot more like something that a woman would choose to wreak some havoc in. Shame it didn't last longer.