While the heroes deal with the chaos kicked up by the warring deities, Black Adam, Captain Marvel's archenemy, recruits the Suicide Squad to help him launch an attack on Circe's fortress. She escapes to Paradise Island, where she kills Wonder Woman, and Olympus appears next to Earth in its own dimension, threatening to destroy all of existence. The heroes try to convince the gods to lay down their arms and join them in facing the true enemy manipulating them all. With Captain Marvel freed from his Roman masters' influence and Wonder Woman brought back to life, Gaia regains her strength, and the War of the Gods is finished.
 

Review

AFTER HIS WORK ON The New Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths and the new Wonder Woman series, I thought George Perez could do no wrong. It's strangely comforting to know that even he can have his off days, and War of the Gods is all the proof you need.

"1991 was the fiftieth anniversary of Wonder Woman's debut, and all we got was this sprawling, incoherent series." - The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide

Once again, the heroes are fighting to save the universe, and Lord, aren't we reminded of it every second panel. The gravity of the situation is never lost on us for a second, since we're constantly reminded that all of Creation hangs in the balance. There are far too few light moments to give us a rest, and every page is packed as solidly as possible with action, explanations, and dialogue.

And what's the point? For all the fist-flying and spell-weaving, it's never made clear what Circe is after. She's just raising hell to achieve ultimate power, and her character never stops for a moment to show us anything other than that. The numerous subplots involving Superman, Pariah (from Crisis), Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and two dozen other heroes only muddy the story even further. There were only four issues in this mini-series, and yet the compactness of each page made me think they could have easily stretched it out to eight. We should count ourselves lucky they didn't.

All in all, this was not one of DC's finest moments, artistically or editorially -- even the chapter numbers for each tie-in are messed up, with chapters misnumbered, misplaced, or missing numbers altogether. And despite Circe's apparent death at the end, she's back and kicking by 1995's Underworld Unleashed. You just can't keep a bad sorceress down, I guess.