Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon (Absolute Universe)

Because she was raised in Hell—and when you are living in Hell, all these gifts come in quite handy.

But she was not born in Hell; she was born in paradise. She lived, loved perhaps more than any child in all the world, on the island of Themyscira, sole child of the immortal Amazons. She had been a gift to them from the goddesses for their good works (1,000 years of protecting the world of men, among other things), and barely a year later Diana was taken from the Amazons as punishment for their “bad” works.

But even the gods could not kill a child this special, this loved, this blessed, with ease…