The 48-page issue continues two new stories, the first starring Wonder Woman, the second continuing the introduction of a new character to the Wonder Woman mythos...
MAIN STORY: “The Son of Olympus”
Wonder Woman is in Calvin City, in her non-heroic identity as Diana Prince, to check out the opening of the Greek wing of the Calvin City Historical Society Museum. As she walks into the front doors, she has strange feeling of being in the presence of the gods, and wonders what kind of artifacts the museum's curators have on display. However, the sensation is coming from somewhere else entirely.
A few blocks from the museum, the Sky-father Zeus has appeared in the city to make himself known to his most recent son. But when 19 year old Ivy University undergrad Alexander Kostas encounters a hairy, toga-wearing hobo claiming to be the father he never knew, it doesn’t end well. Incensed that this child of the modern Age of Man wouldn’t listen to him, Zeus vows make him listen. Later that night as he is walking home along the riverfront, Alex thinks he is hallucinating from something he took at that party when he sees none other than Wonder Woman fighting a massive Kraken (as in “RELEASE THE…!”). Diana notices the kid, and yells at him to take cover, but the enormous creature lashes-out at him first, sending him flying into a storefront. As the battle rages on, Zeus appears to the boy lying broken before him asking, “Will you be so quick as to dismiss me now?” Several panels later, as WW is having her ass handed to her by the behemoth, the superheroic figure from the cover of the annual-- “The Olympian”-- leaps out from the destroyed building and turns the tide against the beast. After the battle is over, Wonder Woman searches for any sign of the boy the creature attacked, or the superhuman who flew to her rescue: but neither were to be found.
BACK-UP STORY: "The Talaria"
Having already received the gifts of his father, Zeus (his godly power as well as Greek armor including the Aegis, an enchanted breastplate) and his half-brother Hercules (superhuman strength and endurance), Alex Kostas begins to receive the gifts of the other gods as well. He gets a winning $300 million powerball ticket in the mail (a gift of wealth from his uncle Hades), he goes swimming and realizes he doesn't need to breathe underwater, and a horse pulling a carriage in the park bows to him (Poseidon). Later, he discovers new talents for architecture and engineering (Hephaestus) as well as music and medicine (Apollo).
Unfortunately, the "help" he offers his girlfriend Rebecca with her nursing homework (since he now knows more about medicine than her) over the phone is not well-received. But while Alex is on his way to Rebecca's apartment to apologize, Zeus appears and informs him that two of his gifts—winged sandals and a helm of invisibility-- are not yet in his possession, and that he must defeat trials to attain them—and the time for the first one is now!
A gorgon appears in the center of Rebecca'a apartment complex and begins to attack with her bow, turning the innocent bystanders to stone with her gaze. Alex summons his armor, but is forced to don a ski-mask to hide his identity (since he does not yet have the helmet) and his basketball shoes (since he also doesn't have the sandals. As a demigod, Alex is immune to the gorgon's petrifying stare, but the gorgon's poisonous arrows still pose a challenge. Luckily, when he finally manages to kill the gorgon, the petrified bystanders are returned to life.
Zeus rewards his son with the sandals (granting Alex flight and speed), but Alex says he'd rather forego the gifts and have his father stop sending monsters to kill him. Zeus rebuffs this request, and instead gives his son a temporary helmet (one without special powers), as a ski-mask is "not fit costume for a hero". When Alex asks about when the challenge for the helmet will come, Zeus says he does not know, as he has left that to Hades, who has donated the gift. But he says that challenge is likely to be even more unexpected and dangerous, because "Hades is not so loving an uncle as I am a father."
Meanwhile, in the final panel of the comic, we see a mysterious man removing the heart of the gorgon…
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