Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #4 is a chapter in the digital-first series Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace (Volume 1 (Digital)) with a cover date of May, 2020.
Synopsis for "Hope Springs Eternal"
This story is reprinted from Wonder Woman Giant (Volume 2) #4.
The Penguin calls the meeting of the super-villains to order, stating their tactics against the heroes in the past have failed and suggests picking someone other than their usual enemies as their target. He passes them his hat to randomly pick their targets and they agree.
Many years ago, Wonder Woman caught some criminals disguised as the Boston Police with her friend Anna, a superhero known as the Socialite. While having tea with her, Anna states that she'll like to visit Paradise Island and leave Wallace behind. Confused, Diana asks what happened to her boyfriend Gustav and learns he didn't like her being a superhero. She met her waiter Wallace a month ago and was attracted to him and he makes her laugh. Diana states that she'll like to have what she does and Anna responds she is always busy saving the world.
As they are talking, the restaurant's staff requests a photo of the two together and Diana agrees as long as she gets a duplicate of it. Back in modern time, Diana realizes she is late for visiting Anna at the hospital while looking at the photo and being lost in her thoughts. Anna is dying from cancer which Diana learnt from her daughter. The two reminisce about their time together and Diana eventually apologizes for talking so much. But she tells her not to, stating she shouldn't apologize for who she is.
Diana promises to visit when she can, but Anna tells her to bid her final goodbye. Anna later attends her funeral and hears sirens blaring when everyone has left, seeing nuclear bombs falling out of the sky. She is unable to stop them and while resenting it, sees Anna and the other undead come out of the ground. As they grab, her mother arrives and tells her that they must end mankind for harming the planet. Diana while flying out into space upon a pegasi, finds that the entire Earth has been devastated due to the nuclear war.
As the Amazons slaughter humans, she tells Hippolyta it is wrong as they can't kill everyone for what a few people did. She however realizes none of it is true and contrary to reality, demanding whoever is making her hallucinate reveal themselves. Scarecrow is surprised to find that his fear toxin has waned instead of making her go insane. She then tears off his mask in revenge for attacking her after she buried Anna, which leaves him hallucinating about monsters.
After she drops him off at the Arkham Asylum, Scarecrow is restrained for his own good and Diana is told that it's unknown when he will recover. Diana states that she can find out why he attacked her in the way he did when she buried her friend. While leaving, she hopes she can make the world a better place just like Anna.
Appearing in "Hope Springs Eternal"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Socialite (Single appearance) (Dies)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Amazons of Themyscira (As an illusion only)
- Boston Police Department (Flashback only)
- Batgirl (Statue only)
- Batman (Statue only)
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) (Statue only)
- Hippolyta (As an illusion only)
- Pegasi (As an illusion only)
- Nightwing (Statue only)
- Alaine (Mentioned only)
- Gustav (Mentioned only)
- Wallace (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- United States of America
- Boston (Flashback and main story)
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Gotham City
- Boston (Flashback and main story)
- France (Mentioned only)
- Monte Carlo (Mentioned only)
- Paradise Island (Mentioned only)
- San Diego (Mentioned only)
Items:
See Also
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- Cover gallery for the Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace series