Wonder Woman #250

 Throughout the publication history of Diana one of the recurring plot devices has been the battle over who gets to wear the Wonder Woman costume and represents the Amazons in the world.   Coincidentally these often occur around landmark issues (250 here, in vol. 2 around issue 100).   In this issue Orana has challenged Diana for the title of Wonder Woman.   This is to be settled as always by tournament.   Eventually the tournament comes down to Diana and Orana.   Throughout the four day tournament, Orana has proven herself as quite capable but she is lacking in the compassion needed to be Wonder Woman.   Diana proves this over and over again by saving those that Orana is endangering but in the end, despite her heroics actions Diana has lost the tournament and must hand over the costume and role.   I was generally pleased with the tournament.   They are usually pretty predictable any time that there is a challenger they usually win, if only for a short period.   This can be compared to a lesser form of superhero death.   You know they will be back, it is just a matter of when (in this case it only lasted one issue).   In this case the costume change was relatively short lived.   The creative forces behind the comic wanted to do something notable for issue 250 and they have in a way.   Its too bad though that it was not something more substantial.