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Wonder Woman #17

By Hervé St-Louis
February 23, 2017 - 07:29

The threat against Wonder Woman and the Amazon continues on Themyscira. Elsewhere, Doctor Minerva has to become Cheetah again in order to save Steve Trevor and Etta Candy. When will Wonder Woman return from her meltdown and save the day?

I suspected that Cheetah would come back and that the careful resolution of her storyline would be unravelled quickly. I didn’t expect it to be this fast. She is a great villain after all and Wonder Woman’s archenemy. Minerva’s transformation is a tragedy and this is what this issue is about. She was only free for a few issues. Here Greg Rucka establishes Cheetah as the main Wonder Woman villain the way the Joke and Lex Luthor with enough emotional pain and mythos to clearly make readers feel for her.



As much as Wonder Woman has been reinvented and redefined here, it would mean nothing if the same did not happen with Cheetah, her classic villain.

I like Liam Sharp’s compositions although his faces annoy me a bit. They are not as inviting to look at and often the female characters all look the same. It is sometimes difficult to tell Wonder Woman apart from the other characters. Everyone seems to be based on a Wonder Woman prototype.

Rating: 9 /10

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