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Wonder Woman Has No Gratitude for Cheetah in Wonder Woman #83 [Preview]

Published Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:00:42 -0600

DC Comics has released a preview for tomorrow's Wonder Woman #83, in which The Cheetah goes out of her way to do something nice for Wonder Woman, for her own good. Unfortunately, Wonder Woman is extremely ungrateful for The Cheetah's assistance and says mean things to her while beating her up.

What's your problem, Diana?!

In an interview on DC Comics' website, writer Steve Orlando details what fans can expect from his run on the book:

Lately, it seems like depending on who's been writing Wonder Woman, the comic has taken on different tones. Willow has really brought back Diana's mythology and dug into some of the more fantasy elements, while Greg Rucka's run was largely modern-day action and espionage. What sort of areas will you be drawing from during your time on the book?

It all interests me. Wonder Woman Annual #3 was really sort of a tone-setting book. I posted a few months ago that I was reading a lot of '60s-era Wonder Woman, like the Mike Sekowsky and Gil Kane runs. I loved, not necessarily the no-powers aspect, but the thrill aspect of their Wonder Woman. I loved the sort of political superhero thriller that the book used to be. There were moments of that in Rucka's run. I think that Willow's done such an incredible job with the mythological content. Wonder Woman's a mythical character, but I want Willow's work to stand. I don't want to step on that.

It's going to be a superhero thriller book. I hate to say a "political" thriller because it's not like we're addressing the things that are going on in Washington, but Wonder Woman is an inherently radical character. Anyone who puts love above anything else, in the present context or in any context, is always going to be radical and subversive. So, in that respect, it's still going to be a political thriller, which it definitely was under Rucka. But we're also here to push Diana as a character and show her existing in the DC Universe as that strident, inspirational character that she always has been.

At the same time, so much has happened during Willow's run. We're going to unpack what happened with Steve Trevor and Leviathan. We're going to unpack the fallout of "Year of the Villain" with the Cheetah, which is coming to a head. And as you saw in the annual, we brought back Warmaster, a Wonder Woman villain who hasn't appeared in the comic since 2011, but at the same time, she's a fixture. She's appeared in Brave and the Bold, she's appeared in the '70s TV series, she's appeared in the Golden Age. She's going to come for Diana in a way that's going to unify a lot of the past twenty years of Wonder Woman comics in a new and exciting way.

Is she going to be the main villain in your storyline?

For about the first ten issues. But I really love these runs like Gail Simone's where the story's ongoing. Yes, the annual will set the tone for the first ten issues, but then we'll be seeding the next ten. The characters that appear and things that are set up in Willow's run are going to come back to haunt Diana, as well. It all matters. I think that's what's wonderful about an ongoing book.

Read the full interview here and check out the preview below.

WONDER WOMAN #83
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(W) Steve Orlando (A) Jesus Merino (CA) Viktor Kalvachev
On the cusp of a new beginning, Wonder Woman must forge a fast alliance with a wild Amazon warrior from her past to halt The Cheetah's malicious massacre! But long brewing tension turns Diana's sister against her, giving the Cheetah her opening to place yet another God to the blade of her God Killer Sword. The kicker? The Cheetah thinks she's helping Wonder Woman!
In Shops: Dec 18, 2019
SRP: $3.99