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"He's just a hero, in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save..." (Liz Phair)

Wonder Woman #2 (by Allan Heinberg on words and Rachel & Terry Dodson on art) is out later today, so I'm rereading the first issue. Random highlights...

DONNA: You all right?

STEVE: Well, I'm not feeling very manly or heroic right now.

DONNA: So, next time you'll rescue me.

STEVE: I love that you think we're going to live long enough for there to be a next time.

The new status quo being that Princess Diana's little sister Donna, who used to be Wonder Girl, is currently Wonder Woman; she and Diana's best friend Steve have been attacked by Diana's rogue's gallery: the Cheetah, Giganta, and Doctor Psycho.

Ah.

Giganta: "When Dr. Doris Zeul discovered she was terminally ill, she transferred her consciousness into the body of a size-shifting circus strong-woman and became known as Giganta." Because there's no part of that concept that isn't all weird and lovely. Circus strong-women! And her outfit's collar is lined with leopard print...

The Cheetah in her current incarnation is Doctor Barbara Minerva, as Diana seemed to face off against a lot of women with evil doctorates. She's an archaeologist who bargained away her soul to become an evil Cheetah-woman with immortality. Currently she's mostly human-looking now and strikes me as similar to the Silver Age Catwoman with her cheetahs-instead-of-henchmen routine.

Doctor Psycho (again with the evil doctorates!) is a creepy telepathic little person with a domination/submission kick going on and a desperate need to humiliate Wonder Woman. But she beats him every time.

Keep in mind that these are Diana's "Patriarch's World" foes, as half the time she's off fighting Ares, the God of War. And her arch-nemesis will always be the man-into-pig-changing sorceress Circe.

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