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Cheetara Vol. 1
Before the founding of Third Earth, before the destruction of Thundera, Cheetara was a young woman with secrets. Now, for the first time, these secrets will be revealed. Wrapped in a stifling life of Thunderian nobility, she seeks to find her place in an unsure universe, and to understand why she's experiencing alarming visions of both the ancient past and the near future...
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Published March 19, 2025
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June 5, 2025
EN Cheetara is by far the most noble and charismatic of the Thundercats, so starting these spin-offs with her was a brilliant choice.
This book takes us back to Thundera, before the cataclysm. We get to explore her relationships with the other Thundercats, the King, and Jaga during that era. It offers a glimpse into their everyday lives and their ongoing conflicts with the Mutants from Plun-Darr. We also finally learn the cause of the cataclysm.
Overall, it’s a solid read. The art may not be outstanding, but it’s perfectly serviceable, and the writing is consistently strong.
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PT A Cheetara é, de longe, a mais nobre e carismática dos Thundercats, por isso começar estes spin-offs com ela foi uma escolha brilhante.
Este livro leva-nos de volta a Thundera, antes do cataclismo. Podemos explorar as suas relações com os outros Thundercats, com o Rei e com Jaga nessa época. Dá-nos um vislumbre da vida quotidiana deles e dos conflitos constantes com os Mutantes de Plun-Darr. Ficamos também, finalmente, a saber qual foi a causa do cataclismo.
No geral, é uma leitura sólida. A arte pode não ser deslumbrante, mas cumpre bem a sua função, e a escrita é consistentemente forte.
This book takes us back to Thundera, before the cataclysm. We get to explore her relationships with the other Thundercats, the King, and Jaga during that era. It offers a glimpse into their everyday lives and their ongoing conflicts with the Mutants from Plun-Darr. We also finally learn the cause of the cataclysm.
Overall, it’s a solid read. The art may not be outstanding, but it’s perfectly serviceable, and the writing is consistently strong.
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PT A Cheetara é, de longe, a mais nobre e carismática dos Thundercats, por isso começar estes spin-offs com ela foi uma escolha brilhante.
Este livro leva-nos de volta a Thundera, antes do cataclismo. Podemos explorar as suas relações com os outros Thundercats, com o Rei e com Jaga nessa época. Dá-nos um vislumbre da vida quotidiana deles e dos conflitos constantes com os Mutantes de Plun-Darr. Ficamos também, finalmente, a saber qual foi a causa do cataclismo.
No geral, é uma leitura sólida. A arte pode não ser deslumbrante, mas cumpre bem a sua função, e a escrita é consistentemente forte.
May 13, 2025
Decent art but mostly felt like table-setting for future Thundercats installments. Worth reading as an introductory course/nostalgia trip.
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November 9, 2025
I am not sure if I was disappointed with this book or it was just not what I expected. I was expecting to learn more about Cheetara than I did. This book was more about the last days of Thundera.
Thundera is at peace. However, Cheetara is uneasy. Fans of the original series will already know about her other gift not just speed. Charged with looking after the young Lion O, she and the other Thunder Cats will do whatever it takes to handle any threats to Thundera, but will even they be prepared for what is to come?
The artwork is good, and the story is okay, but I was expecting something a bit more. I don't think I learned anything new about Cheetara from this book. The book finishes with a thumbnail variant cover gallery.
Thundera is at peace. However, Cheetara is uneasy. Fans of the original series will already know about her other gift not just speed. Charged with looking after the young Lion O, she and the other Thunder Cats will do whatever it takes to handle any threats to Thundera, but will even they be prepared for what is to come?
The artwork is good, and the story is okay, but I was expecting something a bit more. I don't think I learned anything new about Cheetara from this book. The book finishes with a thumbnail variant cover gallery.
January 15, 2025
A pretty good character study on Cheetara. All ages, so good for a young girl, but the build up isn't paid off in the last chapter which is a cheat. The art is more palettable than the main Thunder cats title.
June 19, 2025
Inconsistent pacing, a few perilously unclear plot points, and an array of wild continuity errors wreck an otherwise clever narrative ingress to a new and compelling version of one of Thundera's mightiest heroes.
CHEETARA is a book that one fears falls into the mountainous morass of comics that had all of the right elements for a meaningful story but somehow never quite pulled it off. At the onset, the book crafts clean and original expectations for a world-weary character: Cheetara is the slightly older, warrior matron to the ruling clan of Thundera. She is respected for her humility, her intuition, and her prowess regarding how she respects the gods, advocates for her people, and protects her young charge.
When Cheetara partners with Tygra and Panthro to put down giant spiders terrorizing local miners, readers glimpse first-hand how integral the woman's strength, skill, and intelligence are to maintaining stability among the hopeful. And when tucking in a juvenile Lion-O, following another exciting bedtime story, and the cub dozes off accidentally calling her "mother," readers' hearts will break, presuming the woman's role as educator and protector is perhaps too well-delineated for one so dedicated as she.
The dynamics surrounding Cheetara are fascinating, but they do not comprise the whole of the book. CHEETARA throws in a few more elements, too: precognition (of an attack on Thundera), an unbalanced romantic partnership (with an ally), and more. Readers will quickly learn these elements do not necessarily or authentically fit together. Cheetara's precognition is vague, which is good for tension and drama, but bad for the story's actual plotting (i.e., the characters can't take action if they don't have anything specific to prepare for). And the presumption of an end to Thundera arrives in many forms, but nobody seems to question the awkward, apparent causal relationship between one character's actions (Jaga) and the closing chapter's consequences.
Much can be gleaned from a female-focused tale of heroism, patience, and faith. The book's first two chapters position Cheetara in a remarkable light: equally burdened with worry and obligation. But the comic lurches away from this matrilineal resolve and more toward a mess of action scenes that fit genre expectations: An attack on Thundera comes from shadowy figures with zero stated motives. To wit, the ensuing battle is written with such haphazard and uncoordinated oversight that one imagines any attack/event would have resulted in chaos. But this crude fabrication aside, the world should be ready for a queenly Cheetara readily equipped to both slay her foes and raise the future Lord of her people.
Discourse on narrative trajectory is but one fit for discomfort; quality of storytelling is another. This book takes great (and tragic) liberty with narrative continuity. For example, consider the material most heavily prized from Thundera's mines. Is it "thundranium," "thundrillium," or "thundrilium"? The comic spells it different in every issue, which one can only attribute to its ultimate irrelevance to the story itself. If the publishing team couldn't invest enough in their product to spell a supposedly critical natural resource correctly, then perhaps readers shouldn't care either.
The most glaring error concerns Claudus, Lion-O's father, whom early in the book is clearly labeled as blind (Jaga: "Being weakened and blinded, Claudius could no longer care for Lion-O and the sacred artifacts."). Yes, Claudus's name is misspelled here as well. But to a broader point, this "tired father," evidently made blind through eons of warfare and hard work is later shown to be not so blind at all. At one point, he casually accepts and makes use of a digital touchpad. And during a fight between two prepared armies, the story later sees the man in hand-to-hand combat, which, while not impossible for a blind fellow, should certainly prove more difficult than the comic makes it out to be. For the uninitiated, the erasure of disability is bad.
CHEETARA starts strong, with an exciting and organic view of how an established character might truly write her own way into history. But the book and its characters wither under the stress of anonymous enemies with anonymous motives, action scenes that rip readers from scene to scene without closure, and exhaustively poor attention to narrative detail and continuity.
CHEETARA is a book that one fears falls into the mountainous morass of comics that had all of the right elements for a meaningful story but somehow never quite pulled it off. At the onset, the book crafts clean and original expectations for a world-weary character: Cheetara is the slightly older, warrior matron to the ruling clan of Thundera. She is respected for her humility, her intuition, and her prowess regarding how she respects the gods, advocates for her people, and protects her young charge.
When Cheetara partners with Tygra and Panthro to put down giant spiders terrorizing local miners, readers glimpse first-hand how integral the woman's strength, skill, and intelligence are to maintaining stability among the hopeful. And when tucking in a juvenile Lion-O, following another exciting bedtime story, and the cub dozes off accidentally calling her "mother," readers' hearts will break, presuming the woman's role as educator and protector is perhaps too well-delineated for one so dedicated as she.
The dynamics surrounding Cheetara are fascinating, but they do not comprise the whole of the book. CHEETARA throws in a few more elements, too: precognition (of an attack on Thundera), an unbalanced romantic partnership (with an ally), and more. Readers will quickly learn these elements do not necessarily or authentically fit together. Cheetara's precognition is vague, which is good for tension and drama, but bad for the story's actual plotting (i.e., the characters can't take action if they don't have anything specific to prepare for). And the presumption of an end to Thundera arrives in many forms, but nobody seems to question the awkward, apparent causal relationship between one character's actions (Jaga) and the closing chapter's consequences.
Much can be gleaned from a female-focused tale of heroism, patience, and faith. The book's first two chapters position Cheetara in a remarkable light: equally burdened with worry and obligation. But the comic lurches away from this matrilineal resolve and more toward a mess of action scenes that fit genre expectations: An attack on Thundera comes from shadowy figures with zero stated motives. To wit, the ensuing battle is written with such haphazard and uncoordinated oversight that one imagines any attack/event would have resulted in chaos. But this crude fabrication aside, the world should be ready for a queenly Cheetara readily equipped to both slay her foes and raise the future Lord of her people.
Discourse on narrative trajectory is but one fit for discomfort; quality of storytelling is another. This book takes great (and tragic) liberty with narrative continuity. For example, consider the material most heavily prized from Thundera's mines. Is it "thundranium," "thundrillium," or "thundrilium"? The comic spells it different in every issue, which one can only attribute to its ultimate irrelevance to the story itself. If the publishing team couldn't invest enough in their product to spell a supposedly critical natural resource correctly, then perhaps readers shouldn't care either.
The most glaring error concerns Claudus, Lion-O's father, whom early in the book is clearly labeled as blind (Jaga: "Being weakened and blinded, Claudius could no longer care for Lion-O and the sacred artifacts."). Yes, Claudus's name is misspelled here as well. But to a broader point, this "tired father," evidently made blind through eons of warfare and hard work is later shown to be not so blind at all. At one point, he casually accepts and makes use of a digital touchpad. And during a fight between two prepared armies, the story later sees the man in hand-to-hand combat, which, while not impossible for a blind fellow, should certainly prove more difficult than the comic makes it out to be. For the uninitiated, the erasure of disability is bad.
CHEETARA starts strong, with an exciting and organic view of how an established character might truly write her own way into history. But the book and its characters wither under the stress of anonymous enemies with anonymous motives, action scenes that rip readers from scene to scene without closure, and exhaustively poor attention to narrative detail and continuity.
May 8, 2025
I was hoping for a more fleshed out story that explained why the Thunder cats left Thunder a than this mini series provided. The reason I gave this a three rating is the art and Cheetara is presented as the strong and compassionate warrior I remember from the cartoon and not either a grim dark heroine or a one dimensional sexualized person like a lot of rebooted female characters are.
December 18, 2024
Era para una historia de 2 números, no 5.
April 18, 2025
A nothing little story about Cheetara getting premonitions of Thundera being destroyed when Liono was still a kid. There is literally almost nothing to this story. Really disappointing.
April 23, 2025
Mostly boring and unnecessary, but a quick read and Soo Lee's art is outstanding. It gets three stars for the art alone. The main Thundercats series is really good, so let's get back to that.
June 23, 2025
Soo Lee brings Cheetah to life in every way
October 29, 2025
2.5 rounded up to 3. Basically Cheetara’s life on Thundera and we meet the other Thundercats. This is more of a buildup of what’s to come.
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