Villains unite as a misfit team plans the heist of the century—robbing the Justice League’s outer-space headquarters—in a new series from the Wonder Woman and Black Magick team of Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott!
Get ready for twists and turns galore as frequent collaborators, Eisner Award-winners, and bona fide comic book superstars Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott re-team for a slick, stylish, and villain-forward heist adventure set firmly in DC’s top-selling All In era, starring fan-favorite DC villains!
Cheetah and Cheshire have an ambitious target: robbing the Justice League’s Watchtower headquarters, with a particularly lucrative and powerful item in mind. All that stands between them and pulling off the most daring heist in history are a few tiny complications, like the most sophisticated orbital platform ever constructed, its AI-driven security system, and one other thing…the smartest and most powerful heroes in the DC Universe. Of course, they’ll need to assemble the right crew to pull this off…
Can this team of misfits and oddballs not only do the impossible…but get away with it?
This volume collects Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1-6
Greg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
Very close to perfect. The main heist isn't explained very well but the cast of characters and JL guests keep you delighted, especially Featherweight who I think we'll be seeing more of.
I took this suggestion from a friend and was a bit hesitant because I never heard of them. But I’m really glad I did! It was a great read full of little details and referred to other superheroes. The was impressed with art and how real they looked versus the artist trying to make them perfect. The plot twists at the end were unexpected which I admire. This read made me dive deeper into research about the characters, which I’m sure comic book authors try to aim for with their audiences. Also the page with all the superheroes!! Wow, EPIC!!
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Greg Rucka retoma sus colaboraciones en DC, en Next Level recupera a BATWOMAN. Pero en el panorama ALL IN aún se ha divertido lo suyo con esta miniserie que junta a estas dos supervillanas en una impensable misión común de robar en la nueva Atalaya de la Liga de la Justicia (ILIMITADA).
Cheetah parece estar más afectada que nunca por las exigencias de esa deidad que la convirtió en la criatura híbrida felina. Sorprende entonces que proponga a Jade Nguyen un atraco tan descabellado en la base de operaciones de los héroes más poderosos de la tierra (cada vez más). Esta actualmente trata de seguir operando en un perfil algo más "bajo" teniendo en cuenta que está más a cargo de su hija en común con Roy Harper, Lian. Pero en pura sororidad villanesca se inicia el plan pasando por el conocido ABC de estas historias de reclutar a los miembros, proponer el botín, idear las responsabilidades y actuación y ver cómo todo parece venirse abajo con cada nueva página... En esto hay que admitir que esta miniserie cae en mucho de lo que ya se presupone. Sí que Rucka consigue remar a su favor con cosas como no optar por los "pesos pesados" conocidos de la Galería DCita, en voz de las propias protagonistas, hace falta sangre fresca y miembros que no tengan décadas de enemistades con ellas y predisposición al engaño y la egomanía. El grupo escogido por Cheetah y Chesire destaca por priorizar en la juventud de este universo (obviemos que Klarion ya tiene más siglos que su ropa). Si no fuesen precisamente ellas, se pensaría que esto es para aprovecharse mejor de estos personajes. Pero aunque no se explicite, a lo largo de la historia intuímos que Barbara y Jay realmente quieren velar por estos personajes y afilarles las garras ante un mundo totalmente hostil. Esto último se presenta por completo con el personaje de Featherweight, luchadora social de los colectivos LGTBIQ+ que emplea su super fuerza en contraste total con su apariencia de "neko girl" veinteañera. Ojo, que ella tiene más sorpresas en su herencia que en su identidad de género.
La miniserie como digo no es el colmo de la sorpresa. Sí que Greg Rucka aprovecha bien las líneas argumentales propuestas en diversas cabeceras post ALL IN, por lo que el artefacto que los ATOMS estaban construyendo para el problemo post Absolute Power de los poderes perdidos o intercambiados de los héroes será el gran mcguffin. Luego está el hecho de que Cheetah está aquí tras los eventos del gran arco inicial del Wonder Woman de Tom King. Esto es algo que sí que hace pesar en esta miniserie al personaje, porque apareciendo Diana en la historia, creo que hacía falta dar mejor sensación de continuidad con los hechos narrados por King más que aludir a la consabida enemistad histórica entre los dos personajes (de lo que Greg Rucka participó en su día escribiendo las aventuras de la Amazona).
En esto de las tramas de golpes y atracos, lo de los "planes B" o hasta D es algo a la orden del día. Aquí se lleva por el terreno de qué se roba realmente. Algo que sí que hace que la lectura sorprenda un poco más pero que no ayuda a que el remate de la historia consiga el peso e impacto que se pretendía con este nuevo y luchado estatus quo de Cheetah.
En la parte gráfica, el estilo de Nicola Scott prioriza sobre todo en la apariencia cuasi hiper realista de los personajes con las expresiones faciales y movimientos más anatómicos... Algo que teniendo en cuenta que tenemos a Cheetah como co protagonista llega a molestar bastante... Es cierto que Rucka demanda más la presencia de los personajes en escenas de diálogo y actos descarados más que la acción predominante. Pero esta termina llegando y queda muy a deber.
Cheetah y Chesire: Roban a la Liga de la Justicia recupera tanto a un autor como Greg Rucka como esas historias del lado "criminal" de DC cómics que desde luego se han puesto en peligro como vimos con la última reformulación de los Secret Six. Por supuesto, se acepta y abraza que surjan personajes y narrativas más sintonizadas con el nivel de escucha actual en cuestión femenina, de género y minorias sociales. Justamente los más perseguidos y marginados deben hacer piña. Y aquí hemos disfrutado del gran ejemplo de esto.
Entretenida e intrascendente, más allá de los cambios que el final de la historia pueda suponer en el personaje de Cheetah (me da que Tom King se los pasará por el forro mientras siga escribiendo Wonder Woman, pero...). Lo mejor del tomo es el dibujo de Nicola Scott, clasicote y estéticamente impecable, si bien un pelín rígido para mi gusto, y la reaparición de Klarion, al que hacía mucho tiempo que no veía, y que, siendo una creación del Rey, tiene un potencial impresionante, como demostró Morrison en Seven Soldiers of Victory hace ya bastantes años.
Por lo demás, la historia peca de predecible (el final estaba cantado) y de bastante absurda: ni en sueños los gañanes esos de segunda habrían podido asaltar la Atalaya y engañar a Batman, Question, el Detective Chimpancé, Blue Beetle... el plan tenía un pase, pero para robar a... yo qué sé... al Pingüino como mucho. Que las defensas mágicas de Fate o Zatanna no impidan teletransportarse a los villanos fuera del satélite, es que es simplemente ridículo. Pero en fin, lo dicho: que es una tontuna entretenida. Desde luego, este no es el Rucka de Gotham Central o Wonder Woman. Se habrá oxidado el hombre...
Ocean's Eleven meets DC as Cheetah and Cheshire recruit a team to do exactly what this book says on the tin - rob the Watchtower.
This was just a hell of a lot of fun. It reminded me a lot of the older Secret Six runs (and not just because Nicola Scott did the art there too, to perfect effect), with some twists and turns and double-crosses along the way as Cheshire and Cheetah try to pull off the perfect heist.
The banter is fun, and it makes the characters feel more real, especially since they're villains. Cheetah and Cheshire have nicknames for one another. Klarion's got a crush. Hazard's trying not to bang everyone's heads together. It all feels very human, and given that villains can often become one-note, Rucka sidesteps that wonderfully.
The ultimate conclusion feels a little expected, given how we start off the book. Rucka's not shy about trying to fix a plotline he started way back when he wrote Wonder Woman for Rebirth, and I hope it sticks over in Tom King's Wonder Woman should Cheetah make a reappearance.
I checked this book out largely because I had seen a number of positive reviews for it from critics, but I personally found this to be a pretty shallow and predictable Ocean's Eleven heist book. Nothing about it was particularly surprising, with every twist being highlighted with a neon sign, begging readers to be fooled by some pretty basic tropes. It doesn't help that it takes a decent chunk of the series to actually get to any heisting, which made the early portions of the story drag a bit. The writing is okay but nothing special, and I never found myself inclined towards any particular character. There's also some pretty large leaps in logic in regards to the interworkings of the world which took me out of the experience and made the book come across as illogical (within the rules of its own world). Not something I would recommend, personally, but an interesting concept nonetheless.
Positives first: the art and colours by Nicola Scott and Annette Kwon are absolutely outstanding, it’s visually VERY striking and although it has a modern tinge it retains that classic DC look that the likes of George Perez and Jerry Ordway mastered.
Sadly, I finished reading it wishing it was written by Gail Simone and not Greg Rucka. From reading this and Batwoman recently, it’s clear he’s lost his spark. This should be a fun book but the dialogue is functional and the characters all act like they take everything so literally. It feels like this was written by someone much younger and less experienced than Rucka. Maybe he’s trying to appeal to a younger audience but whatever he’s doing it’s not really working for me.
“Barbara Ann … just what do you think you’re doing?”
I Read this with single issues, so yes, it is released. I’ve been a Greg Rucka fan for about twenty years now, novels and comics. He is at his best is building a protagonist solely by building the characters around her. For me, it all started with his run in Wonder Woman. Diana grew only because Cheetah and characters like Cheshire and Renee were growing around her. Even now, nothing makes these characters sing like each other. Nicola Scott is one of the best in the business and Greg knows it. Can’t wait to see the next tale.
This book almost makes suffering through three years of Tom King's deeply disinteresting Wonder Woman run bearable. Rucka returns to write Cheetah and Diana for the first time since Rebirth, and his voice for these characters is as potent as ever. Even if he does write entirely out of character for the majority of the cast.
I'm always going to be a sucker for Barbara Ann redemption arcs. (Please last this time)
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Basically Cheshire and Cheetah team up to rob the justice league. Sounds silly? It is but it has a lot of heart. It helps they recruit a bunch of D-list villains and new comers that have great chemistry with each other. Eventually resulting in a really fun hiest, and of course things get messy. Basically if like things like Secret Six or Runaways fused together, this one is worth checking out.
Loved it! It's not incredible, and it doesn't do anything particularly new or jaw-dropping. It's basically a simple heist story about a group of C- and D-list villains + Cheetah, trying to steal something incredibly valuable from the Watchtower. It has twists and turns, character development, and that constant thrill of wondering, "Will they succeed?" On top of that, there's a really adorable romance subplot. Such a good book.
Rucka tells a great twisty heist story with a charmingly heartfelt crew of less popular DC baddies, plus an eventual spate of cameos from Justice League big timers and also-rans who are getting robbed. Women-led character-focused storytelling is the big draw here, with superheroic action as a minor supporting act, much like in Rucka’s Lazarus. Scott draws everything with a pretty standard cape comic style, but it’s solid and her character designs are eye-catching.
I have been waiting for DC to close the arc on Cheetah ever since Rebirth. Thank God they brought in Greg Rucka to finish what he started with Doctor Minerva. What a brilliant heist film in the vein of Ocean's Eleven. Such a good story from start to finish. Highly recommended for any fan of Wonder Woman and Cheetah. Very happy with this outcome.
I'm glad to see Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott return to DC, especially if this is the result. Cheshire and Cheetah plan a job to rob the Justice League Watchtower and it's so much fun. This is the kind of thing Rucka excels at. Nicola Scott's art is always spot on. Top notch all around.
I am a big fan of this mini series. Honestly went in with little background on the characters, and that has not changed. Just honestly a fun light hearted villain story and who doesnt love that! Good introduction story for me into more of the DC world.
This is delightful both for the characters and for the fun plan that they set out to execute. But surprisingly, it has some real repercussions for the character, showing what a great writer can do at DC even with a little one-off fun series.
I love Greg Rucka's writing and he shines with this book. Fantastic story, beautiful art. This is one of my favorite types of heist books, planning, gathering the team, executing the plan. Stellar!
I gave this four stars at first but as I mediated on it, I decided it's not THAT good. It's fun, it's light, it's a good time. It's empty calorie entertainment where things don't really happen until the last issue. It's not Gail Simone's Secret Six, but then again, what is? Read it outside in the sun.