Just as Wonder Woman is starting to deal with her blindness, the Cheetah returns and teams with the Reverse-Flash! Then Athena sends Wonder Woman on a journey of unimagined peril! Collecting WONDER WOMAN Vol. 2 #214–217 and THE FLASH #219! Grade 7 Up–The Cheetah is just one of the many obstacles that a now-blind Wonder Woman must face before descending into the depths of Hades to rescue Hermes. In the first part, which is entertaining but standard superhero fare, she teams up with the Flash to battle the evil and power-hungry villains Cheetah and Zoom. The quality of the storytelling and artwork improve dramatically in the second part. Here Rucka's pacing and the art mesh to create a well-plotted story that provides insight into the psychology of Wonder Woman's heroism and her role as ambassador for the Amazons. At the request of Athena, Wonder Woman travels to the underworld accompanied by a Minotaur and her protégée, Wonder Girl. Readers soon learn that Princess Diana and company are merely pawns in Athena's grand scheme to usurp Hades and gain dominion over Mt. Olympus. The culminating events bring closure to a story that is both satisfying and heartfelt. A good choice for middle and high school collections, this book contains minor elements of violence. –Philip Charles Crawford, Essex High School, Essex Junction, VT Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In this long, well-plotted story arc, Wonder Woman, aka Diana, is faced with challenges on every level. The Amazon island Themyscira, no longer floating above the ocean, now rests off the coast of the Carolinas, which brings up all sorts of U.S. security issues that Diana, as official Amazonian ambassador, must deal with. Unknown to her, the deadly gorgon Medousa and her evil sisters have been released and want revenge against the goddess Athena and her champion, Wonder Woman. At the same time, Athena plots a bloodless coup against Zeus for the rule of Mount Olympus. Medousa challenges Diana to a fight to the death, and in order to beat the gorgon's deadly gaze, Diana blinds herself. While Wonder Woman triumphs, the cost--the life of her friends' young son--is almost too much for her to bear. Then, Athena herself calls upon the still-blind Wonder Woman to help her cement her power on Olympus. Rucka serves up an exhilarating adventure while still allowing us to see the classic superheroine's softer side. His Wonder Woman still packs a punch but also comes across as very human. A traditional comic-book style reigns in the artwork. Tina Coleman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. Johns is the author of the  New York Times  best-selling graphic novels Aquaman: The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, Justice League: Origin, Superman: Brainiac and Batman: Earth One which hit number one on the bestseller list. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow, and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken , for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and resides in Los Angeles, California. Greg Rucka is a novelist whose work on Batman brought fresh attention to the character and to the inhabitants of Gotham City. He won the Eisner Award for Best Story with Gotham Central 's "Half a Life." His other DC credits include Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman , the Batwoman adventures in Detective Comics, and Superman: World of New Krypton . He was one of the co-writers of DC's weekly series 52 . Rags Morales started his DC career working on comics based on TSR's role-playing games such as  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons . His first super-hero series for DC Comics was the Black Condor . Since then, he has worked on most of DC's major heroes including a long run on JSA and Hawkman , which served as warm-ups to the best-selling Identity Crisis written by  New York Times  # 1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer. Since then, he has illustrated the adventures of Wonder Woman and Batman: Confidential .