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In short, she is the kind of character readers love to hate.
(Contrast that with the far more popular DC baddie Catwoman, who has always been Selina Kyle.)
Barbaras creator is writer and artist George Perez (assisted by the late writer and editor Len Wein).
Its hard to overstate Perezs importance to the legacy of Wonder Woman.
For Wonder Woman, this meant a new mythology.
It was an assigned book.
No one wanted to do Wonder Woman.
Perez leaned heavily on Wonder Womans Greek origins, taking inspiration from Walt Simonsons recent revamp ofThorover at Marvel.
(Sound familiar?)
He lives in her residence, receives guests, is obsequious, the works.
But her colonialist drives are rarely interrogated with real thought.
Whos there to research them?
Not particularly pleased with this, Barbara betrayed Julianna, joining forces with Wonder Woman to defeat her.
That is, until writer Gail Simone took the helm in 2007.
This was the first time Cheetah would pose an intellectual threat to her foe.
