Collecting Wonder Woman #206-217 and The Flash #219.

In Wonder Woman #206 written by Grek Ruck and illustrated by Drew Johnson, the gorgon Medusa has been brought back from the dead and sets out to kill Wonder Woman. In Wonder Woman #207, the gorgons approach Veronica Cale to help them in their vendetta against Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman has to deal with Doctor Psycho causing trouble in New York. In Wonder Woman #208, tensions between the United States and Themyscira are starting to mount, so Wonder Woman heads to Washington, D.C. to try to prevent war. However, an uninvited guest has different plans. In Wonder Woman #209, Medusa launches an attack on the Themysciran embassy and somebody close to Wonder Woman will pay the price. The story concludes in Wonder Woman #210 as Wonder Woman faces off against Medusa with the whole world watching. Wonder Woman's solution to the fight will have serious repercussions.

This story line is all about Wonder Woman fighting Medusa. How could I not enjoy it? The gorgon sisters Stheno and Euryale employ Circe to bring Medusa back to life for revenge against Wonder Woman. Circe is always happy to be included in a plan against Wonder Woman, so of course she agrees to help. There is also a sub-plot about the goddesses of Olympus plotting against Zeus to punish him for his roving eye. That will come to a head in the next story arc. Also, I really love Medusa's sister Stheno. She acts like a sulky teen and is a refreshing bit of comic relief in an otherwise serious story.

In Wonder Woman #211 by Rucka and Sean Phillips, Wonder Woman tries to adjust to the fact that she is blind and the embassy's staff mourn the loss the suffered at the hands of Medusa. In Wonder Woman #212 by Rucka and James Raiz, Wonder Woman tests herself against the Justice League to see if she is still fit to be one of them. In Wonder Woman #213, it is war on Olympus between Zeus and Athena and Wonder Woman is caught in the middle.

Wonder Woman might be blind now, but she can still handle herself against the Justice League. Everybody was holding back except Batman. The test was all his idea any way, so well done Bruce for being such a good friend. The non-Batman writers make him out to be such a dick sometimes. It's either that or the Batman writers making him out to be an unstoppable badass who is always prepared for everything. There's no happy ground between the two. As for the sub-plot about Athena plotting against Zeus, I can understand why she is doing it. Zeus is a dirty old lech and maybe it's time that somebody else ruled the gods.

Cheetah arrives in Keystone City in The Flash #219 written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Justiniano. She is searching for the one man who can make her faster: Zoom, the reverse-Flash. Where Cheetah goes, Wonder Woman can't be far behind. The story continues in Wonder Woman #214 by Rucka and Johnson, as the still blind Wonder Woman and the Flash have to deal with Cheetah's new super-speed and Zoom's determination to make them better by killing all those they care about.

I first got into DC comics after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, so I never knew Barry Allen. As a result, that meant Wally West was my Flash and Hunter Zolomon is my Reverse-Flash. It's a pity that nowadays DC seems determined to forget that Wally ever existed. At least we can still read these comics though. I love it when different villains team-up against their respective heroes, like all the time Batman villains teamed-up with Superman villains. Now we have Cheetah teaming-up with Zoom to bring the heroes mooorrre trrragedyyy, as Zoom would say.

In Wonder Woman #215 by Rucka and Rags Morales, the goddess Athena tasks Wonder Woman with a quest to retrieve something believed lost to the Olympian gods forever. Joined by Wonder Girl and Ferdinand the Minotaur, Wonder Woman must face the dangers of the Underworld. In Wonder Woman #216, Wonder Woman and her allies battle against the monsters of Tartarus, but the question is whether the gods are on their side or against them. The story concludes in Wonder Woman #217, as Wonder Woman nears the end of the quest. What will Wonder Woman demand of her service?

In my review of the second volume of George Perez's Wonder Woman I said that I love the fact that Perez brought Wonder Woman closer to her mythological roots. Here it looks like Greg Rucka is doing the same. First it was the fight with Medusa, now Wonder Woman is going on a quest to the Underworld. I'm not going to tell you what or who she has been tasked to retrieve, you will have to read this trade for yourselves. I also enjoyed the fact that Ferdinand the Minotaur joined the quest. Most of the time he is content to work as the chef in the Themysciran embassy. Now that I think about it, we never actually find out how there came to be a Minotaur working at the Themysciran embassy. It sounds like a missed opportunity to me. I want to find out how Wonder Woman and Ferdinand first met, dammit!

Another enjoyable collection of Wonder Woman stories. Of course, it would be more sensible of me if I read the first volume of Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman, but I have never been one to take the sensible option. I will definitely be going back to read the first volume though. Let's not forget the Wonder Woman issues that Rucka did for the DC Universe Rebirth relaunch. Those were great and I will definitely be reviewing them at some point in the future.

My rating: 3.5 stars.