“Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower” Will Steal Your Heart

“Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower” Will Steal Your Heart

Each Friday, we'll be letting a different DC.com writer share what they'll be reading over the weekend and why you might want to check it out. Here's this week's suggestion for a perfect Weekend Escape!
 

Okay, so here’s the plan. We’ve got 48 hours to fill with a comic book that gives us a clean getaway from your work week. We’ve got the perfect crew. A spotless plot. And art? This art you could hang on a chapel ceiling. All this goes according to plan, and nobody, not even the Justice League, will ever see it coming. It’s time for a Weekend Escape into Justice League: Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower.
 

Following Absolute Power, Amanda Waller’s attempted global takeover involving an Amazo-powered monopolization of the world’s superpowers, the Justice League established a new state of the art satellite facility in space—one with security measures guaranteed by the greatest minds, magic and technology in the known universe. On this “Watchtower,” thanks to the changing, power transferring abilities of Captain Atom, is a device known as the “power bank,” where reserves of the superpowers of every hero on the Justice League are kept, should our heroes ever be depowered again.

Even secured in space by the Justice League, such a target would prove irresistible to anyone ambitious or foolish enough to go for it.

That’s exactly what Cheetah and Cheshire intend to do.
 

Greg Rucka is best known as one of the most dramatic comic writers of the 21st century. Gotham Central, Checkmate, Wonder Woman, Batwoman—all deep character studies laden with heavy global commentary. Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower doesn’t do any of that, which makes the very book itself a sort of heist. The whole story feels like Rucka getting away with something under the nose of his own reputation as a writer of serious topics.

Nicola Scott is another name you should know by now, previously working with Rucka on Black Magick and Wonder Woman: Year One, and bringing to life a prior gang of supervillains you can’t help but root for in Secret Six. If nothing else, you should know her as the artist chiefly responsible for making Nightwing hot. In her approach to the characters who make up the principal cast here, Cheetah and Cheshire may just be her most ambitious work yet.
 

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower isn’t a comic that’s going to change your life or the fate of the DC Universe. This is a comic about a thrilling adventure with many moving parts, brilliant and often hilarious twists, and a pulse-rushing sneakabout. It’s the kind of comic that’s become increasingly rare—where the main purpose is to show the reader a good time. Don’t you like fun? Of course you do. Robbing the Watchtower is where you’ll get away with it.

Justice League: Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Watchtower by Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott and Annette Kwok is available as a softcover graphic novel in bookstores, comic shops, libraries and digital retailers. It can also be read in full on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE.

Alex Jaffe is the author of our monthly "Ask the Question" column and writes about TV, movies, comics and superhero history for DC.com. Follow him on Bluesky at @AlexJaffe and find him in the DC Official Discord server as HubCityQuestion.

NOTE: The views and opinions expressed in this feature are solely those of Alex Jaffe and do not necessarily reflect those of DC or Warner Bros. Discovery, nor should they be read as confirmation or denial of future DC plans.