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Book Title Wonder Woman Issue Number: 213 (542) Published: April 2005 Cover Artists: J.G. Jones Writer: Greg Rucka Pencils: James Raiz Inker: Ray Snyder Letterer: Todd Klein Colourist: Richard and Tanya Horie Editor: Ivan Cohen Story Title: Counting Coup - Part Two   Main Characters (in order of appearance): Wonder Woman (Diana) Pegasus Athena Briareos Zeus Demeter Aphrodite Hera Ares Circe Veronica Cale Senator David Hale Etta Candy Leslie Anderson Ferdinand Zoom (Zoloman Hunter) Cheetah (Barbara Minerva) Hades Poseidon

Comments:

A side story regarding Zoom and The Cheetah sets up a forthcoming two part crossover with "The Flash". A return to form on the cover art front by J.G. Jones, although it kinda gives away how Diana defeats Briareos in the story itself! Many readers of course assumed that Diana's request of Athena was to restore her own eyesight, but some had already guessed that the selfless Amazon Princess was actually wanting the Goddess to turn Garibaldi's son back from stone.

Plot Summary:

Diana battles the huge and mighty Briareos and it seems Athena's champion faces certain death. But when Zeus is given the chance to show Diana mercy he declines and orders her to be slain as an example. Athena tells him he will regret the decision and gives Diana a pre arranged signal. Diana then uses Medousa's head to turn the monster into stone, thus winning the challenge!
Zeus is banished and Athena takes the throne Olympus. She offers Diana a reward and the Amazing Amazon asks for just one thing - but the Goddess says that what she asks for is the one thing Athena cannot give her - at least for now. Ominously, she also tells Diana that the Amazon may regret not asking for something else instead, because there is a storm gathering on the horizon that will test Wonder Woman to her limits.