This heist could have been an email.

Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott’s Justice League: Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Watchtower is awesome, what feels like the kind of world-building — or at least, world-using — that the DC Universe could benefit from. Familiar locales, familiar characters, some new characters with familiar ties — that much reminds of Rucka’s excellent Checkmate, and Scott’s presence evokes Gail Simone’s Secret Six, and that’s about the best pedigree you could ask for in a comic.

Much like Ram V’s The New Gods that I just finished, if Rucka and Scott follow this up soon with Cheshire & Cheetah Rob the Fortress of Solitude,¹ any mild discontent I have at the end here will be forgiven. And it’s not as though comics don’t leave things hanging as a general rule; maybe it’s that, with each of those books, the ends were so swift that it felt more unfinished than a cliffhanger (it’s not me, it’s them), or maybe it’s that, as opposed to Nicole Maines' Secret Six, I don’t see related projects from Rucka or Ram V already solicited, so that makes me worry a wrap-up sequel may never come (it’s not them, it’s me).