Is anyone else upset Tom King didn't have Silver Swan and Cheetah fight in issue 17?
I've been reading back through the Sovereign arc of Tom King's run recently and I can't help but feel this was a major missed opportunity.
If Tom King was going to make Vanessa a villain again after she was redeemed in volume 5 issue 750, then making her and Barbra Ann Minerva/Cheetah fight each other seems like the most obvious of set ups...
To explain my reasoning, let's take look at how Vanessa acts under Tom King's Pen...
Telling Diana how perfect she is...
Getting angry at Yara Flor for using Diana's name
Getting angry at Matriarch for hurting Diana....
Vanessa under Tom King is homicidally obsessed with Diana while at the same time showing a complete disregard for Diana's own feelings/desires.
Up against this, next we can look at Tom King's version of Barbara Ann Minerva (who is a reasonable continuation of how she acted under Cloonan and Conrad)
When Barbara isn't being driven mad with hunger, she and Diana come across as two people who were once genuinely very close friends but had a bitter falling out, though now they're working to reconcile (primarily because that is exactly what they are).
Vanessa by all rights should HATE Barbara from the bottom of her heart, because she would see Barbara as being unworthy of the time/attention/love that Diana shows her ("She came to rescue you, and you tried to eat her!") while in turn whenever Barbara looks at Vanessa she'd end up seeing many of her own worst qualities that she's currently struggling to overcome (jealousy, near mindless rage, a belief that Diana personally betrayed her simply because Wonder Woman chose to help other people first) reflected back at her.
Even leaving aside the obvious "bird versus cat" motif, I can't help but feel that Vanessa and Barbara seem to be perfectly established to have just some incredibly compelling dialogue if you had the two of the interact with each other.
Does anybody else wish we could have seen these two face off in issue 17/hope that we'll get to see them do so in some future issue, or is it just me?