I would dearly love to know what Jiminez was thinking with this storyline. It just doesn't work, not on any level. My personal explanation is that Circe was behind the whole thing. She knows that she can't control Minerva, and she knows how effective the Cheetah's power is, so taking that power away from someone she can't control and giving it to someone whom she can is completely logical. She could conceivably talk to Uzkartaga, and she could soothe his ego and/or confound his senses to the point where Ballesteros' utter disrespect of the ritual doesn't bother him.
(Seriously: Ballesteros wants to be a badass and he can't even make his own kills? Pathetic!)
All in all, Circe would gain an incredible (and malleable) weapon against her nemesis and take perfect revenge against someone who crossed her in the process.
So why didn't Jiminez actually go this route with this story?!?
*sigh*
Oh well.
His reintroduction of Angle Man was cool. It's a very nice concept: Angelo is harmless enough that Diana wouldn't have to kill him, incorrigible enough that even she couldn't change him, and his power set means that he has a decent chance of actually getting away with his crimes. It's too bad that Angelo only showed up in YJ after this.
(even if the plant-god swings both ways, a marriage still explicitly excludes a male consort)
That's debatable.
I am hugely fond of the fact that Tisiphone!Minerva looks like a shadowy version of Cheetah!Minerva, and very little like Fury's manifestation of same.
That whole splash page is made of win. Seriously.
And on another note, superheroes in heels will just never not annoy me. (Unless they are crossdressing for justice. There's always room for crossdressing for justice. But this is not that.)
Well there IS an exception to every rule, of course.