52 Week Fifty-One

Homecoming

Written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid
Breakdowns by Keith Giffen
Pencils by Joe Bennett
Inks by Jack Jadson & Belardino Brabo
Colors by David Baron
Letters by Rob Leigh
Cover by J.G. Jones & Alex Sinclair
Assistant Editor – Harvey Richards
Associate Editor – Jeanine Schaefer
Editor – Michael Siglain

Our cove features an old friend — Red Tornado. This is an interesting, symbolic image of the time-traveling adventure Red Tornado is having with Booster Gold. Unfortunately, none of that applies to Bart Allen in any way, so we'll skip it.

We end this series where we began it — a large gathering of superheroes in Metropolis. This time, it's specifically to honor Superboy, who now has his own gold statue right next to Superman's. Wonder Girl is understandably having a hard time, made worse by the fact that Ralph Dibny recently died. Ralph and his deceased wife were unwillingly brought into Cassie's insane attempts to resurrect Conner, and now Cassie wishes she could apologize to Ralph.

I know that doesn't really look like Bart, but it is supposed to be him, talking to Jay Garrick and Wildcat. Sadly, we don't hear Bart say anything, nor do we see him attempt to reconnect with his old friends, Wonder Girl and Robin. Robin is asked by Jimmy Olsen why he changed his costume to just red and black, and Robin sadly looks at the Superboy statue and says, "They were his colors." Robin does try to talk to Wonder Girl, but she flies away before he gets a chance.

And that's it. From here, Bart went to work at a car factory with a jerk of a roommate, the Teen Titans pulled themselves back together, and nobody cared that Wally West has been gone for a year. But it was nice to see Superboy get the recognition he deserves. 52 was actually a really neat series, even if it didn't involve Bart.

Next time, we'll return to the Titans East battle in Teen Titans #46.