Young Justice #9

Lost in the Multiverse Part 3

Brian Michael Bendis Script

André Araújo (p. 2-11 and 15-18) John Timms (p. 1, 12-14, and 19-22) Art

Gabe Eltaeb Colors

Wes Abbott Letters

Timms and Eltaeb Cover

Nick Bradshaw and John Rauch Variant Cover

Brittany Holzherr Associate Editor

Mike Cotton Editor

Brian Cunningham Group Editor

Superboy created by Jerry Siegel.

By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family.

Our cover shows Young Justice preparing to face off against their evil counterparts on Earth-3. It's a perfectly serviceable cover — finally putting all these villains together in one image. However, nothing really grabs my attention. It's not off-putting, by any means, but it's just not that captivating. Plus, this showdown doesn't happen in this issue.

I snagged this textless variant from dc.fandom.com. It does exactly what a variant cover should do — experiment. It uses a unique color palate and portrays a ridiculous, yet funny and heart-warming scene. No, I don't think Bart would be THAT freaked out to be flying like this, but it is still a fun expression on his face.

This issue begins with the same introductory page as before, so we'll skip it. This comic also spends the bulk of its time telling the origin story of Teen Lantern, which I found rather boring and unoriginal. So I'm going to only focus on the final two pages, where Impulse is involved.

Batwoman has recovered from her injury sustained by being knocked out from behind by Impulse, and she leads Impulse and Robin to her Batcave to try to find a way to send them back home. Bart immediately rushes throughout the cave until he conveniently finds a thumb drive that he believes to contain the long-fabled Multiverse Map.

They plug the drive in the computer and sure enough, Bart was right. Stephanie explains that Doctor Fate gave her the map before Ultraman fed him to Gorilla Grodd. She says she has no idea how to use the map, but Bart believes he can get them all home. Tim, however, can't stop talking about how messed up this world is, so Bart agrees, decrying its lack of super-rabbits. Stephanie assures Tim that he doesn't need to feel obligated to take care of this Earth, but Tim believes they may have come here for a reason. So he tells Bart that before they go home, they're going to put their evil counterparts out of business.

I don't have much to say on this one. Bendis is once again awkwardly interrupting the action to explain who these new characters are — a side effect of trying to manage such a large team in a narrative with a breakneck pace. I was a little surprised to see the Multiverse Map actually exists and even more surprised to see how easily our heroes obtained it. I guess it's just time for them to go home.

There aren't any new ads, so that's it for today. Next time, I might look at Justice League #34, but I might skip it. We'll see. In any case, the review probably won't come for a couple of months because I'd rather wait for this issue to appear on the DC Universe app instead of buying it.