Coming of Age
Brian Michael Bendis Writer
Szymon Kudranski Artist
Brad Anderson Colorist
Dave Sharpe Letterer
Jamal Campbell Cover
Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair Variant Cover
Jessica Chen Associate Editor
Mike Cotton Editor
Brian Cunningham Group Editor
Superman created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.
By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family.
Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger.
Our cover shows one of Bendis' creations, Naomi, helping Superman fight a villain called the Red Cloud. It's a fairly decent cover, although it doesn't convey the clever framing device of this issue. Almost the entire issue is told through man-on-the-street interviews to a reporter who's trying to piece together the story of the Superman/Naomi/Red Cloud fight. And as a newspaper man myself, I found this rather enjoyable.
But we're not here for Naomi or Superman. The only thing we care about is the home page for the Daily Planet's knock-off Twitter account. And this is another very clever element of this issue, dropping tons of Easter eggs and clues for upcoming storylines.
The link to the Young Justice story is a nice reminder that this team did show up in Metropolis and made quite an impact before suddenly disappearing. The hashtag #LostInTheMultiverse sort of breaks the fourth wall, though, because there's no way that anybody on this Earth would know that Young Justice went bouncing around the multiverse. Unless that's just a normal phrase people say in this wild world of superheroes. Regardless, I did enjoy this page, no matter how small it was, and I'm looking forward to Young Justice actually appearing in Action Comics.
Next time, we'll return to Young Justice #10.
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