Young Justice #11

Lost in the Multiverse Part 5

Brian Michael Bendis Script

John Timms Art

Gabe Eltaeb Colors

Wes Abbott Letters

Timms and Eltaeb Cover

Nick Bradshaw and Alex Sinclair 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 main cover prominently features Naomi once again, visually making her Wonder Girl's equal, although the text creates intrigue with Superboy. It's a fine cover, but Impulse feels like an afterthought. And it would be nice to move away from these generic poses and actually show what the story inside is like. But then again, we would need an actual story inside to promote.

The variant cover is pretty nice, but kind of weird, since none of the characters are the same size. Everything's kind of random and hodgepodge — except for the deliberate choice to make Naomi front and center. Tim is accidentally still in his Robin costume. And poor Bart once again is the smallest afterthought. But for this issue, as we'll soon see, that is quite appropriate.

Our story picks up where we left off, with Young Justice arriving in Naomi's hometown of Port Oswego, Oregon. Everyone is desperately hanging onto Jinny's truck, more or less freaking out. Bart is loudly pleading for this Earth to finally be the right one.

When they finally do land, they're all surrounded by scientists and Naomi. Cassie and Tim try to diplomatically introduce themselves, but Jinny interrupts them by swearing and demanding to know which Earth this is. Naturally, nobody knows how to answer this question, but Naomi reveals she does know who Young Justice is. She calls Bart Kid Flash before correcting herself and saying Impulse. She calls Tim Red Robin, but he obstinately insists she call him Drake. Suddenly, Naomi collapses and passes out, as she has come to the end of a very long day.

Our heroes are also exhausted, and since nobody knew what to do with them, Naomi's parents brought all the teenagers to their house to sleep for the night. All except Impulse, who mysteriously takes off for who knows where. His disappearance isn't acknowledged until the morning, when Superboy announces he's taking off to investigate the S.T.A.R. Lab creeps who sent him to Gemworld in the first place. Unfortunately, they trick him once again, sending Kon to Warworld this time.

And that's it. Bendis was so hellbent on promoting his original character, Naomi, that he insisted on inserting her into this already-bloated cast of characters. Naturally, this forces several characters into the background, and Impulse drew the short straw this issue. Who cares that he's one of the three founding members of Young Justice and we haven't answered any questions about him in 11 issues? We need to promote Naomi! And send Superboy away again ... Well, let's take a break from complaining and look at the new ads:

Diana's oldest enemy returns — and wants to be her closest ally! Wonder Woman: The Just War.

We have an ad for Watchmen ... even though it's like 30 years old at this point ...

A DC Nation interview with Grant Morrison on Green Lantern: Blackstars.

Next time, we'll take a quick look at Superman #18.