Young Justice: Targets #4

“Foreign Affairs”

Writer: Greg Weisman

Artist: Christopher Jones

Colorist: Jason Wright

Letterer: Wes Abbott

Cover: Jones & Wright

Variant Cover: Meghan Hetrick

Editor: Ben Meares

Senior Editor: Katie Kubert

Superboy created by Jerry Siegel

By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family

Our cover is a rather generic image of Wonder Girl, Superboy, Beast Boy, Stargirl and Terra fighting a horde of faceless goons in green armor. It’s … perfectly fine. But rather bland and boring. Much like this series. The variant cover doesn’t have Kid Flash on it, so I won’t worry about it.

This mini series essentially serves as a fifth season of the Young Justice animated series. We join the story on Nov. 11, almost two months after Superboy’s wedding. Beast Boy still likes to carry his therapy dog around with him everywhere, but he’s finally back doing missions, which is convenient because his ex-girlfriend, Queen Perdita, has just been kidnapped. Believing she’s being held in Bialya, Beast Boy gathers up the group of heroes we see on the cover, bizarrely dubbing them Gorilla Squad. Cyborg is now a member of the Justice League, so he can’t legally enter Bialya, but he sees nothing wrong with opening a boom tube to Madinat Altharwati for the Outsiders.

Even though the cover clearly showed that there were people wearing these green armor suits, in the story, these are Lex-Bots that our heroes can brutally rip apart with reckless abandon. However, there are too many of these robots for Terra to handle while the others rush inside a warehouse. So she calls for backup. Led by Kid Flash, the insanely named Mongoose Squad arrives via Boom Tube to help battle the endless swarms of robots.

And that’s all we see of Kid Flash in this issue. Much like in Young Justice: Phantoms, Bart is merely a background character with nothing interesting to do or say. Oh well. At least he was remembered. There’s also a backup story, but, unsurprisingly, Kid Flash isn’t involved in that, either. I don’t know. There’s nothing terribly wrong with this comic. But it just feels like another forgettable, redundant episode of the show. I don’t think this mini series will improve Weisman’s chances of making a fifth season.

Next time, we’ll return to Dark Crisis: Young Justice #4.